"I've been tutoring since about 2005 aside from a six-year break when the commute to my day job became one hour each way. I'm semi-retired from a 40-year career as a physicist. Most of those years I was an industrial physicist, but for seven of them I was a full-time university physics professor. I continue to keep a foot in academia as an adjunct professor of physics, something that I've been doing since 2010. I enjoy working with young people, unraveling their thought processes and lines of reasoning and guiding them to become independent critical thinkers.

Physics is hard. If you want to make progress learning physics (or math) you'll want to find an instructor who has observed how novices think, who listens to what they say and works to correct misunderstandings, who has taught hundreds of students, and who is dedicated to learning how to be the best instructor possible.

I've learned many things about teaching over the years. One thing I've learned is that novices in a subject think much differently than experts. My brain works differently than a novice’s. So, I listen to you very carefully when you speak. I work to understand your thinking patterns and your logic. Often beginners have perfectly logical well-thought-out answers to questions, and often the answers are not quite correct. I consider these to be valid answers because you have not guessed. You applied some sort of reasoning. Valid but incorrect, because your conclusion is based on an incomplete understanding of the concepts. I'll explore with you your thinking patterns and challenge you to think differently.

You are in school, and you are being evaluated by performance on exams. Problem solving is a separate skill that must be learned and practiced. I've taken and given many exams. I'll help you learn to think about problem solving.

Learning physics is not easy; it requires real work. Only you can do that work. Your teachers are there only to guide you. That's what I can do for you, one-on-one, intensively." less...