Openstax Astronomy is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of one- or two-semester introductory astronomy courses. The book begins with relevant scientific fundamentals and progresses through an exploration of the solar system, stars, galaxies, and cosmology. The Astronomy textbook builds student understanding through the use of relevant analogies, clear and non-technical explanations, and rich illustrations. Mathematics is included in a flexible manner to meet the needs of individual instructors.
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Full course with supplemental materials based upon the OpenStax Astronomy textbook.
- Subject:
- Astronomy
- Material Type:
- Full Course
- Provider:
- Minnesota State Opendora
- Author:
- JC Turner
- Kenny Tapp
- Date Added:
- 07/14/2020
Explore bending of light between two media with different indices of refraction. See how changing from air to water to glass changes the bending angle. Play with prisms of different shapes and make rainbows.
- Subject:
- Physics
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Author:
- Amy Rouinfar
- Ariel Paul
- Kathy Perkins
- Noah Podolefsky
- Sam Reid
- Trish Loeblein
- Date Added:
- 08/04/2020
Body Physics was designed to meet the objectives of a one-term high school or freshman level course in physical science, typically designed to provide non-science majors and undeclared students with exposure to the most basic principles in physics while fulfilling a science-with-lab core requirement. The content level is aimed at students taking their first college science course, whether or not they are planning to major in science. However, with minor supplementation by other resources, such as OpenStax College Physics, this textbook could easily be used as the primary resource in 200-level introductory courses. Chapters that may be more appropriate for physics courses than for general science courses are noted with an asterisk symbol (*). Of course, this textbook could be used to supplement other primary resources in any physics course covering mechanics and thermodynamics.
Table of Contents
Unit 1: Purpose and Preparation
Unit 2: Measuring the Body
Unit 3: Error in Body Composition Measurement
Unit 4: Better Body Composition Measurement
Unit 5: Maintaining Balance
Unit 6: Forces within the Body
Unit 7: Strength and Elasticity of the Body
Unit 8: Skydiving
Unit 9: Injury and Injury Prevention
Unit 10: Body Energy
Unit 11: Body Heat and The Fight for Life
- Subject:
- Physics
- Material Type:
- Textbook
- Provider:
- OpenOregon
- Author:
- Lawrence Davis
- Date Added:
- 04/24/2019
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.
Table of Contents
1 Mathematical Prelude
2 Conservation of Mechanical Energy I: Kinetic Energy & Gravitational Potential Energy
3 Conservation of Mechanical Energy II: Springs, Rotational Kinetic Energy
4 Conservation of Momentum
5 Conservation of Angular Momentum
6 One-Dimensional Motion (Motion Along a Line): Definitions and Mathematics
7 One-Dimensional Motion: The Constant Acceleration Equations
8 One-Dimensional Motion: Collision Type II
9 One-Dimensional Motion Graphs
10 Constant Acceleration Problems in Two Dimensions
11 Relative Velocity
12 Gravitational Force Near the Surface of the Earth, First Brush with Newton's 2nd Law
13 Freefall, a.k.a. Projectile Motion
14 Newton's Laws #1: Using Free Body Diagrams
15 Newton's Laws #2: Kinds of Forces, Creating Free Body Diagrams
16 Newton's Laws #3: Components, Friction, Ramps, Pulleys, and Strings
17 The Universal Law of Gravitation
18 Circular Motion: Centripetal Acceleration
19 Rotational Motion Variables, Tangential Acceleration, Constant Angular Acceleration
20 Torque & Circular Motion
21 Vectors: The Cross Product & Torque
22 Center of Mass, Moment of Inertia
23 Statics
24 Work and Energy
25 Potential Energy, Conservation of Energy, Power
26 Impulse and Momentum
27 Oscillations: Introduction, Mass on a Spring
28 Oscillations: The Simple Pendulum, Energy in Simple Harmonic Motion
29 Waves: Characteristics, Types, Energy
30 Wave Function, Interference, Standing Waves
31 Strings, Air Columns
32 Beats, The Doppler Effect
33 Fluids: Pressure, Density, Archimedes' Principle
34 Pascal's Principle, the Continuity Equation, and Bernoulli's Principle
35 Temperature, Internal Energy, Heat, and Specific Heat Capacity
36 Heat: Phase Changes
37 The First Law of Thermodynamics
Reviews available here: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/calculus-based-physics-i
- Subject:
- Physics
- Material Type:
- Textbook
- Provider:
- BCcampus
- Provider Set:
- BCcampus Faculty Reviewed Open Textbooks
- Author:
- Jeffrey W. Schnick
- Date Added:
- 10/28/2014
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.
Table of Contents
1 Charge & Coulomb's Law
2 The Electric Field: Description and Effect
3 The Electric Field Due to one or more Point Charges
4 Conductors and the Electric Field
5 Work Done by the Electric Field, and, the Electric Potential
6 The Electric Potential Due to One or More Point Charges
7 Equipotential Surfaces, Conductors, and Voltage
8 Capacitors, Dielectrics, and Energy in Capacitors
9 Electric Current, EMF, Ohm's Law
10 Resistors in Series and Parallel; Measuring I & V
11 Resistivity, Power
12 Kirchhoff's Rules, Terminal Voltage
13 RC Circuits
14 Capacitors in Series & Parallel
15 Magnetic Field Intro: Effects
16 Magnetic Field: More Effects
17 Magnetic Field: Causes
18 Faraday's Law, Lenz's Law
19 Induction, Transformers, and Generators
20 Faraday's Law and Maxwell's Extension to Ampere's Law
21 The Nature of Electromagnetic Waves
22 Huygens's Principle and 2-Slit Interference
23 Single-Slit Diffraction
24 Thin Film Interference
25 Polarization
26 Geometric Optics, Reflection
27 Refraction, Dispersion, Internal Reflection
28 Thin Lenses: Ray Tracing
29 Thin Lenses: Lens Equation, Optical Power
30 The Electric Field Due to a Continuous Distribution of Charge on a Line
31 The Electric Potential due to a Continuous Charge Distribution
32 Calculating the Electric Field from the Electric Potential
33 Gauss's Law
34 Gauss's Law Example
35 Gauss's Law for the Magnetic Field, and, Ampere's Law Revisited
36 The Biot-Savart Law
37 Maxwell's Equations
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. This online, fully editable and customizable title includes learning objectives, concept questions, links to labs and simulations, and ample practice opportunities to solve traditional physics application problems.
- Subject:
- Physics
- Material Type:
- Textbook
- Provider:
- Rice University
- Provider Set:
- OpenStax College
- Author:
- Kim Dirks
- Manjula Sharma
- Paul Peter Urone
- Roger Hinrichs
- Date Added:
- 01/23/2012
College Physics for AP Courses is designed to engage students in their exploration of physics and help them to relate what they learn in the classroom to their lives and to apply these concepts to the Advanced Placement test. Physics underlies much of what is happening today in other sciences and in technology, therefore the book includes interesting facts and ideas that go beyond the scope of the AP course to further student understanding. The AP Connection in each chapter directs students to the material they should focus on for the AP® exam, and what content — although interesting — is not necessarily part of the AP curriculum.
- Subject:
- Physics
- Material Type:
- Textbook
- Provider:
- Rice University
- Provider Set:
- OpenStax College
- Author:
- David Anderson
- Douglas Ingram
- Gregg Wolfe
- Irna Lyublinskaya
- John Stoke
- Julie Kretchman
- Liza Pujji
- Nathan Czuba
- Sudhi Oberoi
- Date Added:
- 04/29/2015
This 11-minute video lesson looks at Hubble's Law. [Cosmology and Astronomy playlist: Lesson 26 of 85]
- Subject:
- Astronomy
- Material Type:
- Lecture
- Provider:
- Khan Academy
- Provider Set:
- Khan Academy
- Author:
- Khan, Salman
- Date Added:
- 02/20/2011
This 9-minute video lesson discusses quasars. [Cosmology and Astronomy playlist: Lesson 35 of 85]
- Subject:
- Astronomy
- Material Type:
- Lecture
- Provider:
- Khan Academy
- Provider Set:
- Khan Academy
- Author:
- Khan, Salman
- Date Added:
- 02/20/2011
As a prerequisite to study this module, you need a background of high school physics; basic concepts of differential and integral calculus and vector methods. It might be a good idea to refersh your knowledge, if you feel that your knowledge of calculus and vector methods is inadquate then you need to consult any Mathematics book on calculus and vector analysis. However, you don’t have to despair as most of the content will be treated very simply that you may have no problem in following.
- Subject:
- Physics
- Material Type:
- Module
- Provider:
- African Virtual University
- Provider Set:
- OER@AVU
- Author:
- Sam Kinyera Obwoya
- Date Added:
- 03/13/2018
In this activity, students are presented with two objects that have different constant speeds and that will race each other. The students must determine which object will win the race, as well as either how much time elapses between the objects crossing the finish line.
- Subject:
- Physics
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Simulation
- Provider:
- Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
- Provider Set:
- Pedagogy in Action
- Author:
- Kathleen Harper
- Date Added:
- 11/12/2019
Junior Lab consists of two undergraduate courses in experimental physics. The courses are offered by the MIT Physics Department, and are usually taken by Juniors (hence the name). Officially, the courses are called Experimental Physics I and II and are numbered 8.13 for the first half, given in the fall semester, and 8.14 for the second half, given in the spring.The purposes of Junior Lab are to give students hands-on experience with some of the experimental basis of modern physics and, in the process, to deepen their understanding of the relations between experiment and theory, mostly in atomic and nuclear physics. Each term, students choose 5 different experiments from a list of 21 total labs.
- Subject:
- Physics
- Material Type:
- Full Course
- Provider:
- M.I.T.
- Provider Set:
- M.I.T. OpenCourseWare
- Author:
- and Technical Staff
- Lecturers
- Physics Department Faculty
- Date Added:
- 01/01/2007
The spring 2017 syllabus for the General Astronomy Course (AST 110), developed as part of the textbook free courseware initiative at Borough of Manhattan Community College.
- Subject:
- Astronomy
- Material Type:
- Syllabus
- Provider:
- CUNY Academic Works
- Provider Set:
- Borough of Manhattan Community College
- Author:
- Carlos E. Chaparro
- Date Added:
- 05/07/2017
This General Physics II course was built by Esperanza Zenon, Associate Professor at River Parishes Community College. It uses an OpenStax textbook that covers all content in the curriculum and also has supplemental resources and links to videos. Developed as part of the LOUIS OER Course Transformation Project at River Parishes Community College.This course is also available on Canvas Commons: https://lor.instructure.com/resources/358411abf7f54f4f917d31f683111cb2The corresponding lab is available here: https://lor.instructure.com/resources/39203105a96e4ba18b20d300fe6ebe57If these links do not work, search Zenon and find MASTER PHYS 2020 - E Zenon and MASTER PHYS 2020L - E Zenon
- Subject:
- Physics
- Material Type:
- Module
- Author:
- Esperanza Zenon
- Date Added:
- 08/16/2019
This General Physics Lab I course was built by Esperanza Zenon, Associate Professor at River Parishes Community College. It uses an OpenStax textbook that covers all content in the curriculum and also has supplemental resources and links to videos. Developed as part of the LOUIS OER Course Transformation Project at River Parishes Community College.This course is also available on Canvas Commons: https://lor.instructure.com/resources/ff3f959f016a4bf3bea8a9dc1727f0dcThe corresponding lab is available here: https://lor.instructure.com/resources/489d0b9636994c0eb51736f5804025c4
- Subject:
- Physics
- Material Type:
- Module
- Author:
- Esperanza Zenon
- Date Added:
- 08/16/2019
This General Physics Lab II course was built by Esperanza Zenon, Associate Professor at River Parishes Community College. It uses an OpenStax textbook that covers all content in the curriculum and also has supplemental resources and links to videos. Developed as part of the LOUIS OER Course Transformation Project at River Parishes Community College.This course is also available on Canvas Commons: https://lor.instructure.com/resources/358411abf7f54f4f917d31f683111cb2The corresponding lab is available here: https://lor.instructure.com/resources/39203105a96e4ba18b20d300fe6ebe57
- Subject:
- Physics
- Material Type:
- Module
- Author:
- Esperanza Zenon
- Date Added:
- 08/16/2019
SSAC Physical Volcanology module. Students build spreadsheets to estimate melt density at high temperatures and pressures from the thermodynamic properties of silicates.
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Physics
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
- Provider Set:
- Pedagogy in Action
- Author:
- Chuck Connor
- Date Added:
- 11/12/2019
This course provides an introduction to the universe beyond the Earth. We begin with a study of the night sky and the history of the science of astronomy. We then explore the various objects seen in the cosmos including the solar system, stars, galaxies, and the evolution of the universe itself. As an online course, it is equivalent to 6 lecture hours, and satisfies science requirements for the AA and AS degree. It is designed to be thorough enough to prepare you for more advanced work, while presenting the concepts to non-majors in a way that is meaningful and not overwhelming. We will consider the course a success if you have learned how to think about the universe critically in an organized, logical way, and to have enhanced your appreciation of the sky around us.
- Subject:
- Astronomy
- Material Type:
- Assessment
- Full Course
- Reading
- Syllabus
- Provider:
- Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges
- Provider Set:
- Open Course Library
- Date Added:
- 04/26/2019
A introductory look at our understanding of the universe, and how this understanding has changed from Ancient Greece to the contemporary views of today.
- Subject:
- Astronomy
- Material Type:
- Full Course
- Provider:
- The Saylor Foundation
- Date Added:
- 04/04/2019