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University Physics Volume 1
Copyright Year: 2016
Contributors: Sanny and Ling
Publisher: OpenStax
License: CC BY
University Physics is a three-volume collection that meets the scope and sequence requirements for two- and three-semester calculus-based physics courses. Volume 1 covers mechanics, sound, oscillations, and waves. This textbook emphasizes connections between between theory and application, making physics concepts interesting and accessible to students while maintaining the mathematical rigor inherent in the subject. Frequent, strong examples focus on how to approach a problem, how to work with the equations, and how to check and generalize the result.
(18 reviews)
University Physics Volume 2
Copyright Year: 2016
Contributors: Sanny and Ling
Publisher: OpenStax
License: CC BY
University Physics is a three-volume collection that meets the scope and sequence requirements for two- and three-semester calculus-based physics courses. Volume 1 covers mechanics, sound, oscillations, and waves. Volume 2 covers thermodynamics, electricity and magnetism, and Volume 3 covers optics and modern physics. This textbook emphasizes connections between between theory and application, making physics concepts interesting and accessible to students while maintaining the mathematical rigor inherent in the subject. Frequent, strong examples focus on how to approach a problem, how to work with the equations, and how to check and generalize the result.
(8 reviews)
The Adventure of Physics - Vol. VI: The Strand Model - A Speculation on Unification
Copyright Year: 2008
Contributor: Schiller
Publisher: Motion Mountain
License: CC BY-NC-ND
This book is written for anybody who is intensely curious about nature and motion. Have you ever asked: Why do people, animals, things, images and empty space move? The answer leads to many adventures, and this book presents one of the best of them: the search for a precise, unified and final description of all motion.
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The Adventure of Physics - Vol. V: Motion Inside Matter - Pleasure, Technology, and Stars
Copyright Year: 1990
Contributor: Schiller
Publisher: Motion Mountain
License: CC BY-NC-ND
This book is written for anybody who is curious about nature and motion. Curiosity about how bodies, images and empty space move leads to many adventures. This volume presents the best adventures about the motion inside people, inside animals, and inside any other type of matter – from the largest stars to the smallest nuclei.
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The Adventure of Physics - Vol. IV: The Quantum of Change
Copyright Year: 1990
Contributor: Schiller
Publisher: Motion Mountain
License: CC BY-NC-ND
This book is written for anybody who is curious about nature and motion. Have you ever asked: Why do people, animals, things, images and space move? The answer leads to many adventures; this volume presents those due to the discovery that there is a smallest change value in nature. This smallest change value, the quantum of action, leads to what is called quantum physics. In the structure of modern physics, quantum physics covers three points; this volume covers the introduction to the point in the lower right: the foundations of quantum theory.
(1 review)
The Adventure of Physics - Vol. III: Light, Charges, and Brains
Copyright Year: 1990
Contributor: Schiller
Publisher: Motion Mountain
License: CC BY-NC-ND
This book is written for anybody who is curious about nature and motion. Curiosity about how people, animals, things, images and space move leads to many adventures. This volume presents the adventures one encounters when exploring everything electric. The story ranges from the weighing of electric current to the use of magnetic fields to heal bone fractures and up to the understanding of the human brain.
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The Adventure of Physics - Vol. II: Relativity
Copyright Year: 1990
Contributor: Schiller
Publisher: Motion Mountain
License: CC BY-NC-ND
This book is written for anybody who is curious about nature and motion. Curiosity about how people, animals, things, images and empty space move leads to many adven- tures. This volume presents the best of them in the domains of relativity and cosmology. In the study of motion – physics – special and general relativity form two important building blocks.
(2 reviews)
The Adventure of Physics - Vol. I: Fall, Flow, and Heat
Copyright Year: 1990
Contributor: Schiller
Publisher: Motion Mountain
License: CC BY-NC-ND
This book is written for anybody who is curious about nature and motion. Curiosity about how people, animals, things, images and space move leads to many adventures. This volume presents the best of them in the domain of everyday life.
(3 reviews)
College Physics
Copyright Year: 2012
Contributors: Urone, Hinrichs, and Dirks
Publisher: OpenStax
License: CC BY
This introductory, algebra-based, two-semester college physics book is grounded with real-world examples, illustrations, and explanations to help students grasp key, fundamental physics concepts. This online, fully editable and customizable title includes learning objectives, concept questions, links to labs and simulations, and ample practice opportunities to solve traditional physics application problems.
(47 reviews)
Light and Matter
Copyright Year: 2010
Contributor: Crowell
Publisher: Benjamin Crowell
License: CC BY-SA
This is an introductory text intended for a one-year introductory course of the type typically taken by biology majors, or for AP Physics B. Algebra and trig are used, and there are optional calculus-based sections.
(2 reviews)