USAPhO Course Series
Our advanced course prepares students to earn gold medals in the USAPhO. To date, six of our students have earned gold medals, with three qualifying for the US Physics Team. One session is offered per year in the Winter.
Course Information
16 weeks (11/16/25 - 3/22/26)
Sundays, 3:30 - 5:00 pm EST
Lectures are recorded
300+ USAPhO-level problems
Full practice USAPhO exam with original problems
Topics covered include electricity and magnetism, thermodynamics, special relativity, optics, waves, and quantum mechanics
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Course Schedule Winter 2025
| Lecture Date | Subject | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 11/17 | Electrostatics | Coulomb's law, Gauss's law, dipoles |
| 12/1 | Conductors | Potential, image charges, dielectrics |
| 12/8 | DC Circuits | Capacitors, resistors, olympiad tricks |
| 12/15 | Magnetic Fields | Biot-Savart, Ampere's law, dipoles |
| 1/5 | Induction | Lenz's law, Faraday's law, inductance |
| 1/12 | AC Circuits | Impedance, driven oscillators, phasors |
| 1/19 | EM Waves | Nonlinear circuits, Ampere-Maxwell, Poynting vector |
| 1/26 | Thermo I | Ideal gases, work, heat capacitance |
| 2/2 | Thermo II | Fluid flows, kinetic theory, entropy |
| 2/9 | Thermo III | Conduction, Stefan-Boltzmann, phase transitions |
| 2/16 | Relativistic Kinematics | Elementary effects, velocity addition, Doppler effect |
| 2/23 | Relativistic Dynamics | Energy, momentum, force, four vectors |
| 3/2 | Waves I | Wave equation, standing waves, refraction |
| 3/9 | Waves II | Mirrors and lenses, interference, diffraction |
| 3/16 | Modern Physics | DeBroglie relations, uncertainty principle, nuclear |
| 3/23 | Review | Run-through of practice USAPhO exam |