Active learning style textbook aimed at second-year dynamics (classical mechanics) undergraduate courses
This textbook is a work in progress and will follow a similar format as the first-year active learning textbook, Introductory Physics: Building Models to Describe Our World. All latex files will be uploaded to this repository in the near future. At present, this repository contains:
- PDF copy of the in-progress textbook
- Example problems using Jupyter notebooks for plotting graphs
- Videos demonstrating common mathematical concepts or tricks when solving problems
The Textbook is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY-SA-NC). Materials can be used, shared, and adapted with credit to the authors, but materials should not be used for commercial purposes.
All Jupyter notebooks are fair use (CC0).
All videos are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC-BY-NC-ND). Videos can be used for non-commercial purposes and must remain unaltered. Video credits to Lance Schonberg and Sarah Sadavoy.
August 20, 2025: An updated PDF of the textbook uploaded. This version corrects some formatting errors and typos.
August 30, 2023: PDF of the textbook uploaded
August 25, 2023: Video file created and links to mathematical concept videos added
August 24, 2023: Jupyter Notebooks uploaded
August 20, 2024: Update to the textbook to improve alterntive text to all figures, correct some typos, and fix some LaTeX formatting.