Award-Winning College Physics Tutors
serving Olympia, WA

Mechanics is where Cory lights up — it's the moment students first have to fuse physical intuition with real mathematical reasoning, and his physics degree means he can walk through that transition from both sides. He takes a conversational approach, tying concepts like torque or conservation of momentum to situations students have actually encountered, so the equations feel like descriptions of something real rather than symbols to manipulate. Rated 4.9 by students.

I am a Masters student in Physics at the University of Washington and have over 10 years of teaching and tutoring experience. Most recently, I worked as a teacher at the Yellow Wood Academy, a private high school that offers students a specialized one-on-one classroom environment. At YWA, I taught all high school science classes (including AP, Computer Programming, and Environmental Science) and all levels of high school math. In addition to my teaching and tutoring duties, I designed individualized lesson plans, curricula, homework assignments, and tests. Subjects I have successfully tutored Physics: all levels Chemistry: all levels high school, plus P-Chem, O-Chem Biology: all levels high school Math: all levels high school, plus Differential Equations, Statistics, some Group Theory. Standardized test preparation (incl. SAT, ACT, GRE, MCAT) Need help in another area? Just ask! While math and science are the subjects I am most passionate about, I am well-versed in many academic areas, and I may be able to help you.

When college physics courses hit circuits, capacitors, and electromagnetic induction, Daniel's electrical engineering training at Stevens kicks in — these aren't abstract textbook topics for him but the foundation of everything he's built and designed. He breaks intimidating multi-concept problems into smaller, logical steps, stripping away the fear factor that keeps students from seeing the physics clearly. His experience running calculus review sessions for 200+ students at a time means he's unusually good at finding the explanation that actually clicks.

Rice University's physics program is notoriously rigorous, and Ainsley came out the other side with both a B.S. in Physics and a philosophy degree that sharpened her ability to reason through ambiguous, multi-step problems — exactly the skill that separates students who survive college physics from those who don't. She digs into the conceptual logic behind topics like rotational dynamics and electrostatics, making sure students understand *why* an approach works before applying it to increasingly complex scenarios. Rated 4.9 by students.

Bidyut's biomedical engineering coursework at Johns Hopkins means he tackles college physics problems — from rotational dynamics to electromagnetic induction — with the applied perspective of someone who uses these principles in lab and design work daily. He connects abstract force diagrams and circuit analyses to real engineering scenarios so the physics actually clicks. Rated 5.0 by students.

Dylan has taken both college mechanics and electricity/magnetism at Northwestern's engineering school, so he's worked through the exact problem sets — free-body diagrams, circuit analysis, wave optics — that trip up most college physics students. His computer science background also means he's comfortable walking through the math-heavy derivations that make physics click rather than feel like guesswork. Rated 5.0 by students.

Working at an ExxonMobil refinery before MIT Sloan meant Caroline spent years applying thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and force analysis to real industrial systems — the same physics that fills college problem sets, except with actual consequences for getting the math wrong. Her mechanical engineering M.S. from WashU (magna cum laude) gave her deep fluency with calculus-based derivations, so she can walk through everything from torque problems to heat transfer without skipping the steps that textbooks gloss over. Rated 5.0 by students.

Molecular biology might seem like a different world from physics, but Annabel's coursework lives in the overlap — understanding diffusion requires thermodynamics, membrane potentials are voltage problems, and imaging techniques depend on wave optics and electromagnetism. She brings that life-sciences lens to college physics topics like energy conservation and fluid dynamics, making the material click for pre-med students who need to see why these concepts matter beyond the problem set.

Theater might not scream physics, but Amber's breadth across math and science tutoring — from calculus to chemistry to AP-level coursework — means she's comfortable with the quantitative reasoning that college physics demands, and her 5.0 rating confirms students agree. She's particularly effective at teaching the problem-setup habits that separate students who flounder from those who don't: sketching free-body diagrams, identifying conservation laws, and translating word problems into equations before plugging in numbers. Her ACT 35 reflects the kind of cross-disciplinary sharpness that keeps pace with fast-moving, concept-dense courses.

Three science-focused bachelor's degrees — including biology — meant Garrett sat through the full calculus-based physics sequence and kept coming back to it in physiology and physical chemistry, where concepts like fluid dynamics, pressure gradients, and energy transfer show up again and again. That repeated exposure across disciplines gives him an intuitive feel for when to apply conservation of energy versus momentum, or how to reason through a thermodynamics problem without getting lost in the formalism. His 1530 SAT speaks to the quantitative sharpness he brings to each session.

College-level physics demands comfort with calculus-based reasoning — deriving equations of motion, integrating force over a path for work, or applying differential equations to oscillations. Kathleen's math degree from Washington University and her experience teaching through multivariable calculus mean she can unpack both the physics intuition and the mathematical machinery simultaneously.

Neuroscience gave Julie a deep working knowledge of the physics that governs biological systems — membrane capacitance, electrical potentials across ion channels, fluid dynamics in neural vasculature — so she brings a concrete, applied lens to college physics topics that other tutors treat purely abstractly. Her strong quantitative background (1480 SAT, dual B.S. in Neuroscience) means she's comfortable walking through the calculus-based derivations in mechanics and E&M without losing sight of what the physics actually describes. Rated 5.0 by students.

Between earning a mechanical engineering bachelor's and pursuing his master's, Aaron has taken calculus-based physics from every angle — statics, dynamics, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics — and now applies those principles daily in graduate-level research and coursework. He breaks down problems by teaching students to sketch the physical situation first, identify constraints, and only then select the right conservation law or force equation. Holds a 5.0 rating.

Studying computer science and applied math at Harvard means Derek uses physics constantly — from electromagnetism in circuit design to mechanics in computational modeling. He tackles college-level topics like Lagrangian dynamics and wave equations by connecting the math to physical intuition, making dense derivations feel less abstract.

Chemical engineering at Vanderbilt means Greg solves physics problems daily — fluid mechanics, heat transfer, thermodynamics, and force balances are baked into every core course, so his explanations come from repeated, hands-on application rather than textbook summaries. His math double major gives him the calculus fluency to walk through derivations cleanly, especially when problems involve integration over continuous systems or solving second-order differential equations of motion. Rated 5.0 by students.