Textbook, tutor, grader, and test prep all in one. No outside resources or experts needed.
Mastery learning, varied question types, animations, and spaced review. Efficient learning without the frustration.
Finish each course in a year with 20-30 focused minutes/day - or get inspired and move much faster.
Track progress, set goals, and review content for your child(ren) from a connected account, without ever slowing them down. We handle teaching, practice, and grading.
Complete a test prep course, and we guarantee measurable results.
A in their dual-credit class
5 on the AP test
Anything less and you get your money back.
PhysicsGraph is a complete curriculum and instructional system that your child can move through at their own pace. The one item you may want to supplement is labs, if you require them for your child's transcript.
If your child can't understand a concept, we consider that a bug - and we will fix it! You can report an issue with a specific lesson directly in the app, or you can join our discord and ask for help there. We usually respond within 24 hours - and often much faster.
Our college-level classes are designed to be the same depth and difficulty as a college course. PhysicsGraph is perfect to use alongside a dual-credit course, so your child is guaranteed to succeed no matter the quality of their professor.
PhysicsGraph is a complete curriculum and instructional system that your child can move through at their own pace. The one item you may want to supplement is labs, if you require them for your child's transcript.
If your child can't understand a concept, we consider that a bug - and we will fix it! You can report an issue with a specific lesson directly in the app, or you can join our discord and ask for help there. We usually respond within 24 hours - and often much faster.
Our college-level classes are designed to be the same depth and difficulty as a college course. PhysicsGraph is perfect to use alongside a dual-credit course, so your child is guaranteed to succeed no matter the quality of their professor.
Physics and chemistry are where a lot of homeschool plans get stuck. The material is genuinely hard, most parents haven't touched it in decades, and tutors who can teach AP-level science are expensive when you can find them at all.
PhysicsGraph is a complete online curriculum built for students working through advanced science on their own. It tells the student what to learn next, teaches it, checks that they actually learned it, and keeps older material fresh — the jobs a good tutor would do, without the tutor.
Every course is organized as a knowledge graph: a map of topics connected by prerequisites. The student always knows what to work on next, and never gets thrown into a problem they haven't been prepared for.
Within each topic, the student sees worked examples, then practices similar problems with immediate feedback. They don't move on until they demonstrate mastery — and if they struggle, the system backs up to the prerequisite that's actually causing the trouble instead of just repeating the same lesson louder.
Once a topic is mastered, it isn't abandoned. Adaptive review brings material back at the right intervals so it sticks through exam day and beyond.
Multiple choice can check whether a student recognizes an answer. It can't teach problem solving.
So PhysicsGraph asks students to calculate, explain their reasoning, interpret and compare graphs, draw diagrams, and work through multi-step problems — and gives fast, specific feedback on all of it. Multiple choice shows up where it's genuinely useful, but it's one tool among many, not the whole course.
The honest answer to "will my kid actually do this without me standing over them?" depends on the kid. But the structure matters a lot.
PhysicsGraph uses tight feedback loops, visible progress on the course map, daily goals, and XP so that each session has a clear next step and a clear payoff. The aim isn't to make science feel like a slot machine — it's to make sure the student never sits down, wonders what to do, and drifts off. There's more on our approach in motivation and gamification.
The student's job: log in, work on the next topic, and keep going until the mastery checks pass.
Your job: set the schedule, check progress, and decide how the course fits into the transcript — as an AP course, alongside dual credit, or as an honors science credit. You don't need a STEM background, and you don't need to grade anything.
Family Mode lets you manage all of your children from one account: separate logins and progress for each learner (with or without their own email), one dashboard and one bill for you.
For AP Physics 1 and high school physics, students should be comfortable with algebra, rearranging equations, ratios and proportional reasoning, reading graphs, scientific notation, and basic trigonometry. Calculus is not required for AP Physics 1.
For AP Chemistry, students should be comfortable with algebra, unit conversions, scientific notation, proportional reasoning, and logarithms (for pH).
If a student is shaky on some of these, that's workable — the diagnostic will find the gaps and the course will shore them up. But a student who isn't solid on algebra yet should finish that first.
As a primary science course, plan on a school year at a normal pace.
As focused AP exam preparation, most students need roughly 70 to 90 hours of real work to complete a full course path, depending on where they start. A consistent schedule — say, four or five sessions a week — matters more than the total.
Dual-credit students get the most out of PhysicsGraph by starting before the college term, or by working through it steadily alongside the course.
A homeschool science course usually has to do more than one job, and families use PhysicsGraph in three main ways:
As an AP curriculum. PhysicsGraph can be the primary curriculum for AP Physics 1 or AP Chemistry, covering content knowledge, conceptual reasoning, graph interpretation, free-response writing, and practice exams. We back this with a score guarantee for eligible students who complete the course before the exam.
Alongside dual credit. Students taking physics or chemistry at a community college or university use PhysicsGraph as the structure and practice layer — especially valuable when the college course assigns hard problem sets but never actually teaches problem solving. A student who meets the same completion standard should be positioned for an A in the college course.
As an honors high school course. No AP exam or college enrollment required. The course still provides transcript-worthy rigor and builds the foundation for later science and engineering coursework.
The free trial is the real test: assign a regular work block, and see whether your student can sit down and complete topics on their own. If they can, you've found your science curriculum.
Questions about fitting PhysicsGraph into your homeschool plan? Email jeffrey@physicsgraph.com.