Positive Physics - Physics problems and curriculum for learners on any level!

The world's most positive way to learn physics and chemistry.

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Questions or feedback? Please don't hesitate to reachout to founder Jack Replinger. For specific issues, please include usernames and teacher code. I always write back.

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Our Platform & Strategy

Immediate Feedback for Student

Students can check their answers at anytime to ensure that they are practicing correctly. Students love seeing their correct answers turn green and can quickly identify and correct their errors.

Efficient Tracking & Grading for Teachers

The student scores page on our teacher account saves teachers countless hours of grading. In addition, teachers can track each student''s progress in real-time and see if there are specific skills or problems where students need more guidance.

1200+ problems including covering:

AP Physics 1 fundamentals, NGSS inquiry activities, & Conceptual Physics

Positive Physics includes multiple units on forces and motion as well as units on torque, momentum, energy, springs & oscillations, universal gravitation, mechanical waves and electricity. We also are in the process of creating an NGSS-aligned inquiry activity for each unit.

Traditional Problems Broken Down into Accessible Modules

Within each unit, students master individual skills to gain confidence before applying them to traditional physics problems.

Different Problems for Every Student

Our random number generator ensures that each student receives different numbers in their problems and our random assessment generator provides a different assessment for each student. Our random assessment generator also allows teachers to easily provide retakes.

Award-winning platform designed for physics learners of any background

Teacher Reviews

"PositivePhysics is awesome! The platform is incredibly simple for students and teachers. There are so many problems to solve. The graphics, explanations, and flow are easy to follow and therefore make heavy learning feel easy. Kids are easily engaged by the logical scaffolding of concepts. I was swamped taking on two new classes this year, and PositivePhysics saved me so much time. At a Title 1 school with very limited resources, I felt like I could finally push students to a new level of rigor using just their phones!"

- Nikki, Teacher from Connecticut

"Used for my AP Physics 1 class and provided a great word problem practice resource with immediate positive reinforcement when checking their work step by step. Definitely saw an increase in the effort students put into their practice problems outside of class as I had students stopping by at all times of the day to talk about a problem on Positive Physics or excited when working ahead and completing a section well before the due date. Definitely a "positive" contribution to my AP class :-)"

- Joseph, Teacher from Pennsylvania

"Thanks again for everything! This has really pushed my kids (and me!) It is a tremendous resource."

- David, Teacher from Tennessee

"I think the strength of positive physics is that it breaks the problems down and I don’t think there’s anything out there like it!"

- Paul, Teacher from California

"I used positivephysics.org for enrichment and my students loved it. They could practice anytime and anywhere."

- Vidya, Teacher from North Carolina

"This site has enormous potential. My students enjoyed using "Positive Physics" and it helped them master concepts. I would like to use it more in the future and plan to incorporate it even more next year!"

- Robin, Teacher from Alabama

Our Team & Our Story

Jack Replinger
Co-Founder, CEO & Content Creator
2020 Oxford University Skoll Scholar
2020 TFA National Social Innovation Award Finalist
2018 TFA-Memphis Alumni Leadership Award Winner
2015 Tennessee Charter School Teacher of the Year
jack@positivephysics.org

Anthony Fizer
Co-Founder & CTO
2020 Rhodes College Featured Black Entrepreneur
2019 Shelby County Commissioners' Impact Award

Soulsville Students
Chiefs of Inspiration & Quality Control

During my second year of teaching, I was watching my class struggle through their midterm exam. It was one of the lowest points of my teaching career, but it would turn out to be one of the most inspirational. DeMarcus, lacking a strong foundation in mathematics, had made an error manipulating an equation; Raven was stuck on the third step of a problem, the step which always seemed to give her trouble; and Josh was just staring at the wall, averting his eyes from the paper, completely intimidated by the words and numbers on the test. My students were frustrated because they desperately wanted to be successful and they could not succeed at solving the problems. And at that moment it hit me, the failure was really my own.

By relying so heavily on long example problems and algebraic formulas as is done in the traditional approach to teaching physics, I was making physics inaccessible to too many of my students who came to me grade levels behind in math and reading. Worst of all, even those students who scored well on the exam, had not understood the larger picture—namely, how the process of solving the problem was a demonstration of a conceptual principle of physics, and they had not experienced any of the wonder and joy of learning physics.

So I started over, because I was determined that any student who sat in my physics class could learn and love physics. Over the last decade, through many trials and with the help and patience of my amazing students and co-workers, I developed a curriculum, I call Positive Physics. After seeing how successful my students were, I decided that this needed to become a website, so students could interact with the curriculum and I could share it with others. At first, everyone I spoke to said that I could not make this happen without a large team and immense financial resources. However, after a pick-up basketball game, I happened to share my story with my friend and incredibly talented developer, Anthony Fizer, and he said he believed we could make this happen ourselves. Less than three months later, my students were testing the first version of positivephysics.org.

The website that you are using has been revised and edited countless times based on feedback from my students and the amazing teachers who have tested the site. We hope that it helps you have a positive experience learning and teaching physics.

- Jack