Exam Board: AQA Advancing Physics offers you the opportunity to: • Study up to date Physics: modern ideas and applications, important trends • Develop practical and data-handling skills • Increase your understanding of the part Mathematics plays in Physics • Develop ‘How Science Works’ skills • Use information and communication technology. First year of A-Level 1. Measurements and their errors, including use of SI units and their prefixes, limitations of physical measurement, estimation of physical quantities 2. Particles and radiation, including constituents of the atom, particle interactions, collisions of electrons with atoms 3. Waves, including progressive waves, interference, diffraction 4. Mechanics and energy, including projectile motion, Newton’s Laws of Motion 5. Electricity, including current/voltage characteristics, circuits, electromotive force and internal resistance Second year of A-Level 6. Further mechanics and thermal physics, including periodic motion, thermal energy transfer, molecular kinetic theory model 7. Fields, including Newton’s Law of Gravitation, orbits of planets and satellites, magnetic flux density 8. Nuclear physics, including evidence for the nucleus, radioactive decay, nuclear instability Plus one option from: • Astrophysics, including classification of stars by luminosity, Doppler effect, detection of exoplanets • Medical physics, including physics of vision, ECG machines, x-ray imaging • Engineering physics, including rotational dynamics, thermodynamics and engines • Turning points in physics, including discovery of the electron, Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity • Electronics, including discrete semiconductor devices, data communication systems
Name: GCE A Level in Physics A Qualification title: GCE A Level in Physics A Qualification type: Assessment Exams • The minimum total number of hours for exams is 6 hours for A-Level. • 40% of the total A-Level marks require the use of Level 2 (higher tier GCSE) mathematical skills. Awarding Assessment & Qualifications Alliance Created 20160108 13:29:32 Updated 20160114 12:53:02
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Title: GCE A Level in Physics A Qualification: GCE A Level in Physics A Classification: Science and Mathematics