You may use your class notes and Feynman

sethg · on June 30, 2009

This is the sort of hack that Feynman himself would have pulled, back when he was an undergraduate.

henryprecheur · on June 29, 2009

Funny but sound like a urban legend.

abecedarius · on June 30, 2009

Not necessarily. Tests were on the honor system at Caltech (and I suppose still are). You typically took them in your dorm room.

CamperBob · on June 30, 2009

So there's only one class at the entire school, called "Google 101"?

abecedarius · on June 30, 2009

Heh. I remember one open-book midterm in particular: my score of 56% got a B.

Michael Nielsen's conducting a different sort of Google 101 here: http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/?page_id=503

buugs · on June 30, 2009

If it is true I'm sure that the student would have gotten at least a passing grade if was willing to risk using Feynman.

ruddzw · on June 30, 2009

Or would have no chance of passing without him.

Since it's an open-book exam, it's likely going to take a lot of thoughtful work.

quizbiz · on June 29, 2009

bloody briliant, a much better exam hack than pointless puns.

Semiapies · on June 30, 2009

He can't have been the only person in the class who had the thought. I would have; I just wouldn't have dared.

True or not, funny story.

kqr2 · on June 30, 2009

Even if they had explicitly written Feynman's Lectures on Physics on the exam, the students could have asked Feynman to give a special lecture which happens to cover all of the exam material.

varjag · on June 30, 2009

Half an hour, why it took him so long?

Semiapies · on June 30, 2009

Obviously, he made sure to use good penmanship.