Terms of Service

Last updated: June 10, 2026

College Physics Answers (collegephysicsanswers.com, the “Service”) is operated by Shaun Dychko (“we”, “us”). The Service provides screencast video solutions to problems in the OpenStax “College Physics” textbooks. By creating an account, subscribing, or using the Service, you agree to these Terms of Service, our Privacy Policy, and our Refund Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

Your account

You need an account to subscribe and to use features like comments and watch history. You agree to provide a valid email address, to keep your login credentials confidential, and to be responsible for all activity under your account. An account is for one person: sharing your credentials with others, or using someone else’s account, is not permitted. If you believe your account has been compromised, contact us at support@collegephysicsanswers.com.

Acceptable use

A subscription grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to stream the solution videos and view the written solutions for your own individual study. You may not:

  • share, sell, or lend your account credentials, or pool a single subscription across multiple people, a class, or an institution;
  • download, record, screen-capture, scrape, or otherwise copy the videos or written solutions, or redistribute or republish them anywhere (including file-sharing sites, social media, homework “help” sites, or course packs);
  • circumvent, or attempt to circumvent, the paywall, free-trial limits, or any other access control;
  • use automated tools (bots, crawlers, bulk downloaders) to access the Service, or use the content to train machine-learning models;
  • post comments that are abusive, spam, or infringe someone else’s rights.

The Service is a study aid. You are responsible for using it in a way that complies with your school’s academic integrity policies.

Subscriptions and billing

Paid access is sold as an auto-renewing subscription in three plan lengths: monthly, semester (billed every 4 months), and annual. Current prices are shown on the pricing page and at checkout before you confirm. By subscribing you authorize us (via our payment processor, Stripe) to charge your payment method the plan price at the start of each billing period automatically, until you cancel.

  • Renewal — your subscription renews at the end of each billing period (monthly, every 4 months, or yearly, depending on your plan) at the then-current price for your plan. If a price changes, we will notify you before it applies to your renewal.
  • Cancellation — you can cancel at any time from your account page. Cancellation stops future renewals; you keep access until the end of the period you have already paid for. Refunds are governed by the Refund Policy.
  • Failed payments — if a renewal charge fails, we may retry it; if it continues to fail, your subscription and access end.

Free trial

New subscribers who have not previously held a subscription (on this platform or its predecessor) receive a 7-day free trial. You must provide a payment method to start the trial. Unless you cancel before the trial ends, the trial converts automatically into a paid subscription and your payment method is charged the plan price you selected. If you cancel during the trial, you are not charged and access ends when the trial does. One trial per person: creating additional accounts or using additional payment methods to obtain repeated trials is not permitted, and we use payment-method fingerprinting to detect this (see the Privacy Policy).

Intellectual property

The solution videos, written solutions, images, and all other content we create are our copyrighted property. Subscribing gives you a license to view them as described above — it does not transfer any ownership to you, and the license ends when your subscription does. The OpenStax “College Physics” textbooks are published by OpenStax under a Creative Commons license; our solutions are an independent work and are not affiliated with or endorsed by OpenStax or Rice University.

Your content

You retain ownership of comments you post. By posting, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free license to display, store, and moderate your comments as part of operating the Service. We may remove comments that violate these terms.

Termination

We may suspend or terminate your account if you materially violate these terms — in particular credential sharing, redistribution of content, trial abuse, or circumventing access controls. Where practical we will warn you first, but for serious violations we may terminate immediately. You may stop using the Service and request account deletion at any time as described in the Privacy Policy.

Disclaimer and limitation of liability

The Service is provided “as is”. While we work hard to make the solutions accurate, we do not warrant that they are error-free, that the Service will be uninterrupted, or that it will meet your particular needs (including any particular grade or exam outcome). To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total liability for any claim arising out of the Service is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose, and we are not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you; nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot be excluded by law, including your non-waivable rights as a consumer.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of British Columbia and the federal laws of Canada applicable there. Disputes will be resolved in the courts of British Columbia, except where the consumer-protection law of your place of residence gives you the right to bring proceedings locally.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms from time to time. When we make material changes, we will update the “Last updated” date above, record the change in the changelog below, and — for changes that affect billing — notify subscribers by email before the change takes effect. Continued use of the Service after a change takes effect constitutes acceptance of the revised terms.

Contact

Questions about these terms: support@collegephysicsanswers.com. See also our contact page.

Changelog

  • June 10, 2026 — Initial version for the relaunched site: documented Stripe subscription billing with auto-renewal, the 7-day free trial conversion behavior, and the personal-use license for solution content.