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.
Course Information
16 weeks of 1.5 hour lecture videos
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
Course Contents
| Subject | Description |
|---|---|
| Electrostatics | Coulomb's law, Gauss's law, dipoles |
| Conductors | Potential, image charges, dielectrics |
| DC Circuits | Capacitors, resistors, olympiad tricks |
| Magnetic Fields | Biot-Savart, Ampere's law, dipoles |
| Induction | Lenz's law, Faraday's law, inductance |
| AC Circuits | Impedance, driven oscillators, phasors |
| EM Waves | Nonlinear circuits, Ampere-Maxwell, Poynting vector |
| Thermo I | Ideal gases, work, heat capacitance |
| Thermo II | Fluid flows, kinetic theory, entropy |
| Thermo III | Conduction, Stefan-Boltzmann, phase transitions |
| Relativistic Kinematics | Elementary effects, velocity addition, Doppler effect |
| Relativistic Dynamics | Energy, momentum, force, four vectors |
| Waves I | Wave equation, standing waves, refraction |
| Waves II | Mirrors and lenses, interference, diffraction |
| Modern Physics | DeBroglie relations, uncertainty principle, nuclear |
| Review | Run-through of practice USAPhO exam |