I’ll go first! I’m Kelley! I’ve got a PhD in physics education research, and I teach math and AP physics. I made this community to gather folks who like physics and who want to learn physics! I like fiber arts of all types (sewing, crochet, knitting, etc). What about you!?

Hello! Merry Christmas. I hope it's Ok to share my new page for anybody interested. Of course, I in no way intend to "step on the toes" of the teaching of this page. Also, this isn't to disregard the merits of teaching the details, calculus and formulas of real physics. I just want to provide a resource. I am pasting a promotional post about where my intentions are, how its not so much a real course as an aid, resource and supplement to help anyone understand practical concepts of Physics. I am not technically a physicist, nor have I been to graduate school. I got my BSME (Bachelor's of Applied Science) in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University Ft Collins in 2017 and worked in the greater Denver area industrial and aerospace supply chain. I don't remember the nitty details of how to perform every type of integration technique- but as a Mechanical/Aerospace Engineer, i.e. the "oompa loompas of physics" as Sheldon Cooper might say lol- I started this course to address a problem-a Big problem- Too many Engineering/Physics students are intimidated away early on, because learning complex physics and math for the first time is inherently challenging and intimidating. The workload and pace of Engineering and similar majors is incredibly rigorous and there's no way to describe it- you just kind of have to experience it. Having been in industry for years, and now coming out of industry with years of real world experience as an Engineer- it is not lost on me the memory of the struggle of being a teenager learning the entirety of Single and Multivariable Calculus, Differential Equations and Linear Algebra without first being told in easy-to-digest terms for WHY we were forced to learn it. Everybody was asking the same question outside class- Why did we need to learn all this Calculus and Math, with no obvious or direct connection to real, tangible engineering? Even in a supposedly "very hands on program" like CSU, Engineering is ultra-theoretically framed. By the time I came to fully appreciate and understand the practical ways engineers apply the calculus I learned as a freshman- I was going into my senior year. This felt VERY backwards to me. When my classmates and I spread the rumor "Real engineers say they never even do math by hand in most jobs in the real world"- it made it feel even more pointless. Now, having worked in industry and around other engineers- I both understand why you often don't "do it by hand in industry" but why it is still so important and vital to understand, confidently, advanced calculus and models for rates of change, metrology, and approximations in the data being collected for you.