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College Physics

Multiple Authors, Openstax College

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.

 

University Physics Volume 1

Jeff Sanny, Loyola Marymount University
Samuel Ling, Truman State University

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.

University Physics Volume 2

Jeff Sanny, Loyola Marymount University
Samuel Ling, Truman State University

University Physics is a three-volume collection that meets the scope and sequence requirements for two- and three-semester calculus-based physics courses. Volume 2 covers thermodynamics, electricity and magnetism.

University Physics Volume 3

Jeff Sanny, Loyola Marymount University
Samuel Ling, Truman State University

University Physics is a three-volume collection that meets the scope and sequence requirements for two- and three-semester calculus-based physics courses. Volume 3 covers optics and modern physics.

 

The Adventure of Physics - Vol. I: Fall, Flow, and Heat

Christoph Schiller

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.

The Adventure of Physics - Vol. II: Relativity

Christoph Schiller

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.

The Adventure of Physics - Vol. III: Light, Charges, and Brains

Christoph Schiller

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 Adventure of Physics - Vol. IV: The Quantum of Change

Christoph Schiller

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.

The Adventure of Physics - Vol. V: Motion Inside Matter - Pleasure, Technology, and Stars

Christoph Schiller

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.

The Adventure of Physics - Vol. VI: The Strand Model - A Speculation on Unification

Christoph Schiller

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.

Light and Matter

Benjamin Crowell, Fullerton College

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.