Physics

Course summary

WHAT YOU WILL BE TAUGHT: Measurements and their errors - Use of SI units and their prefixes - Limitation of physical measurements - Estimation of physical quantities - Electric fields - Capacitance - Magnetic fields Particles and radiation - Particles - Electromagnetic radiation and quantum phenomena Waves - Progressive and stationary waves - Refraction, diffraction and interference Mechanics and Materials - Force, energy and momentum - Materials Electricity - Current electricity Nuclear physics (A level only) - Radioactivity Astrophysics (A level only) - Telescopes - Stars - Cosmology Further mechanics and thermal physics (A level only) - Periodic motion - Thermal physics Field and their consequences (A level only) - Fields - Gravitational fields