This page lists major changes to this book with each marked with a 0.01 increase in the version number. Because content is added or modified frequently, updates do not appear on this page. Instead, a “Last update” textbox is posted at the top of each unit.
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| 1.0 | August 20, 2019 | Introduction to Physics is added to the MERLOT OER collection. |
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1.01 |
Summer 2020 | Changed copyright from CC BY to CC BY-NC- SA
Added green boxes with biology-related contents. Added Youtube videos. Added Phet Simulations. Added problems at the end of each unit. Updated the section on Mass and Inertia in Unit 7. Updated and expanded the section on Terminology Used For Some Common Forces in Unit 8. Changed titles of the second, third, and fourth parts. Changed titles of chapters called Unit 8, Unit 9, Unit 13 Added a section on Springs to Unit 9. Added Qualitative Examples section to Unit 11. Added a section on Explosions and Stability and Center of Mass to Unit 13. Expanded the section on Isothermal Process in Unit 18. Expanded the section on the electric potential of a point charge in Unit 22. Added Figure 19.9, Figure 22.Devils Tower Added the section on the temperature dependence of resistivity to Unit 24. Added Examples 2.4, 5.3, 7.1, 7.2, 13.3, removed 12.8 and added as 13.4, 16.2, 16.3, 18.2, 18.3, 18.4, 19.4, 19.5, 22.2, 22.5, 24.4 |
| 1.02 | Summer 2021 | Modified and edited content of all units to reflect improvements suggested by peer reviews.
Scanned the entire textbook with Grammarly to correct typographical and minor grammatical errors and punctuation. |
| 1.03 | Summer 2022 | Revised the problems at the end of each unit. |
| 1.04 | Summer 2024 | Added a “Questions” section to the end of all the units.
Added more problems to units 2 through 15 Added Alt Text or Image Description to all the images in the Questions and Problems sections in all the units. |
