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Motion Mountain
This will be the last week I’ll be writing this blog. Rather than just point out new sites, I thought I’d cover some of my favourites, the best sites I’ve come across over the past few years.
Motion Mountain is by far the best open textbook I’ve come across. It’s so good because it’s not so different from any other textbook. That’s a higher complement than it sounds. Clocking in at almost 1500 pages in this 21st edition, the book could easily substitute any general physics book in a university freshman or advanced high-school course. It’s really fantastic that Christoph Schiller has decided to make this book available for free.
And the openness pays off. The first 360 pages are now in french. And feel free to translate to other languages.
It’s great that people like to use the web to create clever, hyperlinked and multi-media materials. But it’s also important to open-up standard, traditional materials. Congrats to the few trying to do this (credit to R. Preston McAfee for the open IntroEcon textbook as well).
