I view text books and lecture notes such as PhiSX as an effort to make available knowledge more easily accessible. The goal is that teachers will make use of good explanations or teaching methods, use them and thus spread them. On this page, I will point out my personal views of what I consider successful in this context. Some of these are novel, others not.

1. Build statistical physics on the concept of information theory, speak Shannon's entropy and the concept of maximum entropy,