Feynman Lectures Physics, First Edition (19 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

paperback. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Corners are slightly bent. Used - Good.

Oversize Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Small ink mark to front cover.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. First Edition; Third Printing. Solid binding and clean pages. A touch of light shelf wear with sunning to spine with a few minor spots to fore edge and previous owner's name neatly inked to top of front endpaper, otherwise in Good condition. No highlighting or underlining. Not ex-library. ; 4to.

Unbound. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine box. First Edition. Fine. Set of six cassette tapes in original box and still in the publisher's shrinkwrap.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Just a few light pencil notes.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Profusely Illustrated with Black and White Charts, Graphs, Diagrams and Equations (illustrator). 1st Edition. Fourth Printing, July 1966. Soft Cover, 1" Thick (Thicker Than Hardcover!). Interior Clean And Unmarked. Covers Bright And Clean. Wear And Light Reading Creases To Spine Panel.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. First Edition; First Printing. Solid binding and clean pages. A touch of light shelf wear with sunning to spine and previous owner's name neatly inked to top of front endpaper, otherwise in Good condition. No highlighting or underlining. Not ex-library. ; 4to; 0 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: New. First. 320pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. 3 volumes - complete set. Fine oversized hardcovers in a Fine slipcase. The New Millennium Edition. First Printing. A beautiful set. Illustrated with numerous figures. Volume 1: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat. Volume 2: Mainly Electromagnetism and Matter. Volume 3: Quantum Mechanics. Please note that actual shipping rate will apply for this heavy set. No international shipping due to size and weight of the set.

paperback. Condition: Acceptable. First Edition. Book shows sizeable shelf & handling wear, including edge wear and heavy scuffing. Front cover panel is completely seperated at the hinge. Spine is cracked and heavily creasing, binding is intact but split in a few places. Pages are worn on their external edges. Interiors are intact with unmarked text/pictures, page binding is intact. Acceptable reading copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Thus. Frist thus, first printing. All three volumes of the definitive edition of Feynman's seminal 'Lectures on Physics, together with Tips on Physics: A Problem-solving Supplement to the Feynman Lectures on Physics. All three volumes have matching bindings of red cloth with gilt and white lettering some on silver and white relief front and spine. Red cloth-covered boards. Numerous charts, diagrams and tables throughout. 4tos. The supplement is bound in black cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine and is in its original glossy, illustrated dust wrapper and is 8vo. All four volumes houses in a matching red cloth slipcase with lettering matching the design on the volumes. All volumes in near fine condition - neat, clean, bright and tight throughout, free from marks, damage or inscriptions. The slip case is in almost near fine condition, with the corners being very slightly rounded.

Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Vol. 1-2. Owner's name on front free endpage. (physics) NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.

Richard Feynman's own office copy of his collected lectures on physics, with his ownership signatures. Quarto, 3 volumes, original red cloth. With Feynman's ownership signature and address to the front free endpaper of volume one, "R. P. Feynman. Calif Instit. of Technology Pasadena, Calif. 795-6811 Ext. 2688" and signature to the front free endpaper of Vol. II, "Office R P Feynman." Each volume is in very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box by the Harcourt Bindery. From the library of Richard P. Feynman. A unique example of one of the most important physics texts ever published. "The whole thing was basically an experiment," Richard Feynman said late in his career, looking back on the origins of his lectures. The experiment turned out to be hugely successful, spawning a book that has remained a definitive introduction to physics for decades. Ranging from the most basic principles of Newtonian physics through such formidable theories as general relativity and quantum mechanics, Feynman's lectures stand as a monument of clear exposition and deep insight. More than 1.5 million English-language copies have been sold; probably even more copies have been sold in a dozen foreign-language editions.ÂA 2013 review inÂNatureÂdescribed the book as having "simplicity, beauty, unity . presented with enthusiasm and insight.".

Early printings of each volume of one of the greatest physics books ever written. Quarto, original red printed wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in volume one, "May 5, 1982, To my friend, Al Seckel." The recipient, Alfred Paul Seckel, authored several books on the nature of illusion and perception and edited two of Bertrand Russell's works. An active figure in the Freethought movement, Seckel co-designed the "Darwin fish" logo in response to the proliferation of "Jesus fish" logos used on bumper stickers and t-shirts. Each volume is in very good condition. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell box. Exceptionally rare and desirable, only a handful or inscribed copies of Feynman's Lectures On Physics are known to exist. "The whole thing was basically an experiment," Richard Feynman said late in his career, looking back on the origins of his lectures. The experiment turned out to be hugely successful, spawning a book that has remained a definitive introduction to physics for decades. Ranging from the most basic principles of Newtonian physics through such formidable theories as general relativity and quantum mechanics, Feynman's lectures stand as a monument of clear exposition and deep insight. More than 1.5 million English-language copies have been sold; probably even more copies have been sold in a dozen foreign-language editions.ÂA 2013 review inÂNatureÂdescribed the book as having "simplicity, beauty, unity . presented with enthusiasm and insight.".

Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First edition, first printings of all three books. Complete in three volumes, with Volume I exercise book present. Bound in publisher's red cloth lettered in white and gilt; exercise book in stapled wraps. Very Good+ with fading at spines, rubbing at extremities with softening to corners, gilt lettering slightly oxidized and former owner's name on each front free endpaper and front cover of exercise book. "X" written on top edge of Volume II, former owner's name stamp on the bottom edge text block at Volume III. A beautiful set of the uncommon first printing of one of the most popular physics texts of all time, a compilation of the Nobel laureate's lectures at Caltech.

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printings of all three books. Complete in three volumes, with all three exercise books present. Bound in publisher's red cloth lettered in white and gilt; exercise books in stapled wraps. Near Fine with slight fading, light spotting and creases to spines, cloth lightly soiled. A beautiful set of the uncommon first printing of one of the most popular physics texts of all time, a compilation of the Nobel laureate's lectures at Caltech.

First edition. FEYNMAN?S LECTURES ON PHYSICS- EXTREMELY RARE PRE-PUBLICATION ISSUE. Extremely rare pre-publication issue of a section of Feynman?s legendary lectures on physics, namely that devoted to electromagnetism, from Maxwell?s equations to the optical and magnetic properties of materials, and concluding with four lectures on elasticity and fluid flow. According to the curators of Caltech?s Feynman Lectures website (), this preliminary edition was produced by Caltech?s graphics department between the end of the 1962-1963 academic year and the beginning of the 1963-64 academic year. It is copyrighted 1963, one year before the first published edition of the Feynman lectures, produced by Addison-Wesley. No more than 300 copies of this pre-publication edition were printed. This section of the Feynman Lectures is a record of part of the second year?s lectures, which were given to the sophomore class during the 1962?1963 academic year (all Caltech sophomores were required to take the class, regardless of their majors). The printed lectures were not a verbatim transcript of what Feynman said, but were edited by Leighton and Sands. ?We hoped to make the written version as clear an exposition as possible of the ideas on which the original lectures were based. For some of the lectures this could be done by making only minor adjustments of the wording in the original transcript. For others of the lectures a major reworking and rearrangement of the material was required. Sometimes we felt we should add some new material to improve the clarity or balance of the presentation. Throughout the process we benefitted from the continual help and advice of Professor Feynman? (Sands). ?Feynman?s lectures are as powerful today as when first published, thanks to Feynman?s unique physics insights and pedagogy. They have been studied worldwide by novices and mature physicists alike; they have been translated into at least a dozen languages with more than 1.5 millions copies printed in the English language alone. Perhaps no other set of physics books has had such wide impact, for so long? (Kip Thorne). ?Mark Kac, the eminent Polish-American mathematician, wrote: ?In science, as well as in other fields of human endeavor, there are two kinds of geniuses: the ?ordinary? and the ?magicians? An ordinary genius is a fellow that you and I would be just as good as, if we were only many times better. There is no mystery as to how his mind works. Once we understand what he has done, we feel certain that we, too, could have done it. It is different with magicians ? the working of their minds is for all intents and purposes incomprehensible ? Richard Feynman [was] a magician of the highest caliber?? (Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society of London 48 (2002), p. 99). Widely regarded as the most brilliant, influential, and iconoclastic figure in theoretical physics in the post-World War II era, Feynman shared the Nobel Prize in Physics 1965 with Sin-Itiro Tomonaga and Julian Schwinger ?for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles.? We are not aware of any other copy of this preliminary version of Feynman?s lectures having appeared on the market, and we have located no institutional holdings other than Caltech. Matthew Sands joined the physics department at Caltech in 1950, at the same time as did Richard Feynman. They had known each other at Los Alamos and at Cornell, but at Caltech their acquaintance matured. In the 1950s, Sands served on the Commission on College Physics, which had been established to work on the improvement of physics teaching. ?Until that time he had been teaching graduate courses and, with Feynman?s help, had restructured the graduate curriculum at Caltech. Stimulated by his work on the Commission on College Physics, he took a close look at the undergraduate physics curriculum at Caltech and didn?t like what he saw ? in the first two years, when students took chemistry, physics, and engineering, no mention was made of atomic physics, quantum theory, and relativity ? [Sands] felt very strongly that they should revise the undergraduate introductory courses in physics. At first, he got only a negative response from Robert Bacher, who was then head of the division of physics, mathematics, and astronomy [but Sands] ultimately convinced Bacher that it would be good to modernize the program ? [Bacher] thought that Matt Sands himself was too radical, so he asked Robert Leighton, a quiet conservative, and Victor Neher ? an old collaborator of Millikan?s and an excellent designer of pedagogical experiments ? all three to work on revising the introductory physics curriculum ? ?About half way through the year [1960] I [Sands] became very frustrated because Leighton kept coming back with a very traditional outline, and we could not seem to converge on a solution which would meet my requirements and his. One day I had the brilliant inspiration of saying, ?Look, why don?t we get Feynman to give the lectures and let him make the final decision on the contents??? ?So Sand went to see Feynman at his house and said, ?Look, Richard, you have spent forty years trying to understand physics. Now here is your chance to distil it down to the essence at the level of a freshman.? Feynman thought about it and said, ?Hmm! That might be interesting! But, you know, I have never taught freshman physics before.? Sands had seen Feynman lecture in graduate courses and seminars and was convinced that his style and thought would be very good for what he had in mind. From their discussion, Feynman obtained a good feeling for what might be possible, ?So he said he would think about it for a day or two and I saw him later on and he asked: ?Do you know if there has ever been a great physicist who lectured on freshman physics?? I said, ?I don?t know, but I don?t think so!? And he said, ?I?ll do it!?? (Mehra, pp. 483-484). Bacher initially opposed the idea, par.

First edition. First edition, first printings of all three books, with first editions of their respective exercise books. Signed by Richard Feynman in ink beneath on preface of Vol. I. Complete in three volumes, perfect bound in original red cloth lettered in white and gilt; exercise books in stapled wraps. Very Good, with light foxing to edges and shelf wear, spine slightly sunned. No writing or marks in text. Spine of Vol. I slightly concave. slight curve to boards of Vol. III. Exercise books are in Near Fine condition overall; Vol. II wraps slightly worn. A stamped envelope and a sheet of notes from the former owner laid in. A rare signed set of the important lectures Feynman gave at the California Institute of Technology, 1961-1963. Feynman received a share of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 for his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics. This set belonged to the noted physicist Peter D. Zimmerman, recently purchased at the sale of his estate. Each hardcover volume has Zimmerman's neatly printed name in ink on the front free endpaper, with his dates of purchase in 1964 and 1965. Zimmerman (1941-2021) was an American nuclear physicist, arms control expert, and former Chief Scientist of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. At his death, he was Emeritus Professor of Science and Security at King's College London. He graduated from Stanford in 1963 with a BS, a Filosofie Licentiat degree at Lund University in 1967 and a Ph.D from Stanford in 1969. An uncommon first printing set of one of the most popular physics texts of all time, a compilation of the Nobel laureate's lectures at Caltech. Scarce signed.