Research Guides: Open Educational Resources Subject Guide: Physics

Open Textbook Library

The Adventure of Physics - Vol. 1: Fall, Flow and Heat
Written for anybody 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. 2: Relativity
Written for anybody curious about nature and motion. Curiosity about how people, animals, things, images and empty space move leads to many adventures. 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. 3: Light, Charges, and Brains
Written for anybody 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. 4: The Quantum of Change
Written for anybody 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. 5: Motion Inside Matter - Pleasure, Technology and Stars
Written for anybody 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. 6: The Strand Model - A Speculation on Unification
Written for anybody 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.

ConneXions

Note: Many of ConneXion's physics resources are based on the OpenStax physics textbook, and there are quite a few modified versions of the OpenStax textbook. We suggest that you search ConneXions if you are interested in viewing a modified version of OpenStax's physics textbook. The resources listed below are not the modified OpenStax textbook.

Music, Waves, Physics
the concept of waves as seen in sound
What is Physics?
Planck, Einstein and Science in Society
Discuss Einstein’s and Planck’s differing views about whether science research is removed from social and political forces
Ohm’s Law: Resistance and Simple Circuits
•Explain the origin of Ohm’s law. •Calculate voltages, currents, or resistances with Ohm’s law. •Explain what an ohmic material is. •Describe a simple circuit.

YouTube Channels

Minute Physics
Simply put: cool physics and other sweet science
Sick Science
Videos and cool science experiments from Steve Spangler and SteveSpanglerScience.com
Veritasium
The science video blog from atoms to astrophysics!
SciShow - The Fundamental Forces of Physics
SciShow's series on the four fundamental interactions in physics.
The Science Channel - Standard Model of Particle Physics
Science Theater
Watch Dr. Carlson risk life, limb, and dignity as he explains the coolest concepts in science.
eLearnin - Physics
Amazing Physics videos that cover all the topics ranging from simple Newton's laws to complex electricity and magnetism theories and understanding e=mc^2 or Schrodinger's equation.

Saylor Foundation

OpenStax College

College Physics
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.

Open Course Library

Exercises & Worksheets

LabWrite
Helps students learn science by writing better lab reports

Miscellaneous Courses & Resources

Hippocampus.org - Physics
All things physics - Videos, examples, lessons, and simulations as well as blogs and other resources for basic physics
Hyper Physics
Graphics with explanations
NOVA - Physics & Math
Articles, interviews, transcripts, expert Q&A

Simulations

NOVA - Physics & Math
Discover temperature, states of matter, the physics of stone arches, the speed of light, a sense of scale, the electromagnetic spectrum and the Doppler effect.
Science, Optics and You - Interactive Java Tutorials
Collaborative project of the Center for Integrating Research and Learning at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and Molecular Expressions.
PhET
Fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena for free. The open source simulations are written in Java, Flash or HTML5, and can be run online or downloaded to your computer.

Games & Other Resources

Fermilabyrinth
Games focused on particles and the forces between them.
Algodoo in the Physics Classroom

This module describes the benefits of incorporating sandbox style video games into physics instruction. Specifically, it introduces the use of the simulation program Algodoo.
Physlets
Educational physics applets designed to be scripted in JavaScript for use in quizzes, homework problems, and Just in Time Teaching activities.

Falstad - Math & Physics Applets
Educational java applets written to help visualize various concepts in math, physics, and engineering

Open Educational Resources Subject Guide: Physics