Physics B (Advancing Physics) - H157

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Free Physics B (Advancing Physics) - H157 study notes for Cambridge OCR AS Level students. Each chapter below covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take into the thinka app.

Development of practical skills in physics

  • Planning and implementing experiments

  • Analysing experimental results

  • Evaluating results and refining procedures

Fundamental data analysis

  • Accuracy, precision and uncertainty

  • SI units, prefixes and estimates

  • Graphs, plots and best-fit lines

  • Combining uncertainties

Physics in action: communication

  • Imaging with converging lenses

  • Digital images, sampling and signalling

  • Polarisation of electromagnetic waves

Physics in action: sensing and materials

  • Current, potential difference and circuits

  • Resistivity, conductance and potential dividers

  • e.m.f., internal resistance and power

  • Stress, strain and the Young modulus

  • Structure and behaviour of materials

Understanding processes: waves and quantum behaviour

  • Superposition and standing waves

  • Refraction, diffraction and gratings

  • Photons and quantum behaviour

Understanding processes: space, time and motion

  • Vectors and kinematics

  • Newton's laws and momentum

  • Work, energy and power

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