A Level Physics is  available on a number of different exam boards, such as Edexcel, AQA and OCR. All Physics A Level include practical work that the students may be asked about in exams and a formal practical qualifcation.

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Practical Endorsement

The practical endrosement is a pass or fail qualifcation, asssed by the teacher. Students must complete a large number of different practicals to a good standard. It is assesed in normal lesson time and is not done under exam conditions. Providing a reasonable effort is made and a student is not frequently absent, it is hard to fail.

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The majority of content is common to all exam boards.

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Common AS Level Topics

• Equations of motion, suvats

• Projectiles, velocity as a vector

• Forces

• Forces as vectors

• Vector diagrams

• Newton's laws

• Moments, conservation of moments

• Energy, work done, KE and GPE calculations

• Power, electrical power

• Density, pressure

• Fluid pressure, hydraulics, upthrust

• Simple electric circuits

• Kirchhoff's laws

• Measuring electricity

• Current and drift velocity

• Voltage, potential difference and emf.

• Resistance, Ohm's law, IV graphs, resistivity

• Waves, reflection, refraction, Snell's law

• The electromagnetic spectrum, uses and dangers

• Interference, Young's double slit experiment, diffraction gratings

• Stationary waves, resonance and harmonics

 

Common A Level Topics

• Circular Motion

• Momentum, conserviation of momentum

• Simple harmonic motion

• Springs, elasticity, Young's modulus

• Material properties

• Thermal physics, ideal gases

• Gravtiational fields

• Electrostatics, Coloumb's law

• Magnetism, magnetic flux density, magnetic flux

• Electromagnetism, Lenz's law

• AC electricity

• Atomic structure, quarks

• Nuclear radiation, uses and dangers

• Expoential behaviour of nuclear decay

• Medical imaging, x-rays, tracers, CAT scans

• Medical treatment using radiation

• Capacitors, including exponential behaviour

• Electronics, logic gates

• Space, stars, cosmology

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