A level physics notes
A full set of A level physics notes free to download. Use these to help revise for exams and to read through as you go along to build understanding. They are written for the AQA exam board but should still be useful for all other exam boards, including Edexcel, and OCR A and B.
Mechanics notes
Motion Graphs;
Velocity and Acceleration;
Equation of Motion;
Resolving vectors;
Newtons Laws of Motion;
Terminal Velocity and Projectiles;
Momentum;
Moments;
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Materials notes
Hookes Law and Strain Energy
Stress and strain
Electricity notes
Series and Parallel Circuits;
Ohms Law and I-V graphs;
Resistivity;
Kirchoffs Laws and Potential Dividers;
Energy and Power in Circuits;
Internal Resistance and EMF;
Waves notes
Progressive Waves
Transverse & Longitudinal Waves; Polarisation
Total Internal Reflection
Refraction
Superposition and Standing Waves
Polarisation and Diffraction
Interference
Photoelectric Effect
Wave Particle Duality
Further Mechanics notes
Circular motion
Centripetal force and acceleration
Further momentum
Electric & Magnetic Fields notes
Electric Fields
Electric Potential
Capacitor basics
Capacitors – Charging and discharging
Capacitors – Exponential Decay
Motion of charged particles in electric fields
Magnetic Fields – Force on a current carrying wire
Magnetic Fields – Force on charged particle
Magnetic Flux and Flux Linkage
Electromagnetic Induction
Transformers
Particle Physics notes
Structure of the atom
Rutherfords Alpha Scattering Experiment
Matter and Antimatter
The cyclotron and pair production
Thermodynamics notes
Heat, Temperature and Internal Energy
Specific Heat Capacity and Specific Latent Heat
Gas Laws
Ideal Gases
Kinetic Theory Equations
Nuclear Radiation notes
Ionising Radiation
Radioactive Decay
Mass Defecit and Binding Energy
Nuclear Reactors
Nuclear reactor safety
Gravitational Fields notes
Gravitational Potential
Gravitational Fields
Orbits and Escape Velocity
Comparing electric and gravitational fields
Oscillations (Resonance and SHM) notes
Resonance and Damping
Simple Harmonic Motion 1
Simple Harmonic Motion 2 – Graphs
Space notes
Doppler Effect
Expanding Universe and Hubbles Law
Evidence for the Big Bang
Star classification by temperature
Stellar Evolution
Stellar Spectroscopy
Evolution of Large Mass Stars
Hertzprung-Russell diagrams
Life Cycle of Stars and H-R diagrams
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