Open Educational Resources (OER): Physics

This subset of the MERLOT collection features openly licensed textbooks for use by students and faculty.

The Open Textbook Library is a collection of open textbooks that features reviews written by professors.

The College Open Textbooks Collaborative is focused on driving awareness and adoptions of open textbooks to more than 2000 community and other two-year colleges.

The B.C. Open Textbook Project is funded by the BC Ministry of Advanced Education to provide flexible and affordable access to higher education resources.

This is a calculus-based physics textbook meant for the type of freshman survey course taken by engineering and physical science majors, or for AP Physics C. It uses a nontraditional order of topics, with energy coming before force.

College and high school physics textbooks that are free, customizable, and can be accessed anytime, anywhere. They also come with additional resources for educators and students.

The Motion Mountain Physics Textbook is written for pupils, students, teachers and anybody curious about nature: the text is full of telling anecdotes, captivating riddles, unusual tables, astonishing photographs and beautiful films.

comPADRE is a collection of resources that cater to both Physics instructors and learners. It is a platform through which learners and instructors are given the ability to publish and search for high quality resources created for their specific needs.

PHET provides fun, free, interactive, research-based science and mathematics simulations.

Physics Classroom is a collection of Physics tutorials that cover all topics typically covered in college level Physics I and Physics II courses. Newton's laws, vectors, momentum, work and energy, rotational motion, optics, relativity, electricity and magnetism are all represented in the Physics Classroom.

MIT has provided many Physics courses complete with video lectures, homework problems, and lecture notes.

Khan Academy offers a number of video tutorials spanning AP and College Physics.

This course provides a thorough introduction to the principles and methods of physics for students who have good preparation in physics and mathematics.