The Physics of Everyday Motion
Discover the invisible forces that govern how you move, drive, and play. Learn to see the world through the lens of momentum, energy, and the laws that keep everything in its place.
Like Duolingo, but for The Physics of Everyday 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 The Rules of Movement and Energy and Resistance. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in The Physics of Everyday Motion
- The natural state of a moving object is to stay in motion at the same speed and direction
- Mass is the physical property that determines how much an object resists changes in motion
- Objects do not naturally slow down on their own; they require an outside force to change speed
- More mass makes an object 'stubborn' regardless of whether you are trying to speed it up or slow it down
- Mass as a measure of resistance to change in motion
- The car and the box are separate physical objects with their own inertia
- On Earth, air resistance and friction are the 'interference' that stops motion
- Stopping the car does not automatically stop the objects inside it
- Without external forces like friction, an object's 'laziness' keeps it moving indefinitely
- The tendency of objects to maintain their current state of motion
- Stationary objects have inertia that actively resists being put into motion
- The independence of motion between connected objects during a sudden stop
- The more mass a stationary object has, the more force is required to overcome its 'desire' to stay still
- Motion in a vacuum without external interference
- Objects do not change their state of motion on their own
- A push or pull (force) is required to start an object moving
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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 The Physics of Everyday 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 try to push a parked car and a parked bicycle. Why is the car so much harder to get moving?
Get it right to open this lesson and 10 more in the app.
Where The Physics of Everyday Motion takes you
- 1
The Rules of Movement
- The Law of Laziness
- Pushing for Results
- 2
Energy and Resistance
- The Hidden Cost of Friction
- Energy in Hiding
2 sections · 4 units · 11 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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