Open Text Book

A few open physics textbooks

June 24th, 2007

Here they are…

The Light and Matter series of physics textbooks by Ben Crowell (Fullerton College, CA) is used by a number of American schools, colleges and universities. Available under Creative Commons - Attribution ShareAlike (BY-SA). Ben also runs The Assayer - a listing of free books with user reviews.
Calculus-Based Physics by Jeffrey W. Schnick (Saint Anselm College). Creative Commons - Attribution ShareAlike (BY-SA).
A Radically Modern Approach to Freshman Physics by David J. Raymond (New Mexico Tech). GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL).

1. David | January 5th, 2008 at 5:17 am

The free physics textbook “Motion Mountain”, http://www.motionmountain.net/, was recently reviewed on Cool Tools, http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/002542.php
2. Jonathan Gray | January 5th, 2008 at 1:20 pm

Many thanks for this David! I came across Motion Mountain when I was looking for textbooks for this entry and thought it looked very interesting. Its freely available but not open, as indicated in the following notice:

“All rights are reserved. Commercial reproduction, commercial distribution, and commercial use, in whole or in part, is not allowed without the written consent of the copyright owner. On the other hand, the pdf file was and remains free for everybody to read, to print for personal use, and to store and distribute electronically in unmodified form.”
3. Adewuyi ismaila | March 14th, 2008 at 10:06 am

I need free subscribuction physics text book. thinksyou sir or maa

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