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Physics Tutor in Montreal

Private physics tutor in Montreal with 10+ years of experience. I work with secondary school students, CEGEP students in Sciences de la nature (physics 203-SN1-RE to SN3-RE, formerly 203-NYA to NYC), and first-year university students at McGill and Concordia. Also available for French AEFE students in Spécialité Physique-Chimie at Lycée Marie de France and Collège Stanislas.

Whether you are looking for physics tutoring, science tutoring or one-on-one physics tuition to get ready for an exam, sessions are tailored to your level and program, in person in Montreal or online.

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CEGEP 203-SN1, SN2, SN3 (NYA, NYB, NYC) McGill PHYS 101/102 Mechanics & E&M In-person & Online
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Levels and programs covered

Secondary school, Quebec curriculum

Physics at the secondary level (Science and Technology, Environmental Science and Technology, optional Physics in Secondary 5). Forces, motion, electricity, optics. Preparation for ministerial exams and continuous support during the year.

CEGEP, Sciences de la nature

All three physics courses in the Sciences de la nature program: Mechanics, 203-SN1-RE (formerly 203-NYA), Electricity and Magnetism, 203-SN2-RE (formerly 203-NYB), and Waves, Optics and Modern Physics, 203-SN3-RE (formerly 203-NYC). These courses derail many students; I work in depth on each topic before the exam.

University, McGill and Concordia

First-year university physics: McGill PHYS 101 (Mechanics) and PHYS 102 (Electricity and Magnetism), Concordia PHYS 204 / 205. Problem sets, midterm and final preparation, conceptual clarity behind each formula. PHYS 101 is covered chapter by chapter with free corrected exercises: the PHYS 101 course hub.

French AEFE, Spécialité Physique-Chimie

For students at Lycée Marie de France and Collège Stanislas in Montreal: I cover the full Spécialité Physique-Chimie curriculum in Première and Terminale and prepare students for the Baccalauréat written and practical exams.

Topics covered

Mechanics

  • Forces, weight, normal reaction
  • Newton's laws, inertia
  • Kinematics, velocity, acceleration
  • Free fall and projectile motion
  • Kinetic and potential energy

Electricity and magnetism

  • Series and parallel circuits
  • Ohm's law, resistors, capacitors
  • Electric field and potential
  • Electromagnetic induction
  • Alternating current, impedance

Waves and optics

  • Mechanical and electromagnetic waves
  • Reflection, refraction, diffraction
  • Lenses, mirrors, image formation
  • Light spectrum, dispersion
  • Doppler effect

Modern physics and thermodynamics

  • Radioactivity, atomic nucleus
  • Nuclear reactions, fission and fusion
  • Ideal gas laws
  • Thermodynamics, heat and work
  • Universal gravitation, satellite motion

Your physics tutor in Montreal

I hold a French Baccalauréat, series S, with a mathematics specialisation, a B.Sc. from McGill in Computer Science, Finance and Mathematics, and an M.Sc. in Applied Computer Science from Concordia. I have tutored physics in Montreal for over 10 years across secondary school, CEGEP and university.

Physics requires understanding the concepts before writing the equations. I always start with the physical meaning of a phenomenon, then move to the mathematical formalism. Students remember a formula they understand far better than one they recite.

How physics sessions work

The first session is always a diagnostic. I ask about current chapters, the topics causing trouble, and the student's goals (catching up, preparing a midterm, getting ahead). This sets up a session plan adapted to the student, without wasting time on what is already solid.

Each session follows three steps: a review of misunderstood concepts, progressive exercises from simple to complex, and full problems applied to recent assignments or past exams. I spend time on the physical meaning before introducing equations. A student who understands why a formula applies will retain it far better than one who memorizes it.

Physics rewards regular work. A single cram session before an exam can help, but real progress comes from consistent weekly sessions. I assign exercises between sessions so what we cover together gets reinforced.

Frequently asked questions

Do you tutor CEGEP physics (203-SN1-RE to SN3-RE, formerly NYA, NYB, NYC)?

Yes. I tutor all three CEGEP physics courses: Mechanics, 203-SN1-RE (formerly 203-NYA), Electricity and Magnetism, 203-SN2-RE (formerly 203-NYB), and Waves, Optics and Modern Physics, 203-SN3-RE (formerly 203-NYC). I work with students at Dawson, Vanier, Marianopolis, John Abbott and the francophone CEGEPs, adapting to each instructor's notes and exams.

Can you help with first-year physics at McGill or Concordia?

Yes. I tutor McGill PHYS 101 (Mechanics) and PHYS 102 (Electricity and Magnetism), and Concordia PHYS 204 / 205. I cover problem sets, midterm and final preparation, and explain the underlying physics so students can solve new problems, not just memorize patterns.

Do you offer physics tutoring online?

Yes. I tutor physics online via Microsoft Teams with a shared digital whiteboard for writing equations, drawing free-body diagrams and solving problems live. In-person sessions are also available in Montreal.

Can you prepare a student for the French Baccalauréat Spécialité Physique-Chimie?

Yes. For students at Lycée Marie de France and Collège Stanislas, I prepare the full Spécialité Physique-Chimie curriculum and the Baccalauréat written and practical exams. I work on past papers, answer structure, and the chapters most frequently tested in Terminale.

Free corrected exercises, McGill PHYS 101

The full worked solution is on the page, no account and no payment. Written for the algebra-based course, so no solution starts by differentiating.

In English

Units, measurement and vectors, PHYS 101 at McGill

Ten exercises built on one idea: a physical quantity is never a bare number, and the direction is the part that cannot be added like one. Part A is the toolkit of the first two weeks, the SI base units and the conversion factor that has to be cubed, the significant figures a measurement actually earns, orders of magnitude and Fermi estimates, the components of a vector read off a right triangle, and the proof that two magnitudes of three and four add to anything between one and seven. Part B works at assessment level: three displacements summed component by component with the quadrant of the arctangent restored by hand, unit vectors and subtraction, five statements to correct, a laboratory density measured by water displacement with its percent uncertainty, and a ramp solved on tilted axes. No calculus anywhere, as the course demands: algebra, proportions and right triangle trigonometry only.

10 corrected exercises • 100 points

In English

Motion in a straight line, PHYS 101

The chapter where marks are lost to an axis nobody wrote down. Part A takes the basics: a velocity-time graph that crosses the axis, so that displacement and distance stop being the same number, the two averages and why a speed is never negative, instantaneous velocity read as the slope of a drawn tangent rather than as a limit, the four sign cases that decide whether an object speeds up or slows down, and the four equations chosen by the quantity that is missing. Part B works at midterm level: a ball thrown up from a balcony and caught below the hand, the chain from the acceleration graph to the velocity graph to the position, five statements to correct, a cyclist catching a runner with the largest lead found by symmetry and no calculus, and the ruler drop test of reaction time carried through to a stopping distance at 90 and 110 kilometres per hour.

10 corrected exercises • 100 points

In English

Projectile motion and relative velocity, PHYS 101 at McGill

Ten exercises built on one habit: rule the page into two columns and let nothing but the time cross between them. Part A sets the machinery in place, a ball leaving a bench and the speed it lands with, a launch at an angle and the apex where the velocity is horizontal rather than zero, a strobe photograph read as a laboratory measurement of gravity, the two complementary angles that share a landing point and the two balloons fired at different instants that land together, and relative velocity from a goose in a crosswind to a rainy windshield. Part B works at midterm level: a throw from a cliff, then the hammer throw record run backwards to find the launch speed, a river crossing with the heading that cancels the current, five statements to correct including a dart gun measured with a tape, a grasshopper filmed at 240 frames per second and then jumping down a 45 degree slope, and a supply drop seen from the ground and from the cockpit. No calculus anywhere, as the course requires.

10 corrected exercises • 100 points

In English

Newton's laws and free-body diagrams, PHYS 101

The chapter where the drawing decides the mark. Part A builds the diagram itself: the inventory rule that gives one arrow per contact and one per field and nothing else, mass against weight and the units that separate them, the action and reaction pair with its two different bodies, a rope pulling at an angle and the normal force that stops being the weight, and the bathroom scale in a lift where the reading changes while the weight does not. Part B works at midterm level: a block released on a frictionless incline with axes tilted along the slope, two blocks joined by a cord over an ideal pulley sharing one acceleration and one tension, five statements to correct, the traction frame of a physiotherapy ward where two cords pull at an angle, and a stretcher winched up an ambulance ramp with the cable parallel to the surface and then horizontal. No calculus anywhere: algebra, components and right-angle trigonometry only.

10 corrected exercises • 100 points

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Revision sheets, McGill PHYS 101

Not a summary of the course. Each sheet answers one question: what loses marks on this chapter, and which gesture avoids it.

Revision sheet

Units, measurement and vectors, PHYS 101

What actually loses marks on the first chapter of PHYS 101 at McGill, and the gesture that avoids each loss: the conversion factor that has to be cubed, the calculator display copied out instead of the digits the data earned, the order of magnitude read off the wrong exponent, the cosine used for the horizontal component when the angle was measured from the vertical, the calculator left in radian mode, and above all the arctangent trusted for a direction it cannot know. Eight traps with their cost in marks, a decision tree, a worked resultant step by step, and the five second checks to run before handing the paper in. No calculus, as the course demands.

8 mistakes taken apart • 12 topics

Revision sheet

Motion in a straight line, PHYS 101

What actually costs marks in the first mechanics chapter of PHYS 101, and the gesture that avoids each loss: the axis written on the first line, the four equations chosen by the quantity that is missing, a negative acceleration that speeds an object up, a velocity of zero at the top of a throw with an acceleration that is not zero, the area under a velocity-time graph read as a displacement and not as a distance, and an instantaneous velocity obtained as the slope of a tangent, never as a position divided by a time.

8 mistakes taken apart • 10 topics

Revision sheet

Projectile motion and relative velocity, PHYS 101

What actually costs marks on the projectile chapter of PHYS 101: calling the velocity zero at the top of the flight, using the symmetric time of flight when the landing height differs from the launch height, reading the parabolic path as a graph against time, dividing a river width by the ground speed, and reversing the subscripts of a relative velocity. Nine traps written as a student writes them, two decision trees, a fully annotated example and the five second checks to run before handing in the paper. No calculus, exactly as the course requires.

9 mistakes taken apart • 12 topics

Revision sheet

Newton's laws and free-body diagrams, PHYS 101

What costs marks on the dynamics question of a PHYS 101 midterm, and the gesture that avoids each loss: the arrow with no source, the normal force copied as the weight on a tilted surface, the two members of an action and reaction pair added in the same equation, the tension taken as the hanging weight while the system accelerates, and the sine and cosine swapped on an incline. Seven traps with their cost, a table of the normal force case by case, two decision trees on the choice of axes, and one worked problem with a cord over a pulley.

7 mistakes taken apart • 12 topics

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See also

Math tutoring Chemistry tutoring Computer Science PHYS 101 McGill COMP 202 McGill Practice exercises Cours de physique (FR)

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