Case Studies/Motion Mountain - The Free Physics Textbook

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A free 1600 page physics textbook written to be surprising and challenging on every page.

Exploring physics with this text is more fun than making love. —

Overview

File:Http://www.motionmountain.net/IMAGES/minicover.jpg

Free physics texts are rare. This is one.


License Usage

The text uses a CC-NC-ND licence. There is a slight modification on the topic of usage, to close a loophole in the wording of the licence.


Motivations

Across all languages, physics is the science with the worst textbooks. This project wants to change this, by producing a simple, vivid and up-to-date introduction to modern physics. 'Simple' means that concepts are stressed more than formalism; 'vivid' means that the reader is continuously entertained, motivated and challenged; 'up-to-date' means that modern research and present ideas about unification are included. The subtitle of the text, The Adventure of Physics, sums up these three aspects.


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The text is a 1600 page pdf file; it includes 600 photographs and drawings and about 20 embedded films.


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