Open Educational Resources

The Environmental Politics and Policy of Western Public Lands

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial) English

Subject(s): Environmental policy and protocols

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 14/03/2023

In this volume, Erika Allen Wolters and Brent Steel have brought together the experts who can explain the evolution of public lands policies and politics in all their complexities. While their subject is complex, their prose is clear, and while their subject is torn by some of the most viciously self-interested, deceitful arguments in politics today, their prose is calm, factual, and evenhanded. No one should underestimate what a rare and valuable gift this is.

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Intermediate Fluid Mechanics

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike) English

Subject(s): Physics: Fluid mechanics

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 14/03/2023

This book is meant to be a second course in fluid mechanics that stresses applications dealing with external potential flows and intermediate viscous flows. Students are expected to have some background in some of the fundamental concepts of the definition of a fluid, hydrostatics, use of control volume conservation principles, initial exposure to the Navier-Stokes equations, and some elements of flow kinematics, such as streamlines and vorticity. It is not meant to be an in-depth study of potential flow or viscous flow, but is meant to expose students to additional analysis techniques for both of these categories of flows. We will see applications to aerodynamics, with analysis methods able to determine forces on arbitrary bodies. We will also examine some of the exact solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations based on classical fluid mechanics. Finally we will explore the complexities of turbulent flows and how for boundary layer flows one can predict drag forces. This compilation is drafted from notes used in the course Intermediate Fluid Mechanics, offered to seniors and first year graduate students who have a background in mechanical engineering or a closely related area.

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All Things Flow

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial) English

Subject(s): Physics: Fluid mechanics

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 14/03/2023

The current online version of this book is available free at http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/salty/all-things-flow-fluid-mechanics-for-the-natural-sciences/.

A print version can be purchased at https://www.lulu.com/shop/william-smyth/all-things-flow-fluid-mechanics-for-the-natural-sciences/paperback/product-24248422.html?page=1&pageSize=4

State and Local Government and Politics

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike) English

Author(s): Christopher A. Simon, Brent S. Steel, Nicholas P. Lovrich

Subject(s): Regional, state and other local government

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 14/03/2023

This book is a collective effort to understand and apply current conceptualizations of sustainability to a study of state and local government. It is an attempt to focus our attention on a basic understanding of the time-tested institutions and guiding principles likely to take society and governance towards greater advancement. Our work is, however, tempered by a developing understanding of smart growth — growth in productive capacity, quality of life and social justice that does not necessitate large-scale destructive or extractive activity. The growth sought produces widespread mutual benefit, is prudent in design and thoughtful in execution. The growth in question here is mindful of the past, yet builds better lives and futures for our posterity.

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Marine Law and Policy for Scientists and Managers

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial) English

Subject(s): International law, transport and commerce: maritime law

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 14/03/2023

This open educational resource is designed for use by undergraduate and graduate ocean science, natural resource, fisheries and wildlife, and environmental policy students enrolled in a ten-week academic quarter. The purpose of this project is to provide students and non-law professionals with a freely accessible, clearly written guide to support engaging and effective learning. As such, the book serves as a gateway and an invitation to become a well informed, committed and involved ocean citizen as well as to explore the field beyond our course study.

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General Microbiology

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial) English

Subject(s): Microbiology (non-medical)

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 14/03/2023

Welcome to the wonderful world of microbiology! Yay! So. What is microbiology? If we break the word down it translates to “the study of small life,” where the small life refers to microorganisms or microbes. But who are the microbes? And how small are they?

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Entomology 311 Lab Manual

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Subject(s): Insects (entomology)

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 14/03/2023

Labs in this book supplement the information gained in lecture, as well as providing some perspective and experience with hands-on applications of ideas in pest management. The labs are presented in week-by-week order, so the pre-labs and reading for week 1 are labeled “Pre-Lab 1” and “Week 1 Reading”.

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Business Writing Style Guide

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike) English

Subject(s): Writing and editing guides

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 14/03/2023

In light of the cost of textbooks and education in general, we undertook this project to create a free resource to be used broadly by students in a business context. We wanted to provide comprehensive coverage of the writing process, but keep our topics relevant to business education. We hope that this textbook provides equal value to both non- and native-English learners alike. Just like we acknowledge that students will continue to develop their writing skills, we expect this project to challenge and further our own skills as writers.

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Intermediate Microeconomics

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike) English

Subject(s): Microeconomics

Institution(s): Oregon State University

Last updated: 14/03/2023

Intermediate Microeconomics is a comprehensive microeconomic theory text that uses real world policy questions to motivate and illustrate the material in each chapter. Intermediate Microeconomics is an approachable yet rigorous textbook that covers the entire scope of traditional microeconomic theory and includes two mathematical approaches, allowing instructors to teach the material with or without calculus. With real-world policy topics as an entrée into each subject, Intermediate Microeconomics will help students engage with the material and facilitate learning not only the concepts, but their importance and application as well.

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Civil Rights and Liberties

CC BY (Attribution) English

Author(s): Collected works

Editor(s): Rorie Spill Solberg

Subject(s): Legal systems: courts and procedures, Human rights, civil rights

Institution(s): Oregon State University

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 09/03/2023

This volume focuses on the constitutional doctrine and law in the areas of civil rights and liberties. It contains excerpts of landmark cases covering the first amendment, second amendment, fourteenth amendment and the right to privacy. The excerpts include the constitutional issues in these cases that are related to civil rights and liberties with other questions of law and dicta omitted.

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