A-level Physics (Advancing Physics)
Welcome to the Wikibooks textbook on Physics, designed to contain everything you need to know for the OCR Physics B (Advancing Physics) specification [1]. All sorts of useful documents for this specification are available at http://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/as-a-level-gce-physics-b-advancing-physics-h159-h559/ .
All units are assumed to be SI units, unless stated otherwise. Diagrams can be enlarged by clicking on them.
Chapters are probably marked as 75% complete (
) because they are complete, but may require some attention. Please look at these and check them!Contents edit
AS notes edit
Physics in Action edit
Optics edit
Communication edit
Electricity edit
- Charge
- Current
- Voltage
- Power
- Resistance and Conductance
- Internal Resistance
- Potential Dividers
- Sensors
- Resistivity and Conductivity
- Semiconductors
Material Structure edit
Understanding Processes edit
Waves edit
- What is a wave?
- Phasors
- Standing Waves
- Young's Slits
- Diffraction
- Finding the Distance of a Remote Object
Quantum Physics edit
Mechanics edit
- Vectors
- Graphs
- Kinematics
- Forces and Power (and Energy and Work Done)
- Fluid dynamics
Physics in Practice edit
Quality of Measurement edit
Physics in Use (presentation) edit
A2 Exams edit
Rise and Fall of the Clockwork Universe edit
Decay edit
Gravity edit
Mechanics edit
- Simple Harmonic Motion
- Energy in Simple Harmonic Motion
- Damping
- Resonance
- Conservation of Momentum
- Forces and Impulse in Collisions
- Rockets, Hoses and Machine Guns
- Circular Motion
Astrophysics edit
Temperature edit
Field and Particle Physics edit
Magnetic Fields edit
Electric Fields edit
Particle Physics edit
- The Standard Model
- Quarks
- Bosons
- Leptons
- Millikan's Experiment
- Pair Production and Annihilation
- Particle Accelerators
- Cloud Chambers and Mass Spectrometers