Principles of Physics Books, Documents, and Lectures

Title Year Description
A Physics Formulary A Physics Formulary Description An overview of physics in 100 pages. Mechanics, electricity and magnetism, relativity, oscillations, waves, optics, statistical physics, thermodynamics, transport phenomena, quantum mechanics, plasma physics, solid state physics, group theory and more.
Essential Physics I Essential Physics I 2000 Description Essential Physics 1, is an intensive introduction to classical and special relativity, Newtonian dynamics and gravitation, Einsteinian dynamics and gravitation, and wave motion. Mathematical methods are discussed, as needed.
Lectures on Physics Lectures on Physics 2011 Description Aims to fill the gap for life-science majors who haven't learned calculus or are learning it concurrently with physics.
Mathematical Tools for Physics Mathematical Tools for Physics 2003 Description Written for the sophomore-junior level, this book aims to not only bring physics students up to speed with the math required to answer physics problems, but also to teach the reader to understand what those answers really mean.
Motion Mountain - The Free Physics Textbook Motion Mountain - The Free Physics Textbook 2011 Description A project that aims to produce a simple, captivating and up-to-date introduction to modern physics.
Physics I: Classical Mechanics Physics I: Classical Mechanics 1999 Description Video course : a first-semester freshman physics class in Newtonian Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, and Kinetic Gas Theory.
Physics Tutorials Physics Tutorials Description These web pages contain short and straight forward tutorials for college students taking an "Intro to Physics class." Math students will find some of the sections in this site useful as well.
Physics Tutorials (Launceston College) Physics Tutorials (Launceston College) Description These pages include an excellent set of Physics tutorials covering a wide variety of topics. Many of the tutorials include animations and images and are useful to those of us who are visual learners.
Richard Feynman: The Messenger Series Richard Feynman: The Messenger Series 1964 Description Seven lectures by legendary physicists Richard Feynman. Presented by Microsoft Research, with subtitles; annotations and links.
The Particle Adventure The Particle Adventure 2009 Description An award winning interactive tour of quarks, neutrinos, antimatter, extra dimensions, dark matter, accelerators and particle detectors.