Physics

Course summary

Year 1/AS AS level is assessed through two exam papers (50% and lasting 1 hr 30 mins each). In addition to the content met in each unit, each paper will have questions which relate to the core practicals. The paper may include multiple-choice, short open, open-response, calculations and extended writing questions. Paper 1: Mechanics, which includes motion graphs, Newton's Laws, Vectors, Equations of Motion and Work, Energy and Power and Electricity which includes Current Electricity, Ohm's Law, Resistivity, EMF and internal resistance and Potential Dividers, Nuclear Particles and Radiation, Materials, which includes Hooke’s Law, Stoke's Law and Young's Modulus and Waves and Particle Model of Light which includes refraction, total internal reflection, standing waves and lenses.). Paper 2: Paper 2 includes synoptic questions on all topics listed in Paper 1 above as well as questions on experimental methods (including questions on core practicals. Year 2 The course leading to the Advanced Physics qualification is examined through three written papers of 2 hour duration each. Paper 1 and Paper 2 contributes 34% each to total A level mark and Paper 3 contributes 32%. All students follow the same course. In Year 2 there are 3 papers to be taken at the end of the year. Paper 1: includes building upon the knowledge of topics listed for AS as well as Further Mechanics, Electric and Magnetic Fields, Nuclear and Particle Physics, Thermodynamics, Space, Nuclear Radiation, Gravitational Fields and Oscillations Paper 2 includes synoptic questions and experimental skills questions of all topics covered in Paper 1. Paper 3: includes questions on the Optional Module chosen, which will be Astronomy.