Collaborative Physics Textbook Project
This brief post presents the result of a project I collaborated on during my second year of university. I’m not the main author, but I was the primary collaborator and supporter, and I’m credited as co-author.
The project consists of three extensive textbooks on Classical Physics—each between 200 and 300 pages. Two of them cover most of Classical Mechanics, while the third covers a full undergraduate course in Electromagnetism.
The motivation behind such a pharaonic undertaking was the widespread struggle in our class to grasp the theory behind these subjects, combined with a lack of mathematical rigour that often left key concepts vague or incomplete. My friend Andrés, the main author, took the initiative, and I quickly joined him in the effort. I deeply admire his determination and drive throughout the project, since he worked out the great majority of the challenges found along the way.
The texts, written in Spanish and typeset in LaTeX, include detailed proofs for most of Classical Mechanics and Electromagnetism—most of which are incredibly hard to find in standard textbooks. The source code is publicly available on both my GitHub and his.
You’ll see that none of them is exactly light reading—they follow a fairly rigorous, mathematical style. In my opinion, the most comprehensive one is the textbook on Electromagnetism. That’s largely thanks to our excellent professor for that course, whose clarity and depth of explanation are strongly reflected in the text. All the teachers and sources are properly referenced in the bibliography.
Open Source project link
