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Comment by Jach

15 years ago

I let slip to one of my engineering teachers whose wife also teaches physics at the school that I desired Feynman to teach me electricity and magnetism since I feel the class has just been equations thrown at me and horribly contrived situations with "story" elements* that don't add to understanding. I believe he said something like "Well, there's limits with Feynman too" and I said "Yeah, he's dead." So I have to make due with the Feynman Lectures Volume 2, which is excellent but clearly designed for students with a different background in math and physics. (It's still way better than Giancoli.)

Ah well, that's often the case in college due to pacing and how it's structured. You do enough to pass the class and if you care you'll go further and reach understanding over the summer.

In addition to Feynman's excellent lectures (there are more than the other poster linked) there's also a lot of general videos on the nature of science, what it means to be scientific, and about Feynman himself. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is one of my favorites: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srSbAazoOr8

* When you find a Karate Girl who can jump kick a charged pole into a perfect semi-circular arc without transferring any charge to herself let me know.