Exercises for the Feynman Lectures on Physics

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1. klodolphFeb 2022
   Mathematics: From The Birth of Numbers—picked it out at a Barnes&Noble when I was a kid. It had so much in it. It didn’t go into depth but it had fantastic breadth. Reportedly the author spent ten years writing it. Feels like having a world atlas, but of mathematics.

   The Art of Computer Programming—NOT for the reason you expect. The series is simultaneously fantastic and terrible. Being able to articulate why the series just plain sucks even though it’s also really good at the same time. 90% of the time, if there’s something I want to look up in TAOCP, I can just go for a walk, realize whatever I’m trying to do is unnecessary work, and come back and work on actual important stuff I care about. The other 10% of the time, I get better answers from digging through the citations on Wikipedia.

   Exercises for the Feynman Lectures on Physics—Yes, the exercise book, not the lecture book. I know it’s not CS or math. The way that the problems build on each other is spellbinding. For example, there’s an early problem where you calculate the mean free path of air, but you’re not given a formula for it—you’re just given a series of problems which provoke you to think about the subject in a way that you can figure out a formula for it yourself.

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2. madcaptenorFeb 2026
   There is a book of exercises, which I've heard of but not looked at myself, titled "Exercises for the Feynman Lectures on Physics". I don't know if that will help you but it might be worth a look.
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3. codeliebMar 2025
   Feynman's introductory physics course also entailed a lot of problem-solving and labs, in addition to the lectures that are the basis for The Feynman Lectures on Physics. If you go to The Feynman Lectures Website (www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu) and you take a look at the "Original Course Handouts" you can see the homework sets, quizzes and tests his students took (which are not for the feint of heart - many of the problems are quite difficult), and also the labs they did. For those reading the book now, there is also a supplemental volume (sold separately), "Exercises for The Feynman Lectures on Physics" which includes most of the problems given to Feynman's students, and many from later years given to students whose textbook was The Feynman Lectures on Physics.
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