Physics

Course summary

Why choose this subject? Find out about quarks and the forces that control them. Explore the structure of atoms and the powers that shape our world. Discover all about waves, energy, light and theories about the structure of the universe through this course. Combine this course with: Computing, Art, a Language. Essential if you go on to: Engineering, Design, Teaching, Research, Mechanics. Why Study This Subject? Students appreciate how, through the ideas of physics, the complex and diverse phenomena of the natural world can be described in terms of the fundamental concepts of field, force, radiation, particle structures and astronomy, which are inter-linked to form unified models of the behaviour of the material universe.