The Language of Physics
Like Duolingo, but for The Language of Physics. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
A short one: 9 levels across 2 sections, about 18 minutes end to end, roughly 4 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Describing Motion and Force and Waves and Fields. It assumes you already know the basics.
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Key ideas in The Language of Physics
- Speed is a scalar value representing how fast an object moves regardless of path
- Velocity is a vector that requires both a numerical speed and a specific direction
- Acceleration occurs whenever there is a change in speed, including slowing down
- Changing direction at a constant speed is a change in velocity and thus acceleration
- Distinguishing speed from velocity in a physical context
- Identifying acceleration as any change in the velocity vector
- Inertia is an inherent property that resists any change to the current state of motion
- Mass is the physical measure of an object's inertia
- Acceleration is inversely proportional to mass when a constant force is applied
- Newton's Second Law dictates that more mass requires more force to reach the same speed
- Net force is the final result after adding all individual force vectors together
- Understanding inertia as a resistance to change in motion
- An object only accelerates if the net force acting upon it is non-zero
- Applying the proportional relationships of Newton's Second Law
- Determining movement based on the sum of forces
- Work requires a force to cause an actual displacement of the object.
You've tried the other tabs
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 The Language of Physics 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.
A pilot reports they are flying at 500 mph heading due North. What physical measurement are they describing?
Get it right to open this lesson and 8 more in the app.
Where The Language of Physics takes you
Bridge the gap between everyday English and scientific precision. Learn to describe the laws of the universe using the specific vocabulary and phrasing of a physicist.
- 1
Describing Motion and Force
- The Precision of Movement
- Energy, Work, and Power
- 2
Waves and Fields
- The Vocabulary of Waves
2 sections · 3 units · 9 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
The Language of Physics is taught in the The Bestie style: your friend who just gets it. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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