Physics

Course summary

From the smallest part of the human body to the largest machine on earth, Physics helps us understand how our world works. The applications and the career opportunities are extensive. All DP students will undertake the Group 4 project, a collaborative project across the sciences, working together to design, implement, assess and report on an area of scientific investigation. This project is held in the Autumn Term of the Lower Sixth. A core programme including: kinematics, forces and momentum, work, energy and power, thermal energy transfers, greenhouse effect, gas laws, current and circuits, simple harmonic motion, wave model, phenomena and standing waves, doppler effect, gravitation, electric and magnetic forces, structure of the atom, radioactive decay, fission and fusion, stars and nuclear reactions.