The book covers the last part of the MIT Online course on Electricity and Magnetisam (8,02). It overlaps with many other curricular courses at various colleges in the USA and India.
At the California Institute of Technology, in the 1960s and 1970s, the Feynman Lectures on Physics was compulsory reading for all Caltech students and consisted of Volumes 1,2,3 encompassing the course Ph1a,b,c and Ph 2 a,b,c.
Advanced graduate level concepts were taught using energy minimisation and with operator notation. Originally an experiment, the Lectures were continued thru the 70s. The set of 3 volumes came with supplements including the homework problems.
Many students found the homework problems difficult a few breezed through. The problems would be worked out in recitation classes by graduate teaching assistants. Administrators claimed it used a new pedagogy, where traditionally a grounding in ckassical mechanics was required prior to embarking on QM. The Pedagogical experiment was deemed a success by some Administrators.
Laboratory assignments included frictionless (air pressurised) sliders for momentum, Mossbauer effect measurements to detect minute shifts, Hall effect measururements etc, which were normally not the stuff of undergraduate labs at the time.
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Rahul Basu
A graduate of the California Institute of Technolgy, with various awards from India ( National Merit and UGC Professorship), and USA (NSF Undergrad grant)
