Any suggestion for educational platforms in physics

Hannibal Buress · 15 Mar 2022 at 20:15

Random question, but is there any site or platform in which my son could have some help with physics, like a gamming platform designed as a physics homework help, or physics help online for his classes in high school?

I have been looking around an the most I find is something like tutoring, or courses online with video lessons. I found this site which contains complete physics help courses for the kid ad questions that he can solve, but I would like to see different options since he is in grade 10 and we want him to start preparing for some AP examinations next year.

Any ideas?

PlacidCasual · 15 Mar 2022 at 20:22

I see adverts for something called Brilliant which is a paid for service that sounds like something similar.

https://brilliant.org/

I have not used it so I can't offer a view to it's quality .

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dowie · 15 Mar 2022 at 20:29

This is often recommended for school kids:

https://www.khanacademy.org/

GreatAuk · 16 Mar 2022 at 08:02

Not a gaming platform in any way, but hyperphysics is a really good resource.

What's an AP exam?

Hannibal Buress · 17 Mar 2022 at 23:09

PlacidCasual said:
I see adverts for something called Brilliant which is a paid for service that sounds like something similar.

https://brilliant.org/

I have not used it so I can't offer a view to it's quality .

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Thanks! I will check it out and compare with the one I was looking at.

Hannibal Buress · 17 Mar 2022 at 23:10

dowie said:
This is often recommended for school kids:

https://www.khanacademy.org/

We use Khan Academy and it is great!!! Thanks for suggesting it, thanks to the Khan Academy community we learned about StudyPug so maybe they are just a step up.
We are just looking for something a little bit more interactive.

Hannibal Buress · 17 Mar 2022 at 23:17

GreatAuk said:
Not a gaming platform in any way, but hyperphysics is a really good resource.

What's an AP exam?

Oh Hyperphysics it's GREAT, I have been using it since I was a college student.
Yeah we want something morei nteractive so our oldest practices without having this feeling of studying all day... but also because our younger ones, we want to get them interested in science with different platforms since early age.

An AP exam is an "Advanced Placement" Examination, they are used at the end of an AP course (which is basically a college level course, but taken in high school) as proof that the kid has the level of knowledge and can advance faster during their University education.

My kid is looking into a career in Physics and Astronomy and he wants to have the first year college courses done by the time he enters so he can start right away in research projects. You can do it without the AP courses, but you will be doing too much work at the same time, too many classes and basic knowledge that it's better to have already, so it's a way to make their load lighter later by using high school years' time to do it.

Also, having this under your belt by the time you graduate HS looks nice in college applications.

dowie · 18 Mar 2022 at 00:51

It's basically like a mini A-Level exam if you're looking at UK equivalents, a bachelors degree in the US takes 4 years rather than 3 and kids carry on with a broad education all the way through highschool whereas UK kids specialise a bit from 16-18 and just pick 4 A-level subjects to study.

That means stuff like single variable calculus which you'd cover right away in the first module in A-level maths at age 16 in the UK is "college-level" stuff (calculus 1) in the US... or can be covered in special "AP exams".