Light and Matter Series
Benjamin Crowell
Open Access and Open Content.
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0.
A complete series of physics textbooks, that have been adopted at 15 colleges and universities, and 15 high schools.
- The Light and Matter series of textbooks are meant for a one-year algebra- or calculus-based course.
- Discover Physics is a conceptual physics textbook intended for students in a nonmathematical one-semester general-education course.
- Simple Nature is a physics textbook intended for students in a three-semester introductory calculus-based course.
Calculus-Based Physics
Jeffrey W. Schnick
Open Access and Open Content.
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5.
Calculus-Based Physics is an introductory physics textbook designed for use in the two-semester introductory physics course typically taken by science and engineering students.
A Radically Modern Approach to Introductory Physics
David J. Raymond
Open Access and Open Content.
Licensed under GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or later.
A Radically Modern Approach to Introductory Physics has developed out of an alternate beginning physics course at New Mexico Tech designed for those students with a strong interest in physics. The course includes students intending to major in physics, but is not limited to them.
Motion Mountain
Christoph Schiller
Open Access and non-commercially redistributable, but not open content.
"All rights are reserved. In particular, 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, is and remains free for everybody to read, to print for personal use, and to store and distribute electronically in unmodified form." - http://www.motionmountain.net/text.html
Motion Mountain aims to be a simple, vivid and up-to-date introduction to modern physics. 'Simple' means that concepts are stressed more than formalism; 'vivid' means that the reader is continuously entertained, motivated and challenged; 'up-to-date' means that modern research and present ideas about unification are included. The subtitle of the text, The Adventure of Physics, sums up these three aspects.