Educational Series: Best Free Physics Books

Physics Books

Physics is the study of energy, forces, mechanics, waves, and the structure of atoms and the physical universe.

All of the Physics Books featured below are released under an open source license.

	College Physics By OpenStax College (1272 pages) This introductory, algebra-based, two-semester college physics book is grounded with real-world examples, illustrations, and explanations to help students grasp key, fundamental physics concepts. College Physics includes learning objectives, concept questions, links to labs and simulations, and ample practice opportunities to solve traditional physics application problems.
	The Adventure of Physics – Vol. I: Fall, Flow, and Heat By Christoph Schiller (595 pages) It provides a simple, modern and vivid introduction to the motion of objects, of liquids and of heat. This book is not written with exams in mind; it is written to make teachers and students understand and enjoy physics, the science of motion.
	The Adventure of Physics – Vol. II: Relativity By Christoph Schiller (377 pages) It provides a simple, modern and vivid introduction, amazing on every page, with many figures and photographs.
	The Adventure of Physics – Vol. III: Light, Charges, and Brains By Christoph Schiller (445 pages) A physics textbook on electricity, light, magnetism and brains, for undergraduates and curious people, written to be interesting and challenging on every page. Includes many new photographs and challenges.
	The Adventure of Physics – Vol. IV: The Quantum of Change By Christoph Schiller (285 pages) It provides a simple, modern and surprising introduction to quantum effects in matter and light, with many figures and photographs.
	The Adventure of Physics – Vol. V: Motion Inside Matter – Pleasure, Technology, and Stars By Christoph Schiller (445 pages) It provides a simple, modern and vivid introduction to the motion inside people, animals, nuclei, and stars, including the physics of perception and the senses, of crystals and of elementary particles.
	The Adventure of Physics – Vol. VI: The Strand Model – A Speculation on Unification By Christoph Schiller (465 pages) This volume, in contrast to the five preceding ones, presents a speculative topic: after explaining why past attempts at the unification of physics have failed, it introduces the so-called strand model. The strand model contains general relativity, quantum theory, and the standard model of particle physics.
	University Physics Volume 1 By OpenStax (855 pages) University Physics is a three-volume collection that meets the scope and sequence requirements for two- and three-semester calculus-based physics courses. Volume 1 covers mechanics, sound, oscillations, and waves.
	University Physics Volume 2 By OpenStax (1018 pages) University Physics is a three-volume collection that meets the scope and sequence requirements for two- and three-semester calculus-based physics courses. Volume 2 covers thermodynamics, electricity and magnetism,
	University Physics Volume 3 By OpenStax (1361 pages) University Physics is a three-volume collection that meets the scope and sequence requirements for two- and three-semester calculus-based physics courses Volume 3 covers optics and modern physics.
	Calculus-Based Physics I By Jeffrey W. Schnick (267 pages) Calculus-Based Physics is an introductory physics textbook designed for use in the two-semester introductory physics course typically taken by science and engineering students.
	Calculus-Based Physics II By Jeffrey W. Schnick (332 pages) Calculus-Based Physics is an introductory physics textbook designed for use in the two-semester introductory physics course typically taken by science and engineering students.