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The book was less of a traditional textbook than a collection of brilliant essays based on a famous series of freshman physics lectures that feynman delivered in. In the present work, we consider two examples from undergraduate. Feynman lectures on physics volumes 1 2 3 feynman leighton and sands. Pdf epub the feynman lectures on physics vol 2 download. I dont think there are really good analogues for that.
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