AQA A-Level Physics

This book is designed to help students who are studying the AQA Specification A syllabus to understand the topics covered, as well as explaining the way in which questions are asked in exams and how they differ from other examining bodies. Don't worry about the hard-sounding names of things, the concepts in this module are really, very easy.

Mod 1   Mod 2   Mod 3   Mod 4   Mod 5

Particles, Radiation and Quantum Phenomena

[edit] Particles and antiparticles

• Atomic Structure
• Particles and Anti-particles

• Constituents of the particle
• Forces
• Particle-Antiparticle interactions
• Creation and annihilation
• Conserving and illustrating interactions

• Quarks and sub-atomic particles

[edit] Waves and Particles

• The photon
• Waves and particles
• Mass and energy

[edit] Electromagnetic Phenomena

• Reflection, refraction and optics
• The photoelectric effect

[edit] Formulae & resources

• List of formulas (formulae) used in module 1
• Past paper questions