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).
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3 Comments Add your own
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:
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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