Acknowledgements

This open textbook has been complied and adapted by Iftekhar Haque, in partnership with the OER Design Studio and the Library Learning Commons at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario This work is part of the FanshaweOpen learning initiative and is made available through a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License unless otherwise noted.

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We would like to acknowledge and thank the following authors/entities who have graciously made their work available for the remixing, reusing, and adapting of this text:

•  Adpative Optics by Michael Richmond is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
• Astronomy by Andrew Fraknoi, David Morrison, Sidney C. Wolff, © OpenStax – Rice University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
• Astronomy 2e by Andrew Fraknoi, David Morrison, Sidney C. Wolff, © OpenStax – Rice University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
• Contemporary Mathematics by Donna Kirk, © OpenStax – Rice University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
• Douglas College Astronomy 1105 by Douglas College Department of Physics and Astronomy, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted. Adapted from Astronomy 2e.
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• Introductory Chemistry – 1st Canadian Edition by David W. Ball and Jessie A. Key is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0, except where otherwise noted.
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• Physics by OpenStax – Rice University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
• Prealgebra 2e by Lynn Marecek, MaryAnne Anthony-Smith, and Andrea Honeycutt Mathis, © OpenStax are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

This book is a compilation of the resources listed above. Overall formatting changes to ensure ease of use and consistency were made. For more information see the list of changes made.

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