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A-level Physics

Y12 – First year of a full A-level in Physics (AS level Physics) from September 2015

Particles & Radiation
Electromagnetic Radiation & Quantum Phenomena
Waves
Mechanics
Materials
Current Electricity

 

A2 Level Physics (second year of a full A-Level) for the course which has the last exams in the summer of 2016

Unit 4 Fields and Further Mechanics

Further Mechanics
Gravitation
Electric Fields
Capacitance
Magnetic Fields

Unit 5 Nuclear Physics, Thermal Physics and Astrophysics

Radioactivity
Nuclear Energy
Thermal Physics
Measuring distances in space – Astronomical Unit (AU), Light year (lyr), Parsec (pc)
Lenses & Optical Telescopes

Non-Optical Telescopes
Classification of Stars
Cosmology

Investigative and Practical Skills

 

7 base SI units
SI unit prefixes