Physics

Course summary

From September 2017, we will offer the OCR Physics A course. In Year 12 students will study Forces and Motion and Electrons Waves and Photons. In Year 13, they will move onto the Newtonian World and Astrophysics, and then Particle and Medical Physics. Whilst the course builds on many of the GCSE topic areas, the demands are far greater, especially in terms of the maths skills you are expected to use, but also in terms of concise explanations of difficult concepts. The course has a significant practical element. There are a certain number of experiments and investigations which you are required to undertake, as well as many more which are used to help you understand concepts or develop important skills. There is an expectation that you will do a great deal of work as homework so that lesson time can be devoted to clearing up any problems you have encountered in your private or small group study. When students prepare properly in advance, much of your lesson time can then be spent discussing science instead of doing written work.