Ideas on how you can teach Newton´s Laws of Motion to your students

Published in oct 2023

When teaching Newton´s laws of motion during private physics classes it's inportant to have some nice concrete examples to help students visualise the concept of the laws.  {{btn_search_tutor}} Newton´s First Law For Newton´s First Law, the first part is quite easy. You can use a ball sitting on the floor at rest and demonstrate that it will stay that way unless a (resultant) force acts on it. For the second part, I often ask the stude...

How do I remember these terrible Physics Formulae?

Published in dec 2023

Some of the students I teach are pretty good at maths. If you give them a formular, say K.E.= 1/2 m v squared, they can rearrange it, plug the numbers in, take the square root if necessary, everything. But some of them have trouble remembering the formula in the first place! So what does a tutor do then? One way is a boring, solid way: rote repetition, time and time again until they are sick to death of saying "G.P.E.= mgh". But at least when Ju...

Teaching Biology Online: Delights and Downsides

Published in aug 2024

I have now done a few years of teaching A level biology and wanted to compare face to face vs online tuition. I know for a fact that many parents are suspicious of online tutoring, but there may be some myth busting I can do to reassure them. {{btn_custom:Find Tutors Online:https://www.findtutors.co.uk/online-lessons/biology/}} First of all, parents often make a saving on transport. Face to face tutor seem to spend nearly as much time travelling...