/01
“Horizontal and vertical motion get mixed into one calculation.”
Motion in one and two dimensions
The kinematic equations as four statements about the same situation, plus projectiles handled as two independent problems.
Physics tutors
143
Physics tutors on Saal
$38/hr
Lowest rate anyone charges
The subject where reading the question is half the work. Students who know every formula still lose marks because they never drew the situation before they started.
HighAP & HonorsCollege
What you’ll work on
Five things people say before they book.
One of them is usually the reason. The topic underneath is what a tutor would put the first month into.
/02
“The work starts with an equation instead of a picture.”
Forces and free-body diagrams
Drawing the diagram first, every time. This single habit is the difference between a C and an A more often than anything else here.
/03
“Every collision problem gets attacked with kinematics.”
Energy and momentum
When to use conservation instead of forces, which is a choice that makes hard problems short and is rarely taught explicitly.
/04
“Resistors are combined in the order they appear on the page.”
Circuits
Series and parallel read off a redrawn diagram, then Ohm's law and power, with the redrawing treated as the actual skill.
/05
“Ray diagrams come out right only when the answer is already known.”
Waves and optics
Wave behaviour, ray diagrams and the sign conventions that lose a quarter of the marks on the optics unit.
None of them quite it?
Bring the syllabus, the textbook or the last score report to a first lesson. Every Physics tutor here plans against what you actually have, not against a standard course.
How a first lesson is runWho teaches it
Physics, taught by 2 of these 143.
In whichever order you find useful. Thirty minutes with any of them is free, so meeting two before you choose costs nothing but the evening.
What it costs
Priced by level, not by subject.
Tutors set their own rate and Saal adds nothing on top of it. These are the bands they set it inside, the same in every subject, and the lowest anyone charges to teach Physics is $38/hr.
Move or cancel any lesson up to twelve hours ahead at no charge, and the card is charged the morning after a lesson happens. Packages and refunds.
Your first thirty minutes
Thirty free minutes, and this is what they are for.
01
Draw one situation
You read a problem aloud and draw it. No numbers. Most physics grades are decided in this step.
The terms, in full
- Free
- 30 minutes
- No card asked for
02
Pick the approach
Forces or energy — the tutor asks you to choose and say why, which is the skill that separates the top band.
It will be one of these five
- Motion in one and two dimensions
- Forces and free-body diagrams
- Energy and momentum
- Circuits
- Waves and optics
Questions
What people ask before they book.
Nearby
Where people go next.
The rest of Science first, then whatever else is taught at the same levels.
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