Does anyone know of an OA thermodynamics book that would be suitable for a one-semester, early undergrad course on the subject? Something comparable in scope/level to, e.g., Finn's Thermal Physics: thermodynamic potentials, magnetic work, at least some calculation of microcanonical and canonical probabilities, etc.
This textbook seems OK for what it does cover, but it doesn't go far enough:
https://openstax.org/details/books/university-physics-volume-2
And David Tong's lecture notes presume that the students have already had the kind of class I'm thinking about:
https://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/statphys.html
What is there in the middle?
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Blake C. Stacey
in reply to Blake C. Stacey • • •... Another "does this book exist" question: Is there an OA textbook suitable for a one-semester course on special relativity? Again, OpenStax provides an example that seems fine as far as it goes but that only goes partway:
https://openstax.org/details/books/university-physics-volume-3
What covers Minkowski spacetime, the energy-momentum relation, maybe a little about how "force" works in SR... Is there an open-access equivalent to Anthony French's text from back in the day when I was young?
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