I disagree, I read the Feynman lectures in high school and learned a great deal. His presentation taught me more about how to think about these things then Giancoli did.
Giancoli better prepared me for what the standard format was for test questions, but it didn’t really articulate how I was supposed to use the ideas to generate new ones. Feynman’s style of connecting claims with whatever you happened to know, is extremely important. Giancoli doesn’t demonstrate this style quite as well.
Of course it was my first textbook, so I could go on and on about why I like it...
Actually, this was my experience, as well. But I did not truly learn the subject until I used a more standard text (not Giancoli, but similar). Feynman gives you ideas and intuition, not mastery.
I disagree, I read the Feynman lectures in high school and learned a great deal. His presentation taught me more about how to think about these things then Giancoli did.
Giancoli better prepared me for what the standard format was for test questions, but it didn’t really articulate how I was supposed to use the ideas to generate new ones. Feynman’s style of connecting claims with whatever you happened to know, is extremely important. Giancoli doesn’t demonstrate this style quite as well.
Of course it was my first textbook, so I could go on and on about why I like it...
Actually, this was my experience, as well. But I did not truly learn the subject until I used a more standard text (not Giancoli, but similar). Feynman gives you ideas and intuition, not mastery.