Physics AS: every topic explained

Physical quantities and units

• Physical quantities (on the practice-test site)
• SI units (on the practice-test site)
• Errors and uncertainties (on the practice-test site)
• Scalars and vectors (on the practice-test site)

Kinematics

• Equations of motion (on the practice-test site)

Dynamics

• Momentum and Newton's laws of motion (on the practice-test site)
• Non-uniform motion (on the practice-test site)
• Linear momentum and its conservation (on the practice-test site)

Forces, density and pressure

• Turning effects of forces (on the practice-test site)
• Equilibrium of forces (on the practice-test site)
• Density and pressure (on the practice-test site)

Work, energy and power

• Energy conservation (on the practice-test site)
• Gravitational potential energy and kinetic energy (on the practice-test site)

Deformation of solids

• Stress and strain (on the practice-test site)
• Elastic and plastic behaviour (on the practice-test site)

Waves

• Progressive waves (on the practice-test site)
• Transverse and longitudinal waves (on the practice-test site)
• Doppler effect for sound waves (on the practice-test site)
• Electromagnetic spectrum (on the practice-test site)
• Polarisation (on the practice-test site)

Superposition

• Stationary waves (on the practice-test site)
• Diffraction (on the practice-test site)
• Interference (on the practice-test site)
• The diffraction grating (on the practice-test site)

Electricity

• Electric current (on the practice-test site)
• Potential difference and power (on the practice-test site)
• Resistance and resistivity (on the practice-test site)

D.C. circuits

• Practical circuits (on the practice-test site)
• Kirchhoff’s laws (on the practice-test site)
• Potential dividers (on the practice-test site)

Particle physics

• Atoms, nuclei and radiation (on the practice-test site)
• Fundamental particles (on the practice-test site)