Classes 2025-2026 Academic Year

I am planning the 2025 academic year. The structure of classes will be slightly different from previous years, and I have decided to offer two tracks of courses. I am also considering three new course offerings, scroll to the bottom of this page for description. Let me know if any of them are interesting to you.

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1) A Full Year Mechanics Course:

A full-year Mechanics course that allows for more in-depth physics discussions and proper use of my workbooks. This course may be appropriate for older kids and those who want to have an experience similar to their first-year high school physics course or homeschoolers who are taking this course in place of their high school physics course. ​

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Full-year mechanics courses will be offered at both the quantitative and advanced levels. The third workbook on Forces and Free Body Diagrams will be available by August 2025. The fourth book on Energy, Momentum, and Centripetal force will be available by February 2026, in time for the third trimester of the course.  ​

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Quantitative level: Grades 4-8 (ages 10-13) or students who are taking physics for the first time.

 

​Advanced level: Grades 8-11 or second-year students. This course will be taught at a very high level (AP and first-year college), and I will explore concepts much more deeply and vigorously. I will use different material for this course. If you are interested in the advanced course, DO NOT purchase my workbooks. I will provide you with the appropriate textbook and worksheets.  The students will do AP 1 level homework. 

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2) A Survey of Physics Course:

This course covers a much wider variety of topics at a faster pace. I have been teaching it for the past couple of years, and it has been very successful in introducing the kids to a wide range of topics, from mechanics to electricity and magnetism to optics to quantum mechanics and much more.​

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This course will be offered only at one level, based on my past two years of teaching it. 

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​​​All classes start on the first week of September and run through the end of May. I follow a trimester schedule to allow students to join in or drop out at specific times (end of November, end of February, and end of May). You will have to register for each trimester roughly in Aug  (for trimester 1), Nov (for trimester 2 ), and February (trimester 3). Each trimester consists of 12 classes, each running for an hour. The price of each class is $25/ hour or $300/trimester.​

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If you choose the $120/month membership option, I will give you access to additional classes for free, so your student may take up to two or three hours of physics per week for the price of one. In addition to joining the Physics Cafe.

 

 

How do I know which course is the best for my child?

The first decision you need to make is whether to take a full-year mechanics course or a survey course. The second decision is based on your child's Math level. For younger kids (8-11) who are not yet interested in using equations, I suggest the conceptual survey course. If your child is between (11-15), depending on their interest, they can either take the survey course or the full year mechanics course at an appropriate Math level. You can always write to me to discuss your child's specific needs. 

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I’m considering offering these new courses, but they will be based on demand:

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Physics of Sports—Discover the science behind athletic performance! We’ll explore the physics of swimming, high jumping, running, basketball, baseball, gymnastics, and more, analyzing concepts like force, motion, aerodynamics, and energy transfer in different sports.

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Journal Club – Each week, we’ll read and analyze a scientific paper, with one student leading the discussion to deepen our understanding of research in physics.

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Research and Experiments – This will be a hands-on, experimental physics class where we will recreate some of the most iconic experiments in physics history and present our findings.

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Each week, the students conduct a classic experiment, analyze the data, and discuss the underlying physics principles. For this class, the students need more help and support from the parents of older siblings at home.  

Some of the experiments we’ll explore include:

• Measuring gravity (g) using pendulums

• Galileo’s inclined plane and the law of odd numbers

• Determining the speed of sound with resonance techniques

• Index of refraction and disappearing objects

• Making a ripple tank to observe the reflection, refraction, and interference.

• Estimating Pi with Randomness (Monte Carlo Method)

•  The Mathematics of Music: Exploring Frequency and Ratios

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Let me know if you're interested! ​​​​​​​​​​