Help Room and Resources

The Physics Help Room has moved online for Fall 2020! Learning Assistants and Graduate Student Instructors are available to help students through virtual Help Room hours during the Fall 2020 semester. Please click the button below to view the new Help Room schedule. You will need to be signed in with your University of Michigan Google account to view the schedule. 

The Physics Department has the following resources available for students taking introductory physics courses:

• Physics Help Room
  • Graduate students, undergraduate students, and faculty are available to help students who are taking Introductory Physics classes (135/136; 235/236; 140/141; 240/241)
  • The Help Room hours of operation vary by term and are subject to change. The hours for the Fall 2020 term are:
    • Opens for the term on Tuesday, September 8 and closes on Friday, December 11
    • Closed November 23-27 for the Thanksgiving Recess
    • The Help Room is generally open Monday-Thursday from 10:00 am - 9:00 pm and Friday from 10:00 am - 5:00 pm Eastern Time
  • Current schedule is posted through the link above
• Physics Learning Assistants
  • Upper-level undergraduate students are available to help students who are taking Introductory Physics classes in the Physics Help Room 
• Problem Roulette 
  • Provides practice problems from past physics exams
  • https://problemroulette.ai.umich.edu/home/
• Society of Physics Students (SPS)
  • Student run organization for anyone interested in physics
  • Offers tutoring in the Physics Help Room during the fall and winter terms
  • Find a list of private physics tutors on the SPS tutoring website

In addition, there is also the Science Learning Center (1720 Chemistry) that provides study groups for intro physics courses.