Teaching may be a lauded goal for society, but like infrastructure, our society doesn't give many of it's resoureces to it. As a result texts are hard to come by. Especially iratating is the text book racket that follows the texas school board mafia. The government has textbooks it hand out for free. I love them because it assumes the readers know nothing and "floats all boats" as it were. One of my new favorites is the Department of Energy offerings. www.hss.energy.gov/nuclearsafety/ns/techstds/standard/standard.html
They offer physics, electrical science, thermodynamics, mathematics, chemistry, material science, mechanics, the list is endless. I am using the nuclear reactor technology text for my nuclear engineering course.
Another interesting free text source is the Navy online technical manual directory at www.hnsa.org/doc/
Life is good an the good things in life are free. Not only that, they are usually on pdf files.
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