books
- Light and Matter -- physics for students majoring in the life sciences
- Simple Nature -- physics for scientists and engineers, with a nontraditional order of topics
- Mechanics -- introductory mechanics for scientists and engineers, with a traditional order of topics
- Conceptual Physics
- Calculus
- General Relativity
Extras
Who's Using the Books
Adoptions of Mechanics
Colleges and Universities
- Princeton University (Profs. Raval and Austin's sections of Egr/Mat/Phy 191)
High Schools
- Collège Madame de Staël, Geneva, Switzerland (Marti Ruiz-Altaba's 2PY.OS.1)
- The Sharon Academy, Sharon, VT (Steve Basham's Advanced Physics)
Adoptions of Light and Matter
Colleges and Universities
- Broward College (Prof. Forrester's Physics 1001)
- Cal State Monterey Bay (Prof. Daniel Fernandez)
- Indiana University of Pennsylvania (Prof. Stan Sobolewski)
- Sor-Trondelag University College, Trondheim, Norway (Prof. Erik Harborg)
- Winona State University (Prof. Nathan Moore)
- Pulaski Technical College (Prof. Joe McAfee)
- Central Queensland University (Prof. Geoffrey Pang)
- Cleveland Community College (Prof. Todd L. Cloninger)
- Eastern Oregon University
- Langara College (Prof. Hughes' Physics 1118)
- College of the Desert (Prof. Doug MacIntire)
- UC Irvine (Dr. Yodh's Physics H90)
- Mt. Hood Community College (Prof. Dave Faust)
- University of Technology, Mauritius (Prof. Hans Seegobin)
- Bentley College (Prof. Reda)
- Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (Prof. Claster)
- De Montfort University (Dr. Abdul Almiladi)
- Martin Luther College (Prof. Martin Sponholz)
- Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology, Beth Geng
- American Academy of Art (David Cushman's SCI101)
- Longwood University (Prof. Moore)
- Heilbronn University (Dr. Ritter)
- University of Hartford
- Shorter College (Prof. Chuck Pearson)
- SUNY Potsdam (Prof. Lawrence Brehm, used along with ActivPhysics)
- Columbia State Community College, Tennessee
- Evergreen State College (Prof. Allen Olson)
- Malespina University-College (Prof. Tom Leavitt)
- Henry Ford Community College (Prof. Michael LoPresto's short course on waves)
- Colorado State University (Prof. Martin Gelfand)
- Valley City State University (Prof. Gilbert Kuipers)
- Cuyahoga Community College (in optical technology)
- the University of Delhi (Prof. Pankaj Narang)
High Schools
- Watertown High School, Watertown, CT (Rich Brown's AP Physics B)
- Somerville High School, Somerville, Massachusetts (Mike Maloney)
- Collegiate Academy of Colorado, Littleton, CO (Adam Knudson's AP Physics B)
- Jasper County High School, Monticello, GA (Tyson Harty)
- Notre Dame Academy, Staten Island, NY (Betty Jensen)
- Marin Academy, San Rafael, CA (Jon Bretan)
- St. Joseph's High School, Barrie, Ontario (David Kay)
- Foundation Christian Academy, Valrico, FL (Matthew Bevlin)
- Brewster High School, Brewster, WA (Ann George)
- Eleanor Roosevelt, Community Learning Center, Visalia, CA (David Chandler)
- Permian High School, Ector County, Texas (Douglas Young)
- Holland Hall, Tulsa, Oklahoma (Paige Arnold's honors physics)
- Williamsburg Academy
- Penquis Valley School, Milo, Maine (Ken Worster)
- Troup High School, Troup, Texas (Blake Sansom)
- Brooks Academy, San Antonio, Texas (James Hulka)
- Lamar Academy, McAllen, Texas (Marc Braden)
- Fort Dorchester High School, North Charleston, South Carolina (Alan Johnson)
- Glenpool High School, Glenpool, OK (Gaylen Urie)
- Academy of Physics and Technology, San Rafael High School (Steve Temple)
- Mesilla Valley Christian Schools, Las Cruces, NM (Paul Vawter)
- Georges Valley High School (John Hodges)
- Boston Central Adult High School, Boston, MA (Jed Stamas)
- Liceo Scientifico I. Newton, Camposampiero, Padua, Italy (G.P. Chiaro)
- Minnesota Academy of Math and Science, Cotter Schools, Winona, MN (Mark Ordal)
- Piedmont Academy, Monticello, GA (Lynn Cashwell)
- Rockford Christian High School, Rockford, IL (Keith Jeske's conceptual physics)
- Central Virginia Governor's School for Science and Technology
- Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School (Woody Malot's honors/AP physics)
- St. Dominic Regional High School, Auburn, ME
- W.G. Enloe Magnet High School, Raleigh, NC (E. Woolard's IB/AP physics class)
- St. Mary's Academy High School, Englewood, CO
- Cannon School, Concord, NC (honors physics)
- Marymount School of New York
- Bais Chaya Mushka Girls' High School, Morristown, NJ
- Brenham Christian Academy
- the Athenian School (Mary Morey's Advanced Physics)
- Altamont School (Warren Kinney's AP-B)
- Henry Clay High School, Lexington, KY (Karen Gill's advanced physics class)
- Tates Creek High School, Lexington, KY (Scot Gill)
- Salem High School, Salem, MA
- Cascade Christian Schools, Puyallup, WA
- Gospel Outreach Christian School, Tacoma, WA
Adoptions of Simple Nature
- Princeton University (Prof. Duvvuri's section of Egr/Mat/Phy 191)
- Collège Madame de Staël, Geneva, Switzerland (Marti Ruiz-Altaba's 2PY.OS.1)
- Seton Hill University (Prof. Doug Koebler)
- McPherson College (Prof. Allan van Asselt's Physics 205/206)
- Texas A&M International University (Prof. David Milovich's University Physics I)
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Jon Levin's honors Physics 221)
- Queen's University Belfast (Dr. Fred Currell's E&M and thermodynamics)
- College of the Desert (Prof. Doug MacIntire)
- Mt. Hood Community College (Prof. Dave Faust)
- Martin Luther College (Prof. Martin Sponholz)
Adoptions of Conceptual Physics
- Maranatha Baptist Bible College (Prof. Paul Molitor)
- Buenos Aires International Academy (Brittny Acres' 10th-grade science)
- University of Kansas (Dave Besson's Physics for Poets)
- Southern Utah University (Prof. James Chisholm)
- Cumberland Christian Academy, Austell, Georgia (Lawrence Davis)
- West LA College (Prof. Sy Levine)
- Bryant University (Prof. Brian Blais)
- Lebanon College (Prof. Juan Pablo Fernández)
- North Georgia College and State University (David Moore's Physics 3000)
Adoptions of Discover Physics
- Ohlone College (Otis Walton's Physics 108)
- Harmony Academies
- St. Johnsbury Academy
- Montana Tech (a class for radiological technicians)
- Tarbut V' Torah High School in Irvine, California
- Amy Biehl High School, Albuquerque, NM (a combined anatomy and physics class)
Within each section above, schools are listed in reverse chronological order of adoption. Since the books are free, I don't necessarily find out when someone stops using the books, so as you go down each list, the chance that the school is no longer using them gets higher. If you happen to know that one of these listings is out of date, please let me know.
Alignment with California Standards
Light and Matter is aligned with California state content standards for high school physics (pdf), and is one of 18 texts listed by the California Free Digital Textbook Initiative for use in public high schools.
LaTeX Source Code
The books were written using LaTeX, plus a bunch of custom scripts. If all you want to do is read the books, you don't need to bother with any of this; each book is available as a PDF file from its own web page. The LaTeX source code, illustrations, and scripts are all publicly available here. The total size of the download is about 160 Mb. As an alternative to downloading the whole thing, you can look through the source code in a web browser here. The scripts are written to run on Unix; they might work on MacOS X, but I haven't tried. Licensing information is given on the copyright page of the PDF version of each book, and also in the photo credits section in the back.
To download the source code, you need to install free software called Git, e.g., by doing sudo apt-get install git-core on Ubuntu Linux. Then do this from a terminal window:
git clone git://lightandmatter.com/physics
This will create a subdirectory physics inside your current working directory, and then download everything into that subdirectory. The README file has instructions for compiling the book in LaTeX.