Open Educational Resources

General Physics Courses

• Fundamentals of Physics I - Open Yale
  This is a free and open course from Yale University, intended to be the first of a two-semester introductory course in college physics.  It contains syllabi and lecture videos from the original class, taught in 2006. Unless otherwise noted, most of the lectures and course material produced by Yale are licensed under a CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.
   
• Fundamentals of Physics II - Open Yale
  This course is the second half of Yale University's introductory two-semester course in college physics.  It contains syllabi and lecture videos from the original class. Unless otherwise noted, most of the lectures and course material produced by Yale are licensed under a CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.
   
• Physics - Carnegie Mellon University 
  This online course/ text was created as part of the Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University.  This course is licensed under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0 license. 
   
• UCI Open
  The University of California-Irvine has a large collection of open courses, containing full lecture videos. Each course is openly licensed under individual Creative Commons licenses. 
  • Basic Physics, by Dr. Michael Dennin
  • Basic Physics II, by Dr. Roger McWilliams
  • Basic Physics III, by Dr. Michael Smy
  • Classical Physics, by Prof. Daniel Whiteson
  • Math Methods, by Dr. Michael Dennin

Other Physics Topics

• Saylor Academy Open Courses
  Saylor Academy is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing free and open online courses to anyone who wishes to learn. Most courses include readings, assignments and quizzes, and some links to outside content. All content authored by Saylor Academy is made available under a Creative Commons CC-BY 3.0 Unported License. Selected Topics Include: 
  • Introduction to Electromagnetism
  • Introduction to Mechanics
     
• UCI Open
  The University of California-Irvine has a large collection of open courses, containing full lecture videos. Each course is openly licensed under individual Creative Commons licenses. 
  • Cosmology, by Dr. James Bullock
  • Einstein's General Relativity and Gravitation, by Prof. Herbert Hamber
  • Life in the Universe, by Dr. James Bullock
  • Science from Superheroes to Global Warming, by Dr. Michael Dennin

General Physics Resources

• Animations for Physics and Astronomy, Penn State Schuylkill
  This resource contains a variety of physics-related animations, covering subjects such as mechanics, vectors, electricity and magnetism, thermodynamics, waves, and optics. The animations are licensed under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC 3.0 Unported License. 
   
• LibreTexts - Physics
  LibreTexts has created a Physics library of resources, including texts, homework and worksheets, exemplars and case studies, as well as a bank of visualizations and simulations. Unless otherwise noted, the contents are licensed under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0 license. 
   
• Open Source Physics (OSP)
  OSP provides curriculum resources designed to engage students in physics, computation, and computer modeling - to provide them with new means of understanding, describing, explaining, and predicting physical phenomena. The various items are individually licensed. 
   
• PhET Interactive Simulations
  These simulations were created as part of an open initiative at the University of Colorado at Boulder. They are licensed under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 license. 
   
• PhysClips
  PhysClips is a learning resource from the Australian Office for Teaching and Learning that provides freely downloadable film clips and animations for use in Physics classrooms. Unless otherwise noted, the resources are licensed under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND 2.5 Australia License. 
   
• Waves: An Interactive Tutorial
  A set of interactive tutorials designed to teach the fundamentals of wave dynamics, illustrating properties of waves that are difficult to render in a static text.