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Physics A level OCR/A for Year 13

Easter Revision Course Dates

• Week 1: 30 March – 3 April
• Week 2: 6 April – 10 April
• Week 3: 13 April – 17 April

(Good Friday is 3 April; Easter Monday is 6 April)

Boards

OCR/A H556

Length of Course

5 full-day sessions

This course is board-specific for the OCR/A (H556) specification and is for A Level Year 13 students only.

The following topics will be covered:

• Mechanics (1): Resolving and adding vectors, velocity and acceleration, projectile motion, F= ma, terminal velocity, moments, Archimedes’ principle.
• Mechanics (2): Work, energy, power, efficiency, Newton’s laws, momentum, collisions, deformation of solids.
• Electric circuits: Kirchhoff’s laws, EMF, mean drift velocity, potential dividers, LDR, thermistors.
• Waves and quantum physics: Refraction, polarisation, diffraction, interference, standing waves, Young double-slit experiment, diffraction grating, EM waves, photoelectric effect, line spectra, de Broglie wavelength.
• Thermal physics and gases: Temperature, internal energy, absolute zero, heat capacity, latent heat, kinetic theory of gases, liquids and solids.
• Circular motion and oscillations: Angular velocity, centripetal force, simple and damped harmonic motion, resonance.
• Gravity, stars and cosmology: Newton’s law of gravitation, Kepler’s laws, gravitational potential, HR diagram, Wein’s and Stefan’s laws, Doppler effect, Hubble’s law, Big Bang theory.
• Capacitors and electric fields: Capacitors in series and parallel, charging and discharging capacitors, permittivity, Coulomb’s law, uniform and radial electric fields, electric potential.
• Particle physics: Alpha particle scattering, quark-lepton model, radioactivity, carbon-dating, nuclear fission and fusion, binding energy, E=mc2.
• Magnetism and medical imaging: Magnetic field patterns, Fleming’s left-hand rule, charged particles in magnetic fields, Faraday’s and Lenz’s laws, transformers, X-rays, CT scan, gamma camera, PET scan, ultrasound imaging.