AQA A-Level Physics

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.

Unit 1 Particles, Quantum phenomena and electricity

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1 Matter and radiation

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Particles, Radiation and Quantum Phenomena

Particles and antiparticles

• Atomic structure
• Particles and Anti-particles
  • Constituents of the particle
  • Forces
  • Particle-Antiparticle interactions
  • Creation and annihilation
  • Creation and annihilation 2
  • Conserving and illustrating interactions
• Quarks and sub-atomic particles

Waves and Particles

• The photon
• Waves and particles
• Mass and energy

Electromagnetic Phenomena

• Reflection, refraction and optics
• The photoelectric effect

Formulas & Resources

• List of formulas
• Past paper questions