Everyday Physics in Motion
Understand the hidden physical forces that shape your daily routine, from driving on wet roads to lifting heavy boxes safely. Learn how momentum, leverage, heat transfer, and impact absorption dictate how the objects around you work. Walk away with practical intuition to predict motion, use tools efficiently, and solve common physical problems.
Like Duolingo, but for Everyday Physics in Motion. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
A short one: 11 levels across 2 sections, about 22 minutes end to end, roughly 4 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Mastering Motion and Balance and Managing Heat and Energy. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Everyday Physics in Motion
- An object keeps traveling at its current speed until an external force pushes or pulls on it
- When brakes slow the car, loose objects lack sufficient grip to decelerate at the same rate and continue forward
- Braking distance is proportional to the square of your speed, not your speed alone
- Doubling your speed multiplies the stopping distance by four (2 squared = 4)
- Tires that roll maintain static contact with the road at the contact patch, providing maximum grip
- Once tires lock and start skidding, sliding friction takes over, which provides noticeably less stopping force than static friction
- Momentum is the product of an object's mass and its velocity
- A very heavy object carries enormous momentum even at low speeds, demanding substantial braking force to stop
- Torque depends on both the force applied and how far that force is from the pivot point
- Doubling or tripling the distance from the pivot proportionally multiplies the turning effect
- Pushing closer to the pivot produces less rotational force for the same effort
- Holding weight farther from your spine increases the lever arm, dramatically multiplying the rotational load on lower back muscles
- Keeping a load close to your chest keeps the combined center of mass aligned directly over your feet and spine
- The felt strain on your joints depends on distance from the pivot, not just the object's actual weight
- Levers cannot create energy from nothing; reducing required effort always requires moving over a proportionately greater distance
- Gaining a mechanical advantage means exchanging large movement for heavy lifting power
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Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Everyday Physics in Motion the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
You tap the brakes, but a loose cup on the seat slides forward. Why does this happen?
Get it right to open this lesson and 10 more in the app.
Where Everyday Physics in Motion takes you
- 1
Mastering Motion and Balance
- Predicting Motion and Stopping Distance
- Using Leverage and Stability
- 2
Managing Heat and Energy
- Controlling Heat Flow at Home
- Absorbing Impact and Conserving Energy
2 sections · 4 units · 11 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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