Physics (YPH11)

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Free Physics (YPH11) study notes for Pearson Edexcel International A Level students. Each chapter breaks down a key concept with examples and practice prompts you can turn into AI drills in the thinka app.

Unit 1 (IAS): Mechanics and Materials

  • Motion, Forces and Momentum

  • Work, Energy, Power and Efficiency

  • Fluids: Density, Upthrust and Viscosity

  • Materials: Hooke's Law, Young Modulus and Strain Energy

Unit 2 (IAS): Waves and Electricity

  • Wave Properties, Superposition and Standing Waves

  • Refraction, Polarisation and Diffraction

  • Photons, Photoelectric Effect and Particle Nature of Light

  • Electric Circuits: Current, Resistance and Circuit Laws

  • Resistivity, Potential Dividers, e.m.f. and Internal Resistance

Unit 3 (IAS): Practical Skills in Physics I

  • Planning an Experiment (IAS)

  • Apparatus, Range and Resolution (IAS)

  • Implementation, Readings and Significant Figures (IAS)

  • Processing Results and Graphs (IAS)

  • Uncertainties and Evaluation (IAS)

Unit 4 (IA2): Further Mechanics, Fields and Particles

  • Further Mechanics: Impulse, Momentum and Circular Motion

  • Electric Fields and Capacitors

  • Magnetic Fields and Electromagnetic Induction

  • Nuclear and Particle Physics

Unit 5 (IA2): Thermodynamics, Radiation, Oscillations and Cosmology

  • Thermodynamics and Ideal Gases

  • Nuclear Decay and Radioactivity

  • Oscillations, Damping and Resonance

  • Gravitational Fields and Orbits

  • Astrophysics and Cosmology

Unit 6 (IA2): Practical Skills in Physics II

  • Planning an Experiment (IA2)

  • Implementation, Tables and Units (IA2)

  • Log Graphs and Data Analysis (IA2)

  • Compound Uncertainties, Precision and Accuracy (IA2)

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