Crash Course Physics: study plan and how long it takes
The CrashCourse playlist is 47 videos and 7.5 hours long. Here's how long it takes at different paces, a week-by-week schedule built from the real videos, and a planner that turns it into your own daily plan.
47 videos · 7.5 hours · CrashCourse
Crash Course Physics, hosted by Shini Somara, covers motion and Newton's laws, energy and collisions, rotation, fluids, thermodynamics, electricity and circuits, magnetism, optics and waves, and modern physics through nuclear physics, astrophysics and cosmology.
Episodes are about 10 minutes, giving a broad overview of introductory physics.
Who it's for: High-school students and anyone wanting an overview of physics before or alongside a formal course.
How long does it take?
The full playlist is 7.5 hours across 47 videos. Here's roughly how many days that is at different daily watch times and speeds, counting video time only:
| Daily time | At 1x | At 1.5x | At 2x |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 min a day | 15 days | 10 days | 8 days |
| 1 h a day | 8 days | 5 days | 4 days |
| 2 h a day | 4 days | 3 days | 2 days |
Make your own schedule
The playlist link is already filled in. Press Plan, set how much time you have each day and your speed, and you'll get a day-by-day schedule with a finish date and a calendar file. It reads the live playlist, so new videos are included.
Week-by-week schedule
A sample plan at 30 minutes a day and normal speed, using whole videos so none is split across days. That's 3 weeks in total. For a different pace, start date or speed, use the planner above.
Week 1Videos 1–19 · 2h 57m
Day 1 · 23m
- 1Crash Course Physics Preview3m
- 2Motion in a Straight Line: Crash Course Physics #111m
- 3Derivatives: Crash Course Physics #210m
Day 2 · 20m
- 4Integrals: Crash Course Physics #310m
- 5Vectors and 2D Motion: Crash Course Physics #410m
Day 3 · 22m
- 6Newton's Laws: Crash Course Physics #511m
- 7Friction: Crash Course Physics #611m
Day 4 · 29m
- 8Uniform Circular Motion: Crash Course Physics #710m
- 9Newtonian Gravity: Crash Course Physics #89m
- 10Work, Energy, and Power: Crash Course Physics #910m
Day 5 · 26m
- 11Collisions: Crash Course Physics #109m
- 12Rotational Motion: Crash Course Physics #119m
- 13Torque: Crash Course Physics #128m
Day 6 · 29m
- 14Statics: Crash Course Physics #139m
- 15Fluids at Rest: Crash Course Physics #1410m
- 16Fluids in Motion: Crash Course Physics #1510m
Day 7 · 27m
- 17Simple Harmonic Motion: Crash Course Physics #169m
- 18Traveling Waves: Crash Course Physics #178m
- 19Sound: Crash Course Physics #1810m
Week 2Videos 20–38 · 3h 7m
Day 8 · 29m
- 20The Physics of Music: Crash Course Physics #1911m
- 21Temperature: Crash Course Physics #209m
- 22Kinetic Theory and Phase Changes: Crash Course Physics #219m
Day 9 · 30m
- 23The Physics of Heat: Crash Course Physics #229m
- 24Thermodynamics: Crash Course Physics #2310m
- 25Engines: Crash Course Physics #2410m
Day 10 · 30m
- 26Electric Charge: Crash Course Physics #2510m
- 27Electric Fields: Crash Course Physics #2610m
- 28Voltage, Electric Energy, and Capacitors: Crash Course Physics #2710m
Day 11 · 19m
- 29Electric Current: Crash Course Physics #288m
- 30DC Resistors & Batteries: Crash Course Physics #2911m
Day 12 · 22m
- 31Circuit Analysis: Crash Course Physics #3011m
- 32Capacitors and Kirchhoff: Crash Course Physics #3111m
Day 13 · 28m
- 33Magnetism: Crash Course Physics #3210m
- 34Ampère's Law: Crash Course Physics #339m
- 35Induction - An Introduction: Crash Course Physics #3410m
Day 14 · 29m
- 36How Power Gets to Your Home: Crash Course Physics #359m
- 37AC Circuits: Crash Course Physics #3610m
- 38Maxwell's Equations: Crash Course Physics #3711m
Week 3Videos 39–47 · 1h 25m
Day 15 · 28m
- 39Geometric Optics: Crash Course Physics #3810m
- 40Light Is Waves: Crash Course Physics #3910m
- 41Spectra Interference: Crash Course Physics #408m
Day 16 · 28m
- 42Optical Instruments: Crash Course Physics #4111m
- 43Special Relativity: Crash Course Physics #429m
- 44Quantum Mechanics - Part 1: Crash Course Physics #439m
Day 17 · 29m
- 45Quantum Mechanics - Part 2: Crash Course Physics #449m
- 46Nuclear Physics: Crash Course Physics #4510m
- 47Astrophysics and Cosmology: Crash Course Physics #469m
Tips for finishing
- Pair each episode with a few practice problems; the series explains concepts, but physics needs calculation practice.
- Two episodes a day gets you through in about three weeks.