Free Physics Text Book

[BobSnob]

Enjoy!

 

[Gnurb]

Thanks, bookmarked!

 

[nickmarine]

 

[crobusa]

Thanks, this will make good reading during winter break.

It's actually a 9 MB PDF file. The entire book is available on this page.

 

[nickmarine]

Hello,

Great stuff for the head and the mind too

nick

 

[no0b]

Text direct link to the book

 

[Orunitia]

Very nice! Now if we can convince our physics professors to use this book then it's perfect

 

[Analog]

thanks.

 

[patrickj]

thanks..

 

[weepul]

nice find! good to have a 2nd reference sometimes. ^_^x

 

[Cleaner]

I love to read textbooks! Thanks!!

 

[bigben06]

Great! I love physics.

 

[shadowfaX]

nice!

 

[imported_Pablo]

I was hoping it was in print form so i could burn it.

 

[Bonezilla]

OW!!! Grog brain hurt from look at book. Bad Book. Hurt Grog.

 

[Indnboy80]

Thanks for the post BobSnob!! Great Find!

 

[zerocool1]

I think this should be useful for next year.

 

[Dealmunky]

bump ^

 

[cogan]

Perhaps also of interest, a physics textbook co-authored by Gerald Sussman, one of the authors of "Structure and Interpretation of Compter Programs", a classic computer science texts. The physics book is called "Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics".

Both books are put out by MIT Press. And, as it happens, both are available online for free.

The Physics Book
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Read about the physics book here.

Read a review here

Read the book online here


The Computer Science Book
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Read about the computer science book here

This site has a link to the full-text of the book, as well as code and other links related to the book.

Enjoy.

 

[QueHuong]

Does this book offer the sources of where it got its info? Most science teachers and professors often discourage us from using online references since many do not offer where it got its sources and is therefore unreliable (it may be true, but there's no way to know that).

 

[troubledshooter]

Actually, I found "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" to be a horrible book, but then again, I didn't much like the class that went along with it ;p

To it's credit, it is used in the intro to CS classes at both UC Berkeley, and MIT, so it's certainly well reputed. I'm not sure I'd be interested in a physics book by the same author, though.

As to your question Mindstorm--it is exactly the same as the book you can buy from a campus bookstore or online--just published in HTML. It will be cited in exactly the same fashion as the printed text.

$.02

 

[RIGorous1]

Oh man this is hot! Worth an entire universe!

 

[InverseOfNeo]

Wow, this could certainly supplement my book when I take physics, thank you!

 

[p0ntif]

very cool! thanks!

 

[Silex]

Thank you, taking optics and thermodynamics next quarter! I hope it helps!