Introductory Physics I -- Mechanics and Thermodynamics is an online, lecture note style textbook provided for the benefit of my physics class here at Duke. All students or faculty who discover it online are welcome to use and peruse this textbook online or as a e-book on their own personal computer for the sole purpose of teaching or learning physics.

If you do this, I do ask that you to help others find the resource, as it is my goal here is to provide a professional grade physics textbook that can be used at little or no cost by all of the students of physics, all over the world, which does no one any good if they cannot find it.

All other use must conform to the Open Publication License published on this website, which prohibits making and redistributing printed or electronically reproduced copies of this work for your own use or (especially) for commercial purposes without my specific permission.

Introductory Physics II -- Electromagnetism and Optics is an online, lecture note style textbook provided for the benefit of my physics class here at Duke. All students or faculty who discover it online are welcome to use and peruse this textbook online or as a e-book on their own personal computer for the sole purpose of teaching or learning physics.

If you do this, I do ask that you to help others find the resource, as it is my goal here is to provide a professional grade physics textbook that can be used at little or no cost by all of the students of physics, all over the world, which does no one any good if they cannot find it.

All other use must conform to the Open Publication License published on this website, which prohibits making and redistributing printed or electronically reproduced copies of this work for your own use or (especially) for commercial purposes without my specific permission.

Math for the Physical Sciences is an online, lecture note style textbook provided for the benefit of my physics classes here at Duke. All students or faculty who discover it online are welcome to use and peruse this textbook online or as a e-book on their own personal computer for the sole purpose of teaching or learning physics.

All other use must conform to the Open Publication License published on this website, which prohibits making and redistributing printed or electronically reproduced copies of this work for your own use or commercial purposes.

Classical Electrodynamics is an online, lecture note style textbook provided for the benefit of my physics classes here at Duke. All students or faculty who discover it online are welcome to use and peruse this textbook online or as a e-book on their own personal computer for the sole purpose of teaching or learning physics.

All other use must conform to the Open Publication License published on this website, which prohibits making and redistributing printed or electronically reproduced copies of this work for your own use or commercial purposes.

Note that this textbook is loosely derived from several sources, particularly J. D. Jackson's Classical Electrodynamics, 2nd and 3rd editions (for which it serves as a study companion that can in a pinch stand alone). However, it is significantly augmented in many places, most notably in its discussion of vector spherical harmonics and Hansen functions, which is derived from Larry Biedenharn's notes on the subject, and in its discussion of radiation reaction and both the Dirac and the Wheeler and Feynman papers. It has also been laboriously converted so that its units are SI throughout, where Jackson is only half converted from the Gaussian units of its early editions.

It also has significantly more material supporting the learning of the required mathematics by the student. Perhaps when Jackson's original book was written, one could be confident that a physics graduate student was versed in tensors and number theory, in partial differential equations and vector calculus. It is at least my experience that this is no longer particularly likely to be so (with a few welcome exceptions in any given class, of course). Tensors and tensor concepts such as outer products and dyads in particular are simply no longer taught at all to most physics majors, which makes learning their use and notation in e.g. relativity theory quite a chore. I have therefore included sections that review the ideas underlying tensors in some detail, as well as sections that review e.g. contour integration and complex variables for students that might be weak there.

For better or worse, classical electrodynamics at the graduate level always ends up being a course in remedial mathematics as much as it ever is in physics, and this textbook attempts in its own small way to give students the resources they need to learn what they are missing on their own without wasting valuable classroom time.

Physics 231 Notes (Mathematical Methods of Physics) is provided for pretty much anyone. These are old lecture notes for the Math 231 course I taught for a year or two. They are obsolete in the sense that they will be subsumed directly into the Classical Electrodynamics book and/or the Mathematics book.

Syllabus for Introductory Physics I (41) is provided for the benefit of my current (fall 2005) Duke Physics Class. Others who discover it online are welcome to use and peruse it and associated resources online for the purpose of teaching or learning physics. All other use must conform to the Open Publication License published on this website.

Syllabus for Introductory Physics II (42) is provided for the benefit of my current (spring 2007) Duke Physics Class. Others who discover it online are welcome to use and peruse it and associated resources online for the purpose of teaching or learning physics. All other use must conform to the Open Publication License published on this website.

Physics 53 Syllabus is provided for the benefit of the students taking Physics 53 from me during the regular semester at Duke. Others who discover it online are welcome to use and peruse it and associated resources online for the purpose of teaching or learning physics.

This Syllabus is provided for the benefit of the students taking Physics 54 from me at Duke during the regular semester. Others who discover it online are welcome to use and peruse it and associated resources online for the purpose of teaching or learning physics.

This Syllabus is provided for the benefit of the students taking Physics 54, summer session, at the Duke Marine Biology program in Beaufort. Others who discover it online are welcome to use and peruse it and associated resources online for the purpose of teaching or learning physics.

Review Guide and Problems for Introductory Physics is a collection of problems that have been given as quiz questions, hour exam question, final exam questions, or homework in various physics classes of years past. At Duke the course numbers they embrace include 41, 51, and 53 (and will likely be of some use to students taking 61 and part of 62 and 63 in the new schema). At other schools the numbering will be different and the usefulness of the problems will need to be determined by looking them over.

These problems are made openly and freely available to all students or instructors of physics at Duke or elsewhere subject to the conditions in the Open Publication License contained in the document itself. Basically this prohibits reselling any portion of the document for a profit (without arranging to give me some) and has a suggestion for how truly ethical students or instructors can make a small contribution to my physical well-being if the spirit so moves them.