A level physics notes

A full set of A level physics notes free to download. Detailed notes written by experienced physics teacher covering the core topics of A/AS level physics. Written for the AQA exam board, but should be useful for all other exam boards, including Edexcel, CIE, OCR A, OCR B. You might also consider purchasing the workbooks for essential exam question practice.

Mechanics notes

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Motion Graphs notes;

Velocity and Acceleration notes;

Equation of Motion notes;

Resolving vectors notes;

Newtons Laws of Motion notes;

Terminal Velocity and Projectiles notes; 

Work Energy and Power notes;

Momentum notes:

Moments notes;

Materials notes

Hookes Law and Strain Energy

Stress and strain

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Electricity notes

Series and Parallel Circuits notes;

Ohms Law and I-V graphs notes;

Resistivity notes;

Kirchoffs Laws and Potential Dividers notes;

Energy and Power in Circuits notes;

Internal Resistance and EMF notes;

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

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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

A level physics workbook

A level Physics workbooks working through the 100’s of exam style questions will help develop your exam technique and ultimately improve your grades!