Physics

Assessment

Year 1 Students should gain experience of a wide variety of practical work that gives them opportunities to develop their practical and investigative skills by planning, carrying out and evaluating experiments. Content of the course covers: Topic 1: Working as a Physicist Topic 2: Mechanics Topic 3: Electric Circuits Topic 4: Materials Topic 5: Waves and Particle Nature of Light Year 2 This course includes 5 topics from AS specification. In addition to them it also contains: Topic 6: Further Mechanics Topic 7: Electric and Magnetic Fields Topic 8: Nuclear and Particle Physics Topic 9: Thermodynamics Topic 10: Space Topic 11: Nuclear Radiation Topic 12: Gravitational Fields Topic 13: Oscillations