The Secrets of How Everything Moves
Like Duolingo, but for The Secrets of How Everything Moves. 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.
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Key ideas in The Secrets of How Everything Moves
- A force is a push or a pull
- Motion does not happen spontaneously
- Forces are the cause of changes in motion
- Objects require an external force to change their state of rest
- An object stops receiving the 'push' force once contact ends
- Friction acts as a separate 'pull' or 'push' that slows the object down
- Forces always act in pairs
- The wall pushes back on your hand with the same amount of 'oomph' you give it
- A change in direction indicates a force is present
- Pushes move things away from the source
- Predicting the outcome when a force is removed
- Speeding up or slowing down is evidence of a force
- Pulls move things toward the source
- Identifying evidence of invisible forces
- Understanding why contact feels like pressure
- Categorizing everyday actions as pushes or pulls
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 Secrets of How Everything Moves 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.
Imagine you are interacting with a heavy wooden crate. In the simplest terms of physics, what is a force?
Get it right to open this lesson and 239 more in the app.
Where The Secrets of How Everything Moves takes you
Ever wonder why things fall down instead of up, or how a heavy plane stays in the air? Discover the hidden rules that run our universe through simple play and everyday magic.
- 1
Making Things Move and Stop
- The big push and the tiny pull
- Why heavy things are harder to nudge
- The invisible brake called friction
- How things keep going forever in space
- Winning a tug-of-war with balanced forces
- 2
Falling Down and Staying Up
- Earth's giant invisible magnet for stuff
- Why a feather and a rock fall differently
- The secret to orbiting without falling
- Weight vs. how much 'stuff' is inside you
- 3
The Magic of Energy
- Energy: the fuel for doing things
- The energy of moving fast
- The energy of waiting to move
- Why energy never really disappears
- Bouncing balls and lost heat
- Where does our electricity come from?
- 4
Spinning, Swinging, and Twirling
- The trick to balancing on a bike
- Why ice skaters spin faster with tucked arms
- The rhythm of a grandfather clock
- Loops and rollercoasters
- 5
Floating and Sinking Secrets
- How heavy metal ships stay afloat
- Squeezing water and air
- Why balloons fly away
- The pressure at the bottom of the pool
- Drinking through a straw physics
- 6
Heat, Cold, and Wiggle Power
- Heat is just tiny things dancing
- How a thermometer actually works
- Why metal feels colder than wood
- Steam, water, and ice: the big changes
- 7
Waves, Noise, and Rainbows
- Making ripples in a pond
- How sound travels through walls
- Why the sky is blue and sunsets are red
- Bending light with water and glass
- The invisible waves that cook your food
- How mirrors play tricks on us
- 8
Zaps and Magnets
- Static hair and balloon sticking
- The flow of tiny 'zaps' in a wire
- Magnets: the push-pull dance
- How magnets can make electricity
- 9
The Tiny World Inside Everything
- Building blocks too small to see
- The empty space inside a solid table
- How tiny bits can be in two places at once
- The glue that holds the world together
- Why some things glow in the dark
- 10
Space, Time, and the Really Big Stuff
- Is time the same for everyone?
- The stretchy fabric of the universe
- Black holes: the universe's vacuum cleaners
- How we know the universe is growing
- The very first 'Bang'
10 sections · 48 units · 240 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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