Availability
Evenings and weekends. I'm happy to schedule one-off sessions on short notice, recurring sessions (bi-)weekly, or anything in between. Sessions can be as long or as short as you'd like. I offer partial fee waivers for students with financial hardship
Rate
$50 / hour
Education
MS, Physics, University of California at Berkeley, 2018
BS, Physics, Stony Brook University, 2015
If you are struggling in an undergraduate introductory physics course, I am here to help! Visit my booking page to schedule a session today: https://vbarphysicstutor.youcanbook.me
I have 4 years experience teaching introductory physics to pre-med and life science students, which has given me a deep understanding of how this particular student population approaches physics, and which strategies are most likely to be successful for them. My teaching strategies focus on helping students understand how equations encode what's going on in the world around us (or in the world of the homework problem at hand), which many students miss when they view physics as a search for the sequence of steps that leads to the correct answer. This results in a deeper and more flexible understanding which can adapt to solve novel problems with ease, and is more useful outside of the narrow confines of academic physics.
In my experience, tutoring sessions are most useful when we are working through problems that you have already had some time to think about, even if you can't figure out the first step. Preferably, these will be problems that you choose from your class materials or textbook, but I am also happy to assign problems from a free and open online textbook. I typically do not "lecture" during tutoring sessions, I guide you while you do most of the work to figure out these problems.
I am currently most interested in working with undergraduates whose primary field of study is pre-medicine, life sciences, or a non-technical discipline. I'm happy to consider other students on a case by case basis.
I hold Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Physics from Stony Brook University (2015) and the University of California at Berkeley (2018) respectively. I am currently a PhD student and the Head Graduate Student Instructor for Physics 8A, the introductory physics course taken by all pre-med, life science, and architecture majors at UC Berkeley. In this role, I have found one on one interactions to be the most effective way of teaching physics, byfar.
I offer partial fee waivers for students with financial hardship.
