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|Description=A free 1600 page physics textbook written to be surprising and challenging on every page. | |Description=A free 1600 page physics textbook written to be surprising and challenging on every page. | ||
|Quote=Exploring physics with this text is more fun than making love. | |Quote=Exploring physics with this text is more fun than making love. | ||
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| + | |Mainurl=http://www.motionmountain.net | ||
|Author=Christoph Schiller | |Author=Christoph Schiller | ||
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Revision as of 22:55, 24 December 2008
Exploring physics with this text is more fun than making love. — Christoph Schiller
Overview
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.
Media
The text is a 1600 page pdf file; it includes 600 photographs and drawings and about 20 embedded films.
