Personal AI Physics Tutor Online That Teaches the Method
Photograph the tutorial sheet or drop in the lecture you recorded. Your tutor hints first, walks the reasoning with the diagram drawn, then asks you one back. Built for first year and second year physics, and for anyone teaching themselves the calculus based sequence.
What is the AskSia AI physics tutor?
The AskSia AI physics tutor is a personal tutoring tool that teaches the method physics papers award marks for, rather than returning finished answers. It opens with a hint aimed at the step you are stuck on, draws the free body, circuit or ray diagram alongside the working, closes with a question back to you, and builds quizzes weighted toward the topics you keep missing. Problems can arrive as a photograph of a tutorial sheet, a photograph of your own handwriting, a PDF, lecture slides, a recorded lecture or an LMS assignment. It covers mechanics, waves and optics, thermodynamics, electricity and magnetism, and modern physics, and answers in eight languages. Students on the AskSia A+ plan are additionally covered by the Grade Confidence Guarantee, which is not included on free or other paid plans. AskSia is a study aid, not an answer key.
Four stages, the way a tutor actually works
A solver ends when the answer appears. Tutoring ends when you can do the next one alone.
A nudge, not a solution
It points at the broken step and hands the problem back for your next move.
Line by line, with the picture
Ask for more and it works through the method line by line, not just the final result.
It asks you one back
A short question makes sure the next step belongs to you before you move on.
It comes back later
Weak topics return later, when retrieval is more likely to make the method stick.
It is 11pm and the set is due
Use the solver for a complete worked solution when the deadline is the priority.
Use the problem solverThe exam is in three weeks
The tutor is slower on purpose, because it leaves a method behind for the next problem.
Three habits that cost marks every semester
Marks are awarded on the working, not only on the final value, so most lost marks are not arithmetic. Your tutor watches for these three in your own attempts.
Axes left vertical on an incline
The algebra doubles and the sines and cosines swap. The tutor makes you rotate them yourself before it continues, so the habit transfers to the next problem.
Normal force quoted as mg
Deriving it from the perpendicular balance is itself a method mark. Quoting it is where the marker stops giving credit, even when the final number happens to be right.
Numbers substituted too early
Units stop being checkable and one slip contaminates every line after it. The tutor holds symbols to the last step, then runs a dimensional check.
Quizzes built from your mistakes, not a question bank
Your marks are not lost evenly, so your practice is not spread evenly. Try this one.
What this tutor covers
First year sequences through to the units that thin out the cohort. Upload your slides and AskSia follows your course's derivation order.
Studying AP Physics 1, 2 or C? The C papers reach this calculus based material a semester early. Engineering students usually arrive from circuits or statics and dynamics.
Four things a physics tutor does that a chat box does not
It knows your history, not just your question
Your next session starts with the steps that have actually been difficult, not a generic recap of the whole topic again.
It draws the diagram, not just the algebra
Diagrams are labelled and built beside every step of the working, because visual reasoning can earn marks in its own right.
It finds the first wrong line in your own working
Bring an attempt that went wrong. It finds the first step where the method changed course, then teaches that step.
It examines you the way your course does
Long-response questions need practice shaped like your own paper, not a multiple-choice bank.
Why answers do not move a physics grade
A finished solution closes one problem and will not be there in the exam hall. Physics grades move when the method becomes yours, which is why the tutor leads with a hint and holds the solution back until you ask. The teaching happens in that gap.
Personal here means it remembers. AskSia records which step of which topic broke down, not simply whether an answer was right, so weeks later revision opens on Lenz's law signs rather than on chapter one. Connect Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, Brightspace or Echo360 once and it also picks up your department's sign conventions, which is the difference between working that earns method marks and working that does not.
It tutors in English, German, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese, so you can reason through a derivation in your first language and still hand in working in the language of assessment.
Questions students actually ask
Does the AskSia physics tutor just give me the answer?
No. Every question opens with a hint aimed at the step you are stuck on. Ask again and it walks the reasoning line by line with the diagram drawn and the symbols held to the last step, then closes with a checkpoint question. You can request the full solution at any point, but the default behaviour is tutoring rather than answering.
How does an AI physics tutor actually raise my grade?
Physics papers award method marks on the working, not only on the final value. Rotating the axes, deriving the normal force rather than quoting it, justifying the friction direction and holding symbols before substituting are each worth marks on their own. The tutor teaches those steps and checks them in your own attempts.
Does it handle calculus based physics?
Yes, both algebra based and calculus based sequences, including line and surface integrals in Gauss's law, the differential equation for a damped oscillator, and the integral forms in Maxwell's equations. Upload your lecture slides and it follows your course's derivation order rather than a generic textbook one.
Can it draw free body diagrams and circuit diagrams?
Yes, and the diagram arrives with the working rather than after it. For mechanics that means a free body diagram with the axes rotated along the incline and every force labelled. For circuits it means a redrawn schematic with loop directions marked before Kirchhoff's rules are applied, which is where sign errors usually enter.
Will it use my professor's sign conventions?
It will once your course material is connected. Conventions for electromotive force, the positive direction in kinematics, and whether work done on a gas counts as positive vary between departments. AskSia reads the convention from your slides and applies it consistently.
Is using an AI physics tutor allowed?
AskSia is built as a study aid, not an answer key. Using it to understand a worked example, check which step of your own attempt went wrong, or generate extra practice sits in the same category as a tutorial or a paid tutor at most institutions. Assessment rules differ, so check your own faculty's AI policy before using any tool on graded work.
All 149 AskSia tutors
Same approach in every subject. A hint aimed at the step you are stuck on, taught from your own course material, and a question back to you at the end.
Maths and statistics
15Algebra through calculus, plus the homework pages for the nights it is due.
Sciences
11Physics, chemistry and the life sciences, tutor pages and homework pages.
Computing and data
22Every teaching language, plus theory, data and the tools courses actually set.
Engineering
8Statics through fluids, with the applied coursework pages alongside.
Business and economics
9Accounting, finance and economics, with the graphs and the statements.
Humanities and writing
13Essay subjects, where the draft is reviewed rather than written for you.
Languages
16Corrections with the rule attached, and conversation practice in the language.
AP courses
20Built around the scoring rubric as well as the content.
Exams and certifications
11Licensing and admission tests, worked in the format they are marked in.
Health programmes
7Coursework and licensing preparation, with the rationale for every option.
Study support
9When the problem is the whole timetable, or the deadline is tonight.
Comparing study tools
8What each tool is good at, and where it stops.
Learn the method. Keep the marks.
Bring the problem you are stuck on. Your tutor hints first, works with you, then asks you one back.
