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MCAT Physics Tutor

Helping Students  online since 1998

Check out the unique features of this site!

1)  Each topic page (click on the samples below) describes the relevance of that topic to the MCAT exam.

2)  Sample audio-visual slideshow tutorial:  Lens Basics

3)  Sample worked problem:  Baseball hit over fence?

4)  Sample teaching problem (show/hide) approach):  Marble falling down stairs

Sign Up Now for Immediate Access to the physics problems site and all the audio-visual slide show tutorials.

 

EXPERIENCE:  We have the experience in teaching physics, teaching MCAT physics prep courses and writing the physics portion of the highly regarded Barron's MCAT Study Guide to insure your success.

BETTER GRADES:   To get a better grade on the physics portion of the MCAT you need to know the questions in advance.  We don't know all the questions you will encounter, but we do know what was on past exams and what you can expect on future exams.

CLEAR UNDERSTANDING:  Our clear approach to doing problems the simplest way possible will give you a better overall understanding of physics, and most importantly the background information necessary for the physics questions that you will encounter on the MCAT.

 LESS WORK:  It is not how hard you study or how long you study that counts.  It is how efficiently you study.  Using our knowledge of what you can expect on the MCAT, you can be assured that you will be working on what counts and not studying things that do not contribute to a good score.

Click on the Subscribe Now link below and pay with any major credit card. After that you can sign in each time you visit the site and have access to all the problems and the tutorials. We will communicate with you by e-mail and arrange for your tutor and the practice tests.  If you want more tutor time just ask. 

Remember: You can understand the physics - but still not be able to do the problems!

This site shows you how to do the problems you will encounter. 

And doing problems is how you get graded on the MCAT test!

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Joining the site may make the difference between excellence and mediocrity, or perhaps between attending med school and not. Sign up for the whole program  or any parts of it.

 

If you need a program to study physics just for the MCAT physics problems, you will want some and possibly all of the following features:

  • Study at your speed and your convenience
  • Have the ability to go over and over something until you've got it
  • Study when you want, where you want and at the pace you want
  • Get extra help on the things you need help on
  • Know that you are studying the right material
  • Learn from physics profs that teach you how to do typical MCAT problems, not someone who "took the test last year"
 
If you want these things you have come to the right place! This MCAT Physics Tutor site will provide this and more. Look at what you get!
  • Access to the site for one full year
  • Access to all the audio-visual tutorials, all the problems and all the teaching problems 
  • One hour of one-on-one contact with an experienced physics prof (your tutor) through our MCATUTOR program
  • Telephone link with your tutor (through Skype) while you are discussing the problems, if you want it
  • Two sample tests for you to take and have evaluated by your assigned tutor
  • More tutor time if you need it.
 
You can take just the tutorials, teaching problems and worked problems or the personal tutoring or just the practice test plus evaluation or you can take the whole package.
 
If you want the problems, check out the many free samples below and ask yourself if this will help you do MCAT physics problems faster and easier.  We get right to the heart of each topic with a basic review of each topic, audio-visual tutorials, worked problems and then teaching problems were you can drill yourself on procedures until you have mastered them.
 
About half the problems use a show/hide approach.  In these problems you first see the statement of the problem and possibly a prompt to draw a diagram.  Clicking the show/hide button shows the next step in the problem.  With successive show/hide buttons the route through the problem is slowly revealed.  This way you can follow along the problem and work it out while checking each step along the way.  We think this is much better than stating the problem and then prompting you for the answer or having you read a worked problem or watching someone solve problems.
 
The problems cover the areas such as Mechanics, Magnetism and Light that you will find on the MCAT test. The usual study route is to  read the topic discussion, watch the audio-visual tutorials and then work through the  teaching problems.
 
After you get used to this technique of learning how to apply concepts to problem solving you will look over the worked problems and then copy the "T" or teaching problems with the hide buttons, and work through the problem yourself successively checking by "showing" each step in the problem.   A little unsure of the procedure?  No Problem.  Just come back another time and do it again.  You will effectively teach yourself to do the problems in a non-threatening (no class, no colleagues or instructor that is moving at a pace different from yours) environment.  Take as long as it takes.  When you can do the problem completely without opening any show buttons, you have mastered the technique for that type of problem. And what are these problems.  They are the ones that we have determined to be most like ones you will find on the MCAT test.
 
If you want one-on-one tutoring help, then check out our on line tutoring software. Click on the link to go to the power point presentation of MCATUTOR, our online interactive tutor machine. The software uses text, images you can draw, with the help of your instructor, and voice. You can even download sessions for review.  Or work with Skype, whichever is most convenient for you.
 
Why are we so confident that we can prepare you better than anyone else? Simple. We have the experience in physics and in preparing students for the MCAT test. Just a little background on the people who have created this web site:

  • We have been selected to prepare the Physics chapter of the prestigious Barron's MCAT Prep Guide
  • All our tutors are experienced physics profs who have taught students preparing for the MCAT
  • One of our instructors has contributed problems to the MCAT test
  • Another instructor has prepared and taught an MCAT prep course at a major university
  • All our instructors have, and regularly review, the popular MCAT test prep books so when your tutor says concentrate on this or don't worry about that it is because of their experience
 
If you want help with practice tests, we will supply you with two practice tests, and after you have completed them, we will give you a written review of how you did on the problems with suggestions where you might improve.


Sample Topics

Projectiles

Sound

Mirrors and Lenses




Basics

Units

Trigonometry

Graphs

Vectors

 

Motion

Linear Motion

Falling Bodies

Projectiles

 

Forces and Motion

Forces

Forces w/ Friction

Circular Motion

Equilibrium

 

Work, Energy and Momentum

Work

Energy

Momentum

 

Thermodynamics

Temperature and Calorimetry

Heat

Thermodynamic Laws

 

Fluids and Solids

Fluids

Solids

 

Electrostatics

Coulomb's Law

Electric Current

Electric Field

Electric Potential

 

Electromagnetism

Fields and Forces

Currents and Fields

Induction

 

Electric Circuits

Resistors

Capacitors

AC Circuits

 

Waves

Simple Harmonic Motion

Mechanical Waves

Sound

 

Light and Optics

Reflection, Refraction and Polarization

Interference and Diffraction

Mirrors and Lenses

 

Atomic and Nuclear

Atomic

Quantum Phenomena

Nuclear

 

 

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