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The whole of physics,
derived in the open.

Every assumption is declared before it is used. Every step is justified — not just stated. Every result is told where it stops being true. The one-stop reference for students learning it the first time and working scientists checking it the last.

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~410
derivations planned
24
units · 4 years
8
concept threads
20
verified · Wave 1

Three ways in

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Follow the curriculum

Twenty-four units across four years, ordered so each result rests only on what came before. Start at mechanics, arrive at fields.

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Find one thing fast

Search by result, symbol, or law. Land on the exact derivation, see what it assumes, and check where it breaks.

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Trace a concept thread

Watch one idea — force, energy, symmetry — recur across the whole degree, from Newton's second law to Noether's theorem.

The difference, shown not told

Most textbooks hand you the answer. We show you the fine print it depends on — taken here from the Euler–Lagrange derivation, D-001.

an assumption, and its cost

Fixed endpoints

The path is varied while its start and end points are held fixed, so the boundary term [ ∂L/∂q̇ · δq ] vanishes at both limits.

Drop it — allow the endpoints to move — and that boundary term survives. You no longer get Euler–Lagrange alone; you get transversality conditions too. The "law" quietly had a domain all along.

breaks when

Where this result stops being true

  • The Lagrangian depends explicitly on higher derivatives — the variation must be redone.
  • Constraints are non-holonomic — use Lagrange multipliers instead.
  • The action is not differentiable in q (impacts, kinks).
  • The configuration space is not a smooth manifold — the calculus of variations assumes one.

Read the full derivation · D-001 →

Where students stall — Wave 1 is live

The three units that trip people up most, verified end to end and open to read now.

Unit 201 live

Analytical Mechanics

Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations — the leap from forces to action that most degrees rush.

Unit 202 live

Electromagnetism

Maxwell's equations built from the field concept up, with every gauge choice made explicit.

Unit 203 live

Quantum Mechanics

From the Schrödinger equation to operators and measurement — the postulates stated plainly, then earned.