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'This high school/intro college curriculum is a series of three short textbooks (and a teacher's guide) for introducing thermodynamics in an intuitive and visual way. By drawing on analogies between thermal, fluid, electrical, mechanical, and chemical systems, and tying them together using energy and entropy, the Karlsruhe Physics Course helps students build a useful model for picturing the basics of physics and chemistry. It was developed in Germany over the course of 30 years, and has been translated into multiple languages, including English.'

'The Karlsruhe Physics Course is an attempt to modernize the physics syllabus by eliminating obsolete concepts, restructuring the contents and extensively applying a new model, the substance model. The course has been used, tested and improved for several years, and we believe that the time has come to make it known to a wider public. We introduce the structure which underlies the course and discuss some consequences for the teaching of various subfields of physics.'

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