Physics Lessons

SI units and physical quantities

Practical methods and uncertainties

Scientific communication and validation

SUVAT and motion graphs

Scalars, vectors and projectiles

Newton's laws and free-body diagrams

Momentum, moments and equilibrium

Work, energy and power

Current, potential difference and resistance

Series and parallel circuits

I-V characteristics and resistivity

Potential dividers and sensors

EMF and internal resistance

Density, upthrust and viscous drag

Hooke's law and stiffness

Stress, strain and Young modulus

Force-extension graphs and elastic energy

Wave properties and wave equation

Superposition and stationary waves

Refraction and total internal reflection

Lenses and optical images

Diffraction and polarisation

Electron diffraction and de Broglie wavelength

Photons, photoelectric effect and line spectra

Impulse and two-dimensional momentum

Elastic and inelastic collisions

Circular motion

Electric fields and Coulomb's law

Electric potential and energy

Capacitors and RC circuits

Magnetic forces

Alternating currents and rms values

Nuclear atom and alpha scattering

Accelerators, detectors and particle tracks

Mass-energy and relativistic effects

Quark-lepton model and particle interactions

Specific heat capacity and latent heat

Internal energy and kinetic theory

Ideal gases

Black-body radiation

Luminosity, intensity and distance

Hertzsprung-Russell diagrams and stellar evolution

Doppler effect, redshift and Hubble's law

Age, fate and dark matter in the universe

Binding energy, fission and fusion

Half-life and radioactive decay equations

Gravitational fields and Newton's law

Gravitational potential

Orbits and satellites

Oscillator graphs

Resonance and damping

Energy in oscillations