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Physics for CCEA AS Level

Category: A-Level Physics

This important new resource is being developed in co-operation with CCEA to cover the revised AS level Physics Specification.

Following the same headings as the specification, the resource is illustrated in full colour with appropriate charts and diagrams, worked examples and tasks.

Sample examination questions are also provided throughout.

Contents

Unit AS 1: Forces, Energy and Electricity
Physical quantities
Scalars and vectors
Linear motion
Dynamics
Newton’s laws of motion
Principle of moments
Work done, potential and kinetic energy
Deformation of solids
Electric current and charge
Potential difference and electromotive force
Resistance, resistivity
Direct current circuits

Unit AS 2: Waves, Photons and Medical Physics
Waves
Refraction
Lenses
Superposition and interference
Diffraction
Sound
Imaging techniques
Photon model
Quantum physics
Wave - particle duality

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