Coursera · American Museum of Natural History — John Sparks
Marine Biology
Review the museum’s marine-biology course for ocean adaptations, physical conditions, species interactions, blue whales and marine ecosystems.
Explore physics, biology, chemistry, astronomy, and food-science courses, with guidance on mathematical prerequisites and working with evidence.
Science courses introduce ways to describe, measure, and explain the natural world. A broad survey builds orientation, while a university course may require sustained mathematical or laboratory reasoning. The right starting point depends on both your interest and your existing preparation.
Check prerequisites rather than relying only on a beginner label. Classical mechanics can require calculus, while an astronomy survey may emphasize concepts. Archived university material can teach enduring ideas well, but its age matters when the subject includes rapidly changing research.
Work through a problem or explain an observation in your own words. State what is measured, which model is used, and where the model may fail. For historical course material, distinguish foundational concepts from claims that need a current source.
Coursera · American Museum of Natural History — John Sparks
Review the museum’s marine-biology course for ocean adaptations, physical conditions, species interactions, blue whales and marine ecosystems.
MIT OpenCourseWare · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A free MIT mechanics course with lectures and problem-solving material on motion, forces, momentum, energy, and rotation.
MIT OpenCourseWare · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
An archived MIT biology course introducing biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and cell function through university-level material.
MIT OpenCourseWare · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
An archived university course on the behavior of solids and structures, connecting loads, deformation, material response, and engineering models.
Coursera · Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai — Avi Ma’ayan, PhD
Compare Mount Sinai’s network-biology course for biological networks, gene-expression analysis, enrichment, clustering and integration of datasets.
Coursera · University of Geneva — Martin Pohl
Geneva introduces nuclei, particles, accelerators and detectors, then examines fundamental interactions and evidence for new physical phenomena.
Coursera · Rice University — Jason Hafner
Rice examines mechanical energy, momentum, collisions, statics and elasticity as the second course in its quantitative mechanics sequence.
Coursera · Rice University — Jason Hafner
Rice develops one- and two-dimensional motion and Newton’s laws through quantitative physics problems, with algebra and trigonometry expected.
Coursera · Rice University — Jason Hafner
Rice extends mechanics to rotational motion, angular momentum and universal gravitation, building on earlier force, energy and momentum study.
Coursera · Rice University — Jason Hafner
Rice concludes its electricity sequence with alternating-current circuits, impedance and Maxwell’s equations, using quantitative physics methods.