Static Dynamic Electricity, First Edition (1 results)

Richard Feynman's copy of Smythe's central work on static and dynamic electricity. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with mathematic equations and diagrams. Signed in ink by Feynman on the front free endpaper, "R.P. Feynman 6688 Cal Tech Physics," beneath the previous owner's inscription. Feynman acquired this copy from a fellow member of the Caltech physics department, D.A. Guinier, after having met William R. Smythe during his graduate study at Princeton. This copy was then apparently given to Feynman's younger sister and world-renowned astrophysicist, Joan Feynman, who studied the origin of auroras and solar wind particles. In very good condition. Accompanied by a page of notes and equations relating to Harmonics written in what appears to be Guinier's hand. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery Professor of physics at Caltech and creator of the ion-velocity spectrometer, William R. Smythe quite literally wrote the book on applied electromagnetism. 'Static and Dynamic Electricity' examines the fundamental principles of electromagnetic theory and illustrates them through practical application to real problems in physics.