The following provides examples of existing OER that can be used for the indicated courses. You can find all potential OER identified for the discipline at Open Educational Resources and Physics. Please note that the structure presented here aligns with the Physics TMC.
Required Core:
Calculus Based Physics for Scientists and Engineers: ABC (PHYS 200S)
OR Calculus Based Physics for Scientists and Engineers: A (PHYS 205) AND Calculus Based Physics for Scientists and Engineers: B (PHYS 210) AND Calculus Based Physics for Scientists and Engineers: C (PHYS 215)
OpenStax University Physics is a three-volume collection that meets the scope and sequence requirements for two and three-semester calculus-based physics courses.
- University Physics Volume 1 (OpenStax, 2020) (CC BY 4.0)
- University Physics Volume 2 (OpenStax, 2020) (CC BY 4.0)
- University Physics Volume 3 (OpenStax, 2020) (CC BY 4.0)
Calculus Based Physics for Scientists and Engineers: A
- Classical Mechanics (Tom Weideman) – LibreTexts (CC BY-SA)
- University Physics Volume 1 (OpenStax, 2020) (CC BY 4.0)
- Classical Mechanics with Numerical Methods (Budarz)
- Mechanics (Crowell, 2019) (CC BY-SA 3.0)
- Calculus-Based Physics I (Schnick) (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- University Physics I – Classical Mechanics (Gea-Banacloche) (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Introductory Physics – Building Models to Describe Our World (Martin et al.) (CC BY-SA)
Calculus Based Physics for Scientists and Engineers: B
- Electricity and Magnetism (Tom Weideman) – LibreTexts (CC BY-SA)
- University Physics Volume 2 (OpenStax, 2020) (CC BY 4.0)
- Fields and Circuits (Crowell, 2020) (CC BY-SA 3.0)
- Calculus-Based Physics II (Schnick) (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Calculus Based Physics for Scientists and Engineers: C
- University Physics Volume 3 (OpenStax, 2020) (CC BY 4.0)
- Modern Physics with Numerical Methods (Budarz) (CC BY-NC-SA)
- Modern physics: With waves, thermodynamics, and optics (Crowell, 2019) (CC BY-SA 3.0)
More resources for Physics are on the OER and Physics Discipline page
Calculus Sequence
See full list with descriptions, comments, and licensing on the OER and Mathematics page.
Single Variable Calculus Sequence (C-ID MATH 900S) and Multivariable Calculus (C-ID MATH 230)
Single Variable Calculus Sequence
- No resources identified.
Multivariable Calculus
- Active Calculus (Boelkins et al., 2017) (CC BY-SA)
- Calculus Volume 3 (Strang and Herman, 2022) – OpenStax (CC BY-NC-SA)
OR Single Variable Calculus I Early Transcendentals (C-ID MATH 210) and Single Variable Calculus II – Early Transcendentals (C-ID MATH 220) and Multivariable Calculus (C-ID MATH 230)
- Contemporary Calculus I (Hoffman) (CC BY)
- Community Calculus (Guichard) (CC BY-NC-SA)
- APEX Calculus 1 (Hartman) (CC BY-NC-SA)
- Active Calculus (Boelkins et al., 2017) (CC BY-SA)
- Calculus Vol 1 (Strang, Herman) – OpenStax (CC BY-NC-SA)
Course Templates (Instructor account required)
- Applied Calculus (Calaway/Hoffman) – MyOpenMath (CC BY 3.0)
Multivariable Calculus
- Active Calculus (Boelkins et al., 2017) (CC BY-SA)
- Calculus Volume 3 (Strang and Herman, 2022) – OpenStax (CC BY-NC-SA)
OR Single Variable Calculus I – Late Transcendentals (C-ID MATH 211) and Single Variable Calculus II – Late Transcendentals (C-ID MATH 221) Multivariable Calculus (C-ID MATH 230)
- Contemporary Calculus I (Hoffman) (CC BY)
- Community Calculus (Guichard) (CC BY-NC-SA)
- APEX Calculus 1 (Hartman) (CC BY-NC-SA)
- Active Calculus (Boelkins et al., 2017) (CC BY-SA)
- Calculus Vol 1 (Strang, Herman) – OpenStax (CC BY-NC-SA)
Multivariable Calculus
- See above
Ordinary Differential Equations (C-ID MATH 240) and Linear Algebra (C-ID MATH 250)
Ordinary Differential Equations
- Elementary Differential Equations (Trench, 2013) (CC BY-NC-SA)
- The Ordinary Differential Equations Project (CC-BY-NC-SA)
- Ordinary Differential Equations (Wiggins) (CC BY)
- Notes on Diffy Qs (Lebl) (CC-BY)
- Differential Equations for Science (Lebl and Trench, 2022) – LibreTexts (CC BY)
Linear Algebra
- Linear Algebra (Hefferon) (CC BY-SA 2.5)
- Linear Algebra Bookshelf (LibreTexts) (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
- A First Course in Linear Algebra (Kuttler, 2022) – LibreTexts (CC BY)
OR Differential Equations and Linear Algebra (C-ID MATH 910s)
- No resources identified.
Programming Concepts and Methodology I (C-ID COMP 122)
- Introduction to Computer Science (Openstax, 2024) (CC BY)
- Introduction to Python Programming (OpenStax) (CC BY)
- Introduction to Computer Science and Programming in Python (CC BY-NC-SA)
- A Byte of Python (CC BY-S)
- Think Python 3e
- Python for Everybody (CC BY)
OR Any Introductory Programming Course such as C++, Python, and such that is articulated for transfer for the major
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