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Learn physics by doing the physics

Simulation · friction on a slopeSLIDING
22°
Speed vs timeDistance vs time
a1.40 m/s²v0.00 m/st0.00 s

Gravity down the slope beats friction, so the block accelerates at a constant 1.40 m/s². That's why speed climbs in a straight line while distance curves upward. Distance is the area under the speed graph. Mass never appears in either sum.

Friction on a slope: change the angle or µ mid-slide and the block keeps the speed it already had.

Plenty of people follow the physics lecture and still freeze in the exam. Reading a derivation and producing one are different skills, and only one of them gets marked. So the lessons here are things you change, run and get wrong, not pages you read.

What people come here to do

You describe the goal in your own words and the plan asks questions back until it is one you would follow. Goals usually look like these.

  • “Pass a mechanics paper in three weeks”
  • “Catch up on a module after missing lectures”
  • “Finally understand why the normal force is not always mg”
  • “Get through first-year physics alongside another degree”

What a physics plan covers

There is no fixed syllabus. The plan is built around your goal and drops what it does not need. These are the topics it draws from.

  • Forces, friction and free-body diagrams
  • Kinematics and projectile motion
  • Energy, work and conservation
  • Momentum and collisions
  • Circular motion and gravitation
  • Waves, oscillation and resonance