Physics

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Free Physics study notes for Common Test for University Admissions students. Each chapter below covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take into the thinka app.

Basic Physics (assumed foundation)

  • Describing motion

  • Various forces and their action

  • Mechanical energy

  • Heat and temperature

  • Waves and sound (basic)

  • Electricity and use of energy

Various kinds of motion

  • Motion in a plane and equilibrium of rigid bodies

  • Momentum, impulse and collisions

  • Circular motion and simple harmonic motion

  • Universal gravitation and planetary motion

  • Kinetic theory of gases and thermodynamics

Waves

  • Propagation of waves

  • Sound: interference, diffraction and the Doppler effect

  • Propagation of light

  • Diffraction and interference of light

Electricity and magnetism

  • Electric charge, electric field and potential

  • Capacitance and capacitors

  • Electric circuits

  • Current and magnetic field

  • Electromagnetic induction and alternating current

  • Electromagnetic waves

Atoms

  • Electrons, and the particle and wave nature of light

  • Atomic structure and spectra

  • Nuclei, decay and nuclear reactions

  • Elementary particles and the future built by physics

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