A-level Physics (Advancing Physics)

Welcome to the Wikibooks textbook on Physics, designed to contain everything you need to know for the OCR Physics B (Advancing Physics) specification. All sorts of useful documents for this specification are available at http://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/as-a-level-gce-physics-b-advancing-physics-h159-h559/.

All units are assumed to be SI units, unless stated otherwise. Diagrams can be enlarged by clicking on them.

Chapters are probably marked as 75% complete because they are complete, but may require some attention. Please look at these and check them!

Optics

 * /Lenses/
 * /Refraction/

Communication

 * /Digital Storage/
 * /Digital Processing/
 * /Digitisation/
 * /Signal Frequencies/
 * /Bandwidth/

Electricity

 * /Charge/
 * /Current/
 * /Voltage/
 * /Power/
 * /Resistance and Conductance/
 * /Internal Resistance/
 * /Potential Dividers/
 * /Sensors/
 * /Resistivity and Conductivity/
 * /Semiconductors/

Material Structure

 * /Stress, Strain & Young's Modulus/
 * /Metals/
 * /Polymers/

Waves

 * /What is a wave?/
 * /Phasors/
 * /Standing Waves/
 * /Young's Slits/
 * /Diffraction/
 * /Finding the Distance of a Remote Object/

Quantum Physics

 * /Light as a Quantum Phenomenon/
 * /Quantum Behaviour/
 * /Electron Behaviour as a Quantum Phenomenon/

Mechanics

 * /Vectors/
 * /Graphs/
 * /Kinematics/
 * /Forces and Power/ (and Energy and Work Done)
 * /Fluid dynamics/

Quality of Measurement

 * /Data Handling/

Decay

 * /Exponential Relationships/
 * /Capacitors/
 * /Radioactive Decay/
 * /Half-lives/

Gravity

 * /Gravitational Forces/
 * /Gravitational Fields/
 * /Gravitational Potential Energy/
 * /Gravitational Potential/

Mechanics

 * /Simple Harmonic Motion/
 * /Energy in Simple Harmonic Motion/
 * /Damping/
 * /Resonance/
 * /Conservation of Momentum/
 * /Forces and Impulse in Collisions/
 * /Rockets, Hoses and Machine Guns/
 * /Circular Motion/

Astrophysics

 * /Radar and Triangulation/
 * /Large Units/
 * /Orbits/
 * /Doppler Effect/
 * /Big Bang Theory/

Temperature

 * /Heat and Energy/
 * /Specific Heat Capacity/
 * /Ideal Gases/
 * /Kinetic Theory/
 * /Boltzmann Factor/

Magnetic Fields

 * /Flux/
 * /Induction/
 * /Force/
 * /Transformers/
 * /Motors/
 * /Generators/

Electric Fields

 * /Electric Force/
 * /Electric Field/
 * /Electric Potential/
 * /Electric Potential Energy/

Particle Physics

 * /The Standard Model/
 * /Quarks/
 * /Bosons/
 * /Leptons/
 * /Millikan's Experiment/
 * /Pair Production and Annihilation/
 * /Particle Accelerators/
 * /Cloud Chambers and Mass Spectrometers/

Nuclear Physics

 * /Quantum Principles/
 * /Radioactive Emissions/
 * /Energy Levels/
 * /Fission/
 * /Fusion/
 * /Binding Energy/
 * /Risks, Doses and Dose Equivalents/