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Physics A - H556
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Free Physics A - H556 revision notes for Cambridge OCR A Level students. Each chapter covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take straight into the thinka app.
Physical quantities and units
Making measurements and analysing data
1. Development of practical skills in physics
Practical skills assessed in a written examination
Nature of quantities
2.1 Physical quantities and units
Physical quantities
S.I. units
Motion
2.2 Making measurements and analysing data
Measurements and uncertainties
Forces in action
2.3 Nature of quantities
Scalars and vectors
Work, energy and power
3.1 Motion
Kinematics
Linear motion
Projectile motion
3.2 Forces in action
Dynamics
Motion with non-uniform acceleration
Equilibrium
Density and pressure
Materials
3.3 Work, energy and power
Work and conservation of energy
Kinetic and potential energies
Power
Newton’s laws of motion and momentum
3.4 Materials
Springs
Mechanical properties of matter
Charge and current
Energy, power and resistance
3.5 Newton's laws of motion and momentum
Newton's laws of motion
Collisions
4.1 Charge and current
Charge
Mean drift velocity
Electrical circuits
4.2 Energy, power and resistance
Circuit symbols
E.m.f. and p.d.
Resistance
Resistivity
Power
Waves
4.3 Electrical circuits
Series and parallel circuits
Internal resistance
Potential dividers
Quantum physics
4.4 Waves
Wave motion
Electromagnetic waves
Superposition
Stationary waves
Thermal physics
4.5 Quantum physics
Photons
The photoelectric effect
Wave–particle duality
Kinematics of circular motion
5.1 Thermal physics
Temperature
Solid, liquid and gas
Thermal properties of materials
Ideal gases
Oscillations
Gravitational fields
5.2 Circular motion
Kinematics of circular motion
Centripetal force
Astrophysics and cosmology
5.3 Oscillations
Simple harmonic oscillations
Energy of a simple harmonic oscillator
Damping
5.4 Gravitational fields
Point and spherical masses
Newton's law of gravitation
Planetary motion
Gravitational potential and energy
Capacitors
5.5 Astrophysics and cosmology
Stars
Electromagnetic radiation from stars
Cosmology
Electric fields
6.1 Capacitors
Capacitors
Energy
Charging and discharging capacitors
Electromagnetism
Nuclear and particle physics
6.2 Electric fields
Point and spherical charges
Coulomb's law
Uniform electric field
Electric potential and energy
Medical imaging
6.3 Electromagnetism
Magnetic fields
Motion of charged particles
Electromagnetism
Development of practical skills in physics
6.4 Nuclear and particle physics
The nuclear atom
Fundamental particles
Radioactivity
Nuclear fission and fusion
6.5 Medical imaging
Using X-rays
Diagnostic methods in medicine
Using ultrasound
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