Course Content

Module 1

• Development of practical skills in physics

Module 2

• Foundations of physics: physical quantities and units, making measurements and analysing data, nature of quantities

Module 3

• Forces and motion: motion, forces in action, work, energy and power, materials, momentum

Module 4

• Electrons, waves and photons: charge and current, energy, power and resistance, electrical circuits, waves, quantum physics

Module 5

• Newtonian world and astrophysics: thermal physics, circular motion, oscillations, gravitational fields, astrophysics and cosmology

Module 6

• Particles and medical physics: capacitors, electric field, electromagnetism, nuclear and particle physics, medical imaging

Course Features

Module 1 offers the opportunity to develop practical skills that will be assessed later throughout the course.

A-level Physics offers the opportunity to understand how concepts of physics affect our day to day lives beyond that which we think of, including everything from the scale of the universe to the concepts of physics in everyday engineering around us.

Assessment

2x 2 hour 15 minutes

Written exam papers

• 37.5% of final grade each

1x 1 hour 30 minute

Written exam paper

• 26% of final grade

Practical endorsement in Physics by teacher