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(Metric!) exercises to accompany the Feynman Lectures on Physics

  • 17-04-2011 10:09pm
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    Eliot Rosewater
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    [Back Story]
    I'm currently studying for my second year exams of my Mathematics undergrad. I'm doing a bit of dynamical systems. I found the module boring, because it was presented with no recourse to reality, but I'm studying it now out of a book and some of it is simply great! Much of it deals with physics examples which, on the face of it, look really interesting - but I don't know any physics! But I'm going to change that!

    After some advice from de internetz, I took out Volume 1 of The Feynman Lectures on Physics. I read the first few chapters, and two of the chapters on special relativity. It's fantastic. I'm going to buy the book(s) (edition recommendations welcome!) and study it in earnest.

    The only problem is that the book doesn't contain exercises, which are essential, I find, for understanding. The publishers of the newest edition are bringing out a book of 900+ exercises this summer, but they'll use imperial measurements (feet, pounds, etc) so I think they're unsuitable, particularly as I've a bit of mechanics done already, using the metric system.
    [/Back Story]

    So what I'm looking for is a book of physics exercises, using the metric system. I know that's a broad thing to ask for. Ideally it would cover lots of introductory physics stuff - mechanics, heat, radiation, electromagnetism (to steal the subtitles from the Feynman books!)

    As you see, I don't know that much, but any advise whatsoever would be very welcome.


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