Physics Tutoring in Surrey
Physics rewards genuine understanding. Students learn to describe what is physically happening, then choose the mathematics that fits. That is what makes an unfamiliar problem solvable, and it is exactly what we teach.
Where Physics Support Makes the Biggest Difference
Physics 11
Kinematics, forces and energy, where students learn to think the way physics asks them to.
Physics 12
Momentum, circular motion, fields and circuits, usually alongside Pre-Calculus 12 and university applications.
Future engineers
Students heading into engineering or physical sciences who need the foundation to be genuinely solid.
Topics We Focus On Most
- Choosing the right formula for the situation in front of you
- Free-body diagrams drawn from the forces actually present
- Vectors and components, including motion on inclines
- Knowing when a collision calls for energy and when it calls for momentum
- Circuits, including combination series and parallel reasoning
What Students Learn With Us
- Kinematics in one and two dimensions
- Newton’s laws and free-body diagrams
- Work, energy and power
- Momentum and collisions
- Circular motion and gravitation
- Waves, optics and sound
- Electrostatics, current electricity and circuits
Levels We Tutor
Physics 11 · Physics 12 · Science 10 physics units · First-year university physics
Every Physics Topic in the BC Curriculum
Below is every topic the B.C. Ministry of Education lists for each course, taken from the provincial curriculum itself rather than paraphrased. Open a course to see what it covers and where students most often lose marks.
Science 1020 topics
The course that decides which Grade 11 science a student is ready for. Genetics, chemical reactions, energy transformations and the universe.
- DNA structure and function
- Patterns of inheritance
- Mechanisms for the diversity of lifemutation and its impact on evolution; natural selection and artificial selection
- Applied genetics and ethical considerations
- Rearrangement of atoms in chemical reactions
- Acid-base chemistry
- Law of conservation of mass
- Energy change during chemical reactions
- Practical applications and implications of chemical processes, including First Peoples knowledge
- Nuclear energy and radiation
- Law of conservation of energy
- Potential and kinetic energy
- Transformation of energy
- Local and global impacts of energy transformations from technologies
- Formation of the universebig bang theory; components of the universe over time
- Astronomical data and collection methods
Where marks are usually lost: Balancing equations and the law of conservation of mass. Chemistry 11 starts from the assumption that these are automatic.
Physics 1118 topics
Kinematics, forces, energy, circuits, heat and waves. The first course where a correct method with a wrong number still earns most of the marks.
- Vector and scalar quantities
- Horizontal uniform and accelerated motion
- Projectile motion
- Contact forces and the factors that affect magnitude and direction
- Mass, force of gravity, and apparent weight
- Newton\u2019s laws of motion and free-body diagrams
- Balanced and unbalanced forces in systems
- Conservation of energy; principle of work and energy
- Power and efficiency
- Simple machines and mechanical advantage
- Applications of simple machines by First Peoples
- Electric circuits (DC), Ohm\u2019s law, and Kirchhoff\u2019s laws
- Thermal equilibrium and specific heat capacity
- Generation and propagation of waves
- Properties and behaviours of waves
- Characteristics of sound
- Resonance and frequency of sound
- Graphical methods in physics
Where marks are usually lost: Free-body diagrams. Students who skip the diagram and go straight to the formula lose marks they had earned.
Physics 1221 topics
Relativity, static equilibrium, circular motion, gravitation, electrostatics, electromagnetism and momentum.
- Frames of reference
- Relative motion within a stationary reference frame
- Postulates of special relativity
- Relativistic effects within a moving reference frame
- Static equilibrium
- Uniform circular motioncentripetal force and acceleration; changes to apparent weight
- First Peoples knowledge and applications of forces in traditional technologies
- Gravitational field and Newton\u2019s law of universal gravitation
- Gravitational potential energy
- Gravitational dynamics and energy relationships
- Electric field and Coulomb\u2019s law
- Electric potential energy, electric potential, and electric potential difference
- Electrostatic dynamics and energy relationships
- Magnetic field and magnetic force
- Electromagnetic induction
- Applications of electromagnetic induction
- Impulse and momentum
- Conservation of momentum and energy in collisions
- Graphical methods in physics
Where marks are usually lost: Vector work in two dimensions. Sign conventions and components are where Physics 12 marks quietly disappear.
Physics 11 and 12 lean hard on Pre-Calculus. If the mathematics is the real problem, start with Pre-Calculus tutoring in Surrey.
Topic lists reproduced from the B.C. Ministry of Education provincial curriculum at curriculum.gov.bc.ca. Checked August 2026.
How We Teach Physics
Every physics problem starts the same way here: describe the situation, draw it, identify the forces or energies at play, and then reach for an equation. Building that habit is most of the work, and it is what lifts marks substantially. More on tutoring in Surrey with OOTB.
Small Group, One-on-One or Exam Prep
Small-group physics tutoring runs at $370 a month for four hours a week. One-on-one and exam preparation are $40 an hour, in person in Surrey or online over Zoom. Every new student starts with a $50 trial class. Compare all programs.
Physics Tutoring Across Surrey, and Online
Physics tutoring in Surrey runs from our centre at 8806 141A Street. Students travel to us from Newton, Fleetwood, Guildford, Cloverdale, City Centre and South Surrey, and a good share of them are taking Physics 11 or 12 alongside Pre-Calculus.
Classes run 9:00am to 9:00pm seven days a week. Online students work with the same tutors over Zoom and we share a whiteboard for free-body diagrams, which is the part of physics that does not survive being described over the phone. We also teach students online in Vancouver, Burnaby, Delta and Langley.
Physics marks are often a mathematics problem wearing a physics costume. Finding out which of the two it is takes one session with a tutor in Surrey who teaches both. To book, call 604-725-6845. Every new student starts with a $50 trial group class, so you can see the teaching before committing to a term.
Physics Tutoring FAQs
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