A complete two-semester, calculus-based first-year university physics course. Every chapter builds the ideas step by step with diagrams, works examples in full between topics, and ends with graded practice problems: Level A concept checks, Level B standard problems and Level C challenge problems. Read each chapter online, or download its notes as a PDF. The full step-by-step solutions to its practice problems come as a separate PDF.
The same notes serve teachers and students. A teacher can lecture straight from the sections and examples. A student can read them alone, trying each "Think first" question before reading on.
Syllabus, weekly schedule and how to study →
Chapters 1 and 2 are free
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Semester 1Mechanics, Waves and Thermal Physics
- 1Measurement, Units, Dimensions and VectorsFree
- 2Kinematics in One and Two DimensionsFree
- 3Newton's Laws of Motion🔒 Subscribers
- 4Friction and Circular Motion🔒 Subscribers
- 5Work, Energy and Power🔒 Subscribers
- 6Centre of Mass, Linear Momentum and Collisions🔒 Subscribers
- 7Rotational Motion🔒 Subscribers
- 8Gravitation🔒 Subscribers
- 9Simple Harmonic Motion🔒 Subscribers
- 10Elasticity and Fluid Mechanics🔒 Subscribers
- 11Mechanical Waves and Sound🔒 Subscribers
- 12Heat, Kinetic Theory and Thermodynamics🔒 Subscribers
Semester 2Electricity, Magnetism, Optics and Modern Physics
- 13Electric Charge and Electric Field🔒 Subscribers
- 14Gauss's Law🔒 Subscribers
- 15Electric Potential🔒 Subscribers
- 16Capacitance and Dielectrics🔒 Subscribers
- 17Electric Current and DC Circuits🔒 Subscribers
- 18Magnetic Field and Magnetic Forces🔒 Subscribers
- 19Sources of the Magnetic Field🔒 Subscribers
- 20Electromagnetic Induction🔒 Subscribers
- 21Alternating Current and Electromagnetic Waves🔒 Subscribers
- 22Geometrical Optics🔒 Subscribers
- 23Wave Optics🔒 Subscribers
- 24Photons, Atoms and Nuclei🔒 Subscribers