On-Line Physics Textbooks - The Light & Matter Series

Dr. Ben Crowell teaches physics and astronomy at Fullerton College in Southern California. He has published a series of physics textbooks under the Creative Commons License.

• Newtonian Physics
• Conservation Laws
• Vibrations and Waves
• Electricity and Magnetism
• Optics
• The Modern Revolution in Physics

There is also an instructor's guide, exercises and a lab manual. Test questions require a password. (We don't want students to have free access to everything now do we?)

Dr. Crowell has also published two other related texts: Simple Nature - an introductory physics textbook for scientists and engineers and Discover Physics - a conceptual physics textbook.

All of Dr. Crowell's published texts and software are available at: http://www.lightandmatter.com/index.html. You'll also find his web site interesting. It's called The Assayer - Book reviews and discussion for the free-information renaissance.