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Learn physics by doing the physics

Physics is the subject people most often say they understood in the lecture and could not do in the exam. That gap is not a knowledge problem, it is a practice problem: reading a derivation and producing one are different skills, and only one of them is what you are marked on. So the lessons here are things to change, run and be wrong about rather than pages to read.

Friction on a slope. Change the angle or µ while it's moving — the block keeps whatever speed it already had.

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.

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What people come here to do

You describe the goal in your own words and it asks questions back until the plan is one you would actually follow. These are the shapes that goal usually takes.

  • 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

Not a fixed syllabus — the plan is built around your goal and cuts what does not serve it. These are the topics it draws from, and whatever you get wrong comes back until it stops coming back.

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

Other subjects

The mechanics are the same whatever the subject — a slider is a slider whether it is moving a coefficient or a rate of return. What changes is what it is a slider for.

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