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

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Motion Graphs;

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Velocity and Acceleration;

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Equation of Motion;

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Resolving vectors;

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Newtons Laws of Motion;

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Terminal Velocity and Projectiles; 

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Momentum:

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Moments;

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 Materials notes

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Hookes Law and Strain Energy

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Stress and strain 

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Electricity notes

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Series and Parallel Circuits;

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Ohms Law and I-V graphs;

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Resistivity;

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Kirchoffs Laws and Potential Dividers;

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Energy and Power in Circuits;

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Internal Resistance and EMF;

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Waves notes

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Progressive Waves

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Transverse & Longitudinal Waves; Polarisation

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Total Internal Reflection

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Refraction

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Superposition and Standing Waves

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Polarisation and Diffraction

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Interference

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Photoelectric Effect

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Wave Particle Duality

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Further Mechanics notes

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Circular motion

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Centripetal force and acceleration

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Further momentum

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Electric & Magnetic Fields notes

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Electric Fields

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Electric Potential

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Capacitor basics

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Capacitors – Charging and discharging

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Capacitors – Exponential Decay

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Motion of charged particles in electric fields

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Magnetic Fields – Force on a current carrying wire

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Magnetic Fields – Force on charged particle

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Magnetic Flux and Flux Linkage

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Electromagnetic Induction

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Transformers

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Particle Physics notes

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Structure of the atom

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Rutherfords Alpha Scattering Experiment

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Matter and Antimatter

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The cyclotron and pair production

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Thermodynamics notes

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Heat, Temperature and Internal Energy

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Specific Heat Capacity and Specific Latent Heat

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Gas Laws

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Ideal Gases

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Kinetic Theory Equations

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Nuclear Radiation notes

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Ionising Radiation

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Radioactive Decay

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Mass Defecit and Binding Energy

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Nuclear Reactors

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Nuclear reactor safety

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Gravitational Fields notes

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Gravitational Potential

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Gravitational Fields

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Orbits and Escape Velocity

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Comparing electric and gravitational fields

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Oscillations (Resonance and SHM) notes

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Resonance and Damping

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Simple Harmonic Motion 1

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Simple Harmonic Motion 2 – Graphs

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Space notes

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Doppler Effect

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Expanding Universe and Hubbles Law

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Evidence for the Big Bang

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Star classification by temperature

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Stellar Evolution

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Stellar Spectroscopy

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Evolution of Large Mass Stars

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Hertzprung-Russell diagrams

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Life Cycle of Stars and H-R diagrams

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