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Physics Resources
Textbooks
Several open textbooks on a variety of physics topics.
Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) an OER search database with textbooks, courses and more. It is being developed by SUNY Geneseo's Milne Library. You can conduct a basic search or search by subject. Like all of these OASIS is constantly being added to.
Explore courses, textbooks, homework exercises and ancillary materials. Topics include: Optics TextMaps, Quantum Mechanics, and Relativity.
Lumen Learning provides a textbook on Physics with various chapters such as Two-Dimensional Kinematics, Magnetism, and Geometric Optics.
MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community.
A database of OER textbooks of various subjects and different creative commons licenses. Run through the University of Minnesota with over 1600 textbooks to look through. Open Textbook Library is constantly updated with new materials and editions being added regularly.
Milne Library Publishing at SUNY Geneseo manages and maintains Milne Open Textbooks, a catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff.
OAPEN has a wide collection of Physics textbooks
OER Commons provides a curated collection of physics and astronomy resources and textbooks.
Published by Rice University's OpenStax, these free College Physics textbooks can be read online, in PDF, or on an iPad.
Courses and Videos
Every course on Coursera is taught by top instructors from the world’s best universities and educational institutions. Courses include recorded video lectures, auto-graded and peer-reviewed assignments, and community discussion forums.
In this series on YouTube Dr. Shini Somara introduces us to the ideas of motion in a straight line. She talks about displacement, acceleration, time, velocity, and the definition of acceleration. Also, how does a physicist discuss speed as opposed to a police officer? And did you deserve that ticket? You can figure it all out with the help of Physics!
Find out more about particle physics and understanding the universe.
An excellent suite of tutorial videos explaining a variety of Physics concepts. Great if in class use or for students trying to master the concepts.
Fully online courses with video lectures, exercises, quizzes and online readings in things like Relativity, Classical Mechanics, Electricity and Magnetism, etc. that can be freely reused by instructors and reviewed by students.
Find online courses in quantum mechanics and magnetism the likes of MIT and Rice University or get an introduction to the violent universe from Australian National University.
Physics Girl is a channel created by Dianna Cowern about physics, astronomy and science-related topics. The show features fun DIY demos, unusual and cutting-edge research, space, and expert interviews!
The BCcampus Open Education OER by Discipline Guide lists a wide range of open educational resources, including textbooks and courses, organized by discipline.
Collection of PDF versions of textbooks on various topics. HTML versions are also available.
Labs and Additional Resources
Open access to Cornell University's E-Prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more
Share lab manuals with other physics and astronomy teachers. (Sign up required.)
Fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena from the PhET™ project at the University of Colorado.
Site dedicated to Physics teaching materials like simulations, models, and digital content and tools for all kinds of physics.
Indexes 80 physics and astronomy journals published by the American Institute of Physics as well as selected articles from physical sciences publications, including journals, conference proceedings, standards, and magazines published by AIP Publishing.
Open access publisher of peer-reviewed academic journals, books and data..
Hosted by the Wikimedia foundation, Wikibooks is an open content textbook collection spanning a variety of reading levels and disciplines