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/type/gce/science/physics_b/index.html .
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Contents [edit]
AS Exams [edit]
Physics in Action [edit]
Optics [edit]
Communication [edit]
Electricity [edit]
- Charge
- Current
- Voltage
- Power
- Resistance and Conductance
- Internal Resistance
- Potential Dividers
- Sensors
- Resistivity and Conductivity
- Semiconductors
Material Structure [edit]
Understanding Processes [edit]
Waves [edit]
- What is a wave?
- Phasors
- Standing Waves
- Young's Slits
- Diffraction
- Finding the Distance of a Remote Object
Quantum Physics [edit]
Mechanics [edit]
- Vectors
- Graphs
- Kinematics
- Forces and Power (and Energy and Work Done)
Physics in Practice [edit]
Quality of Measurement [edit]
Physics in Use (presentation) [edit]
A2 Exams [edit]
Rise and Fall of the Clockwork Universe [edit]
Decay [edit]
Gravity [edit]
Mechanics [edit]
- 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]
Temperature [edit]
Field and Particle Pictures [edit]
Magnetic Fields [edit]
Electric Fields [edit]
Particle Physics [edit]
- The Standard Model
- Quarks
- Bosons
- Leptons
- Millikan's Experiment
- Pair Production and Annihilation
- Particle Accelerators
- Cloud Chambers and Mass Spectrometers
