Your student should have completed an algebra 1 course prior to taking this physics course. This is a rigorous math-based, physics course. 

We recommend students take this course in the 11th or 12 grade. Many parents choose to list this course as an honors course on their student’s high school transcript. There is a lot of math and the course moves at a fast pace to cover all of the material.

If you are looking for a class for younger students or students you’re not sure would be able to keep up with the pace of this course, we recommend checking out our Astronomy, Biology, or Earth Science courses. These courses are less advanced, but still appropriate for students seeking a science class for high school credit.

You’ll have immediate access to the course as soon as you register!

Since this course is self-paced, you, the parent, have control over when your student begins the course. You can start as soon as you register, or wait a few weeks or months. Beginning the course is as easy as pressing a button. Once you begin the course for your student, they will have one year to access the course.

You’ll have access to the course for one year of access — you decide when your student begins the course. There are 35 weekly lessons, so that should provide ample time for your student to complete the course. Once each video is live, your student can watch and re-watch it anytime they would like to throughout the duration of the course.

No, students can watch the lessons any time throughout the week. Once released, each video can be reviewed as many times as the student wants through the end of the course.

In most states, students need to accumulate at least 120 hours of instruction and course work to receive a high school credit.

Many parents choose to record Discover Physics as an honors level lab-science on their student’s high school transcript. We recommend your student complete all of the following to accumulate the necessary course hours for high school credit:

• complete all the course lectures
• take all the quizzes and exams
• complete recommended readings
• watch laboratory videos and complete a minimum of 15 lab assignments

How you use this course and the resources available is ultimately up to you, the parent, as this is a homeschool course.

In the upper level course, each student receives their own grade, online portal, and auto-graded quiz so each student should enroll separately. We do offer generous multi-student discounts for families enrolling more than one student in the class at the same time.

We believe parents are best equipped to determine their students’ educational needs. As a homeschool course, you’re welcome to choose whatever textbook you’d prefer for your student to use or omit textbook reading altogether if you’d prefer. For most students, anytime they can use multiple modes of learning it helps them retain information better.

After reviewing many, many textbooks we chose Conceptual Physics: The High School Physics Program because we believe this textbook does an excellent job of reinforcing the concepts students are learning in the lectures. We provide recommended reading for your student from this book. If you choose to use another textbook, you’ll need to be sure to assign students what you’d like them to read each week.

We have also created alternative reading schedules to accompany several other commonly used textbooks by homeschoolers. While we cannot vouch for every detail in these textbooks, the reading lists provided here generally overlap with what is covered in each of the lessons in the course.

In addition to our recommended textbook, Conceptual Physics, we currently have a reading list available for the following textbooks:

• Introductory Physics, Novare (2nd edition)

• Exploring Creation with Physics, Apologia (2nd edition)

• Physics, Bob Jones (3rd edition)

• Physics: The Foundational Science, Abeka (2nd edition)

We recommend students plan to complete one lesson per week to finish the course during a typical school year. Once your student begins the course they will receive access to the next lesson within 1-2 hours of completing the current lesson. This allows you the flexibility to work ahead if needed to account for vacations or time off while still finishing the course in the typical timeframe. Students will have a full calendar year to complete the course, so if they fall a week or two behind, they should still have plenty of time to complete the course.

You sure can! We’ve made sure to make the lessons applicable to those worldwide.

Students will need a number of different supplies to complete the labs and activities work. See the complete Discover Physics Lab Supply List.

It is highly recommended, though not required, that you purchase the textbook Conceptual Physics: The High School Physics Program. While this is our preferred textbook for the class, we’ve also included reading lists for several other textbooks, or you may omit textbook reading.

A PDF download of the Student Guidebook and Lab Guide are available as part of the course purchase.

We are an approved vendor with several ESAs and are continuing to add to the list all the time! We’re happy to provide you with invoices or other information you need to submit to your ESA. You can see all the ESAs we’re currently approved vendors with and/or submit a request for us to apply to the ESA in your state. 

We offer co-op pricing for groups of 4 or more who have designated a single instructor/ facilitator. Co-op courses are designed for groups that are meeting at least weekly. 

Our co-op courses are set up differently than our family programs to accommodate groups. You can learn more about our co-op courses here. 

Please note: because of the way our group programs are set up, we are not able to communicate with individual parents of students within co-ops.

We offer a 100% money-back, happiness guarantee within 30 days of the course start date OR 6 months from purchase date (whichever isless). Simply email us and we’ll give you a full refund.