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Edexcel A Level Physics Revision and Worked Examples

Below are links to all the Edexcel A-level Physics revision notes and worked examples:

1. Working as a Physicist

1.1 Physical quantities and units

1.2 Measurements and uncertainties

2. Mechanics

2.1 Scalar and vector quantity

2.2 Kinematics

2.3 Linear motion and projectile motion

2.4 Dynamics

2.5 Equilibrium and moments

2.6 Work and conservation of energy

2.7 Kinetic and potential energies

2.8 Power and efficiency

2.9 Newton's law of motion and momentum

2.10 Collisions and explosions

3. Electric circuits

3.1 Charge and current

3.2 Circuit symbols, e.m.f and potential difference

3.3 Resistance and Resistivity

3.4 Power

3.5 Series and parallel circuit

3.6 Internal resistance

3.7 Potential dividers

Other useful material

4. Materials

4.1 Density and upthrust

4.2 Drag

4.3 Terminal velocity

4.4 Solid material properties

5. Waves and particle nature of light

5.1 Wave motion

5.2 Polarisation and refraction

5.3 Superposition

5.4 Stationary waves

5.5 Optics

5.6 Photons

5.7 The Photoelectric effect

5.8 Wave-particle duality

5.9 Pulse-echo technique

5.10 Energy levels in atoms

6. Further mechanics

6.1 Impulse

6.2 Collisions and 2D momentum

6.3 Kinematics of circular motion

6.4 Centripetal force

7. Electric and Magnetic fields

7.1 Capacitors

7.1.0 Capacitor Discharge Curves

7.2 Electric fields

7.3 Magnetic fields

7.4 Motion of charged particles

7.5 Electromagnetism

8.Nuclear and particle physics

8.1 The nuclear atom

8.2 Fundamental particles

8.3 Particle accelerators

9. Thermodynamics

9.1 Temperature

9.2 Solid, liquid and gas

9.3 Thermal properties of materials

9.4 Ideal gases

10. Nuclear radiation

10.1 Radioactivity

10.1.0 Radioactivity - modelling radioactive decay

10.2 Nuclear fission and fusion

11. Gravitational fields

11.1 Gravitation and planetary motion

12. Space

12.1 Stars and Hertzsprung Russell diagram

12.2 Electromagnetic radiation from stars

12.3 Cosmology

13. Oscillations

13.1 Simple harmonic motion

13.2 Damping

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