OCR A-level Physics A

What is included

What this course covers

• Topic 1 — Development of practical skills in physics

  • 1.1 – Practical skills assessed in a written examination
  • 1.2 – Practical skills assessed in the practical endorsement

• Topic 2 — Foundations of physics

  • 2.1 – Physical quantities and units
  • 2.2 – Making measurements and analysing data
  • 2.3 – Nature of quantities: scalars and vectors

• Topic 3 — Forces and motion

  • 3.1 – Motion
  • 3.2 – Forces in action
  • 3.3 – Work, energy and power
  • 3.4 – Materials
  • 3.5 – Newton’s laws of motion and momentum

• Topic 4 — Electrons, waves and photons

  • 4.1 – Charge and current
  • 4.2 – Energy, power and resistance
  • 4.3 – Electrical circuits
  • 4.4 – Waves
  • 4.5 – Quantum physics

• Topic 5 — Newtonian world and astrophysics

  • 5.1 – Thermal physics
  • 5.2 – Circular motion
  • 5.3 – Oscillations
  • 5.4 – Gravitational fields
  • 5.5 – Astrophysics and cosmology

• Topic 6 — Particles and medical physics

  • 6.1 – Capacitors
  • 6.2 – Electric fields
  • 6.3 – Electromagnetism
  • 6.4 – Nuclear and particle physics
  • 6.5 – Medical imaging

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