Physics

Course summary

Module 1 – Development of practical skills in physics Practical skills assessed in a written examination. Practical skills assessed in the practical endorsement. Module 2 – Foundations of physics Physical quantities and units, Making measurements and analysing data, Nature of quantities Module 3 – Forces and motion Motion, Forces in action Work, energy and power, Materials Newton’s laws of motion and momentum Module 4 – Electrons, waves and photons Charge and current Energy, power and resistance Electrical circuits, Waves, Quantum physics Module 5 – Newtonian world and astrophysics Thermal physics, Circular motion, Oscillations, Gravitational fields, Astrophysics and cosmology Module 6 – Particles and medical physics Capacitors, Electric fields, Electromagnetism, Nuclear and particle physics, Medical imaging.