Roger Freedman

Biography

I was an undergraduate at the University of California campuses in San Diego and Los Angeles, and did my doctoral research in theoretical nuclear physics at Stanford University. I came to UCSB in 1981 after three years of teaching and doing research at the University of Washington. I was a pioneer in the use of classroom response systems and the “flipped” classroom model at UCSB. I hold a commercial pilot’s license and was an early organizer of the San Diego Comic-Con, now the world’s largest popular culture convention.

Selected Publications

College Physics, 3rd edition (Macmillan, with T. G. Ruskell, P. R. Kesten, and D. L. Tauck), Macmillan, 2021

University Physics, 15th edition (Pearson, with H. D. Young), Pearson, 2020 College Physics for the AP Physics 1 Course, 2nd edition (with G. Stewart, T. R. Ruskell, and P. R. Kesten), Macmillan, 2019

Universe, 11th edition (with R. M. Geller and W. J. Kaufmann), Macmillan, 2019