PHYS 100 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Required Materials

Required Materials

All required materials are available online

prelectures, checkpoints, homework (smartPhysics)
iClicker access (either though the iClicker Reef app or iClicker website)
access to lecture slides, discussion worksheets, and all other course information and notices (course website)
your course grade book

Recommended Materials

Any calculus-based introductory physics textbook that you like, as a reference (for example, any edition of Tipler & Mosca, "Physics for Scientists & Engineers" or Resnick, Halliday & Walker, "Fundamentals of Physics"). Older editions are often available for cheap.
OpenStax - University Physics I, a free online textbook
University of Illinois Physics 211 Exams (many of these exams are also posted online)

Optional Materials

Gladding, Selen & Stelzer Classical Mechanics, W.H. Freeman
(this is an inexpensive printed companion to smartPhysics for Physics 211, and is suggested but not required).
The bookstore sells a physical copy of the 2019 PHYS100 lecture notes. This isn't required, and all 2020 lecture slides will be available on the course website.