Light and Matter - Open Source Physics Textbooks

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written by Benjamin Crowell

This web site is the home of Light and Matter Physics, a series of textbooks available online for no cost. There are six main textbooks:

Light and Matter -- physics for students majoring in the life sciences
Simple Nature -- physics for scientists and engineers, with a nontraditional order of topics
Mechanics -- introductory mechanics for scientists and engineers, with a traditional order of topics
Conceptual Physics
Calculus
General Relativity

The goal of the effort is to provide high quality textbooks available for free download and editing.

http://www.lightandmatter.com/

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Classical Mechanics - General Electricity & Magnetism General Physics - Curriculum - General Modern Physics Relativity - General Relativity	- High School - Lower Undergraduate	- Instructional Material = Textbook - Reference Material

Appropriate Courses	Categories	Ratings
- Physical Science - Physics First - Conceptual Physics - Algebra-based Physics - AP Physics	- Lesson Plan - Activity - Laboratory - Assessment - New teachers	Currently 4.0/5 Rated 4.0 stars by 1 person Want to rate this material? Login here!

Intended Users:: Educator
Learner
Formats:: text/html
application/pdf
Access Rights:: Limited free access; Electronic download has no cost. Purchase of a printed copy is available.
Restriction:: © 1998 Benjamin Crowell
Creative Commons - Attribution, Share Alike and Gnu Free Documentation License
Keywords:: Free textbook, Newtonian mechanics, curriculum support, electricity and magnetism, general physics, text, textbook, waves and oscillations
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created August 6, 2007 by Bruce Mason
Record Updated:: March 16, 2012 by Lyle Barbato
Last Update when Cataloged:: August 3, 2007
Other Collections:: The PSRC

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