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Online Mechanics Tutoring
Tutoring in motion, forces, energy, momentum, rotation and oscillations.
One-to-one help with high-school, CEGEP, college and university topics. Start with a concept or question: your tutor can explain the ideas, choose a method and guide you through an example. In-person options in Montréal
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Start with the topic in your question. These free lessons cover motion, forces, equilibrium and conservation laws. Bring your question to a tutoring session; your course outline helps us confirm the scope.
- Motion and graphs
Distinguish position, velocity and acceleration before choosing an equation.
- Forces and friction
Choose one object, draw its forces and check the friction model.
- Forces in two dimensions: components and acceleration
Resolve each force on shared axes, add signed components, then recover the resultant’s direction and apply Newton’s second law.
- Statics: torque and equilibrium
Find the perpendicular lever arm, choose a pivot and check force and torque balance.
- Applied statics: distributed loads and support reactions
If your course includes distributed loads, replace a uniform or triangular load by its resultant, then use force and moment balance to find the support reactions.
- Work, energy and momentum
Choose the system and time interval, then check which conservation law applies.
- Test your setup on mixed mechanics questions
Write the diagram, signs and governing law before opening a solution; use the repair links for the decision you could not justify.
Optional geometry support, when your problem contains a non-right triangle: choose the sine or cosine law.
Optional extension using polynomial derivatives and definite integrals: compare a velocity rule with the same rule for position. The algebra-based graph path remains usable on its own.
At each step: read the example, attempt a question before opening its solution, then redo a missed step without notes. Finish by applying the method to permitted practice from your own course.
A starting point for your level
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High school in Québec or Ontario
Start by reading a motion graph or drawing the forces on one object. Choose examples that match your course; the lessons also include extensions for other levels.
CEGEP in Montréal and Québec
Find motion, force and conservation-law lessons, then your CEGEP mechanics course guides.
College in Ontario: Ottawa and the GTA
For applied mechanics, choose your college in Ottawa or the GTA. Statics and dynamics topics vary by program; use your course outline to choose lessons.
University: McGill, Concordia and Ontario
In Montréal, choose McGill or Concordia to find your course. University of Toronto guides are also linked below. Use your exact code to distinguish courses and their prerequisites.
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KinematicsNewton’s lawsTorque and static equilibriumWork and energyMomentum and collisionsRotationGravitation and periodic motion
Common difficulties
- Drawing useful free-body diagrams
- Choosing axes and vector components
- Selecting a conservation law or equation of motion
How tutoring can help
Bring a problem you’re stuck on or a concept you’d like to understand better. We can also start with the basics and build your confidence step by step before tackling problems.
- Your tutor can help you choose the object to study, draw its forces and decide which principle fits the situation before writing equations.
- Together, check the signs, units and physical meaning.
- Then try a similar setup with guidance where needed.
If you have a course outline, it can help us choose the level and topics to work on.
Optional example: turning a force diagram into equations
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Ask about mechanics tutoringChoose axes that simplify the force diagram
A block of mass slides on a fixed, frictionless incline. Let be the angle the incline makes with the horizontal, and let be the magnitude of gravitational acceleration. Gravity and the surface’s normal force, the push perpendicular to the incline, are the only forces. Find the block’s acceleration , taking down the slope as positive.
Work through the reasoning
Choose one axis parallel to the incline and the other perpendicular to it. The weight has magnitude ; its downslope component is , and its component into the surface is . The normal force balances the perpendicular component because the block does not accelerate through the surface. Along the slope, Newton’s second law gives . Since , divide by to obtain . At , the incline is horizontal and the acceleration is zero, consistent with the force diagram.
Prepare for your lesson
Bring a mechanics question, even if you have not drawn a force diagram or written an equation. Your tutor can help you isolate the body, label only the forces acting on it and choose positive directions. If you have started, include your diagram and equations so you can check the friction and contact assumptions together.
An original Nablio example, not a university exam question. Your current course outline determines the material to focus on.
Independent practice
Free study guides and practice
Gravitational Energy: Turning Radius and Escape Speed
Go beyond circular-orbit forces: use gravitational potential energy for radial turning points, escape thresholds and circular-state comparisons. Three examples and six explained exercises.
Free-Body Diagrams and Friction: From Forces to Equations
Draw force diagrams, distinguish static and kinetic friction, and follow an uphill slide through stopping, resting or reversing with worked examples.
Work, Energy or Momentum: Choose the Method
Choose work, energy or momentum by system and interval. Solve collisions, read force–position and force–time graphs, and distinguish impulse from work.
Motion Graphs: From the Story to the Equation
Translate a motion story into position, velocity and acceleration graphs. Read slopes and signed areas, choose valid kinematics equations, and try six explained questions.
Torque and Static Equilibrium: Find the Perpendicular Lever Arm
Find perpendicular lever arms, balance forces and torques, and test sliding, tipping and ladder friction limits. Six worked examples and fourteen questions with explained solutions.
Connected Objects: Contact Forces, Tension and Pulleys
Find contact forces and pulley tension with separate force diagrams. Four worked examples and eight solved questions include slipping and a two-to-one movable pulley.
Circular Motion: Force Diagrams and Centripetal Acceleration
Use force diagrams for circular motion, conical pendulums, banked turns and vertical-loop contact, then explore gravitational orbits. Nine worked examples and sixteen questions with hints and solutions.
Mechanics: Six Questions to Check Your Setup
Practise choosing a system, drawing forces and writing signed equations through six mechanics questions with optional hints and worked solutions.
When a pulley has rotational inertia: forces, torque and energy
Connect three force and torque diagrams to explain unequal pulley tensions. Check rotational energy, recover the ideal limit and retry with a different moment of inertia.
Projectile motion with different launch and landing heights
Use one shared time for two components, solve the actual landing-height condition, distinguish apex and impact, and test a downward-launch retry.
Angular momentum: six guided questions
Practise system and axis choices, signed angular momentum, external torque, changing inertia and inelastic rotational collisions. Hints and fully explained answers.
Angular momentum: choose the system, axis and interval
Decide when angular momentum is conserved. Work through external angular impulse, changing inertia and a sticking collision, then check kinetic energy separately.
Distributed Loads: Resultants, Centroids and Support Reactions
Turn uniform, triangular and combined load diagrams into equivalent forces, then solve pin-and-roller reactions. Three worked examples and eight questions with optional hints and explained solutions.
Rolling without slipping: friction, forces and energy
Check whether static friction can sustain rolling, connect force and torque, and split kinetic energy between translation and rotation. Two worked examples and four explained problems.
Exam preparation
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Exam preparation can mix conceptual questions with timed problems involving forces, conservation laws, and rotation.