Timeless fundamentals for a world with AGI.
Scientific temperament. First principles. Real power over mass and energy — still worth knowing when work-for-money fades.
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How we teach
Socratic questions. Concept Development Studies. You rebuild the model from observations — you do not memorise a handout.
Guide with questions
The teacher steers; the learner reconstructs. Explain back the model — that is the test, not a formula drill.
Foundation → model
State assumed knowledge. Ask what follows. Observe and deduce. Refine until a simple model answers the questions.
Models, not theorems
Models explain; they are not proven theorems. Prefer the simplest fit. Study by reasoning, outlining, explaining.
Pattern adapted from John S. Hutchinson’s Concept Development Studies in Chemistry (Connexions / Rice, CC BY 2.0). See the full arc on the curriculum page.
Ten themes. Physics still binds.
From how to know, through mass, energy, power and systems, to agency when wages fade — literacy for shared power, not domination.
How to know · First principles
Evidence over authority. Rebuild from axioms. Separate nature’s limits from culture’s habits.
03–06Mass · Energy · Power · Thermo
Hard budgets. Energy bills. Watts and duration. Entropy ceilings no intelligence rewrites.
07–10Forces · Measure · Systems · Agency
Move matter on purpose. Defend decisions with numbers. Feedback under stress. Contribution without wages.
Tools and refreshers that support the lessons live in Skills & resources — starting with a TRIZ refresher for First principles.
Want the whole course as practical verbs — convert, move, contain, regulate, direct — on one page? See the Control map, from your kitchen to ISRO, NASA and CERN.
For a daily dose of history, On this day: mastering mass and energy is a calendar of 175 dated feats, from Torricelli's barometer to Chandrayaan-3, one memory card per month.