Must-Have AQA A Level Physics Notes

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Particles Radiation

• Particles and Nuclides
  
• Fundamental Particles
  
• Electrons and Energy
• Particles of light

Waves

• Progressive Waves
  
• Combining Waves

Materials

• Properties of materials

Electricity

• Electrical circuits

• Current electricity

Further Mechanics
& Thermal Physics

• Circular Motion
• Thermal energy transfer
• Simple Harmonic motion
• Ideal Gases
• Molecular Kinetic Theory Model

Nuclear
Physics

• Nuclear instability
• Induced fission
• Radioactive decay
• Mass and energy
• Radioactivity

Astrophysics A

• Telescopes
• Single dish radio telescopes, I-R, U-V and X-ray telescopes
• Advantages of large diameter telescopes
• Classification of stars by luminosity
• Absolute magnitude, M
• Classification by temperature, black-body radiation
• Principles of the use of stellar spectral classes
• The Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagram
• Supernovae, neutron stars and black holes

Medical Physics B

• CT scanner
  
• X-ray imaging
  
• Fibre optics and endoscopy
  
• Defects of hearing
  
• Gamma Camera
  

Turning Points
In physics D

• The discovery of the electron
  
• Principle of millikan’s determination of the electronic charge
  
• Electron microscopes
  
• Einstein’s theory of special relativity
  
• Length contraction
  
• The discovery of photoelectricity
  
• Newton’s corpuscular theory of light
  

Electronics

• Real operational amplifiers
  
• The ideal operational amplifier
• Operational amplifier
  
• Analogue and digital signals
  
• Photodiode
  
• Discrete semiconductor devices
  

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Particles Radiation

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Waves

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Materials

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Electricity

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Further Mechanics & Thermal Physics

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Nuclear Physics

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Astrophysics A

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Medical Physics B

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Turning Points In physics D

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