A-level Physics (Advancing Physics)
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Welcome to the Wikibooks textbook on Physics, designed to contain everything you need to know for the OCR Physics B (Advancing Physics) specification [1]. All sorts of useful documents for this specification are available at http://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/as-a-level-gce-physics-b-advancing-physics-h159-h559/ .
All units are assumed to be SI units, unless stated otherwise. Diagrams can be enlarged by clicking on them.
Chapters are probably marked as 75% complete (
) because they are complete, but may require some attention. Please look at these and check them!Contents[edit | edit source]
AS notes[edit | edit source]
Physics in Action[edit | edit source]
Optics[edit | edit source]
Communication[edit | edit source]
Electricity[edit | edit source]
- Charge
- Current
- Voltage
- Power
- Resistance and Conductance
- Internal Resistance
- Potential Dividers
- Sensors
- Resistivity and Conductivity
- Semiconductors
Material Structure[edit | edit source]
Understanding Processes[edit | edit source]
Waves[edit | edit source]
- What is a wave?
- Phasors
- Standing Waves
- Young's Slits
- Diffraction
- Finding the Distance of a Remote Object
Quantum Physics[edit | edit source]
Mechanics[edit | edit source]
- Vectors
- Graphs
- Kinematics
- Forces and Power (and Energy and Work Done)
- Fluid dynamics
Physics in Practice[edit | edit source]
Quality of Measurement[edit | edit source]
Physics in Use (presentation)[edit | edit source]
A2 Exams[edit | edit source]
Rise and Fall of the Clockwork Universe[edit | edit source]
Decay[edit | edit source]
Gravity[edit | edit source]
Mechanics[edit | edit source]
- Simple Harmonic Motion
- Energy in Simple Harmonic Motion
- Damping
- Resonance
- Conservation of Momentum
- Forces and Impulse in Collisions
- Rockets, Hoses and Machine Guns
- Circular Motion
Astrophysics[edit | edit source]
Temperature[edit | edit source]
Field and Particle Physics[edit | edit source]
Magnetic Fields[edit | edit source]
Electric Fields[edit | edit source]
Particle Physics[edit | edit source]
- The Standard Model
- Quarks
- Bosons
- Leptons
- Millikan's Experiment
- Pair Production and Annihilation
- Particle Accelerators
- Cloud Chambers and Mass Spectrometers