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Edexcel A-level Physics 9PH0
204 points in 13 topics, with Edexcel's codes and titles.
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T1 Working as a Physicist
- 1 Base and derived quantities and SI units
- 2 Practical skills and techniques
- 3 Estimating physical quantities
- 4 Limitations of physical measurement
- 5 Communicating information and ideas
- 6 Applications, implications, benefits and risks of science
- 7 Scientific community validating knowledge
- 8 Science informing decision making
T2 Mechanics
- 9 Equations of uniformly accelerated motion
- 10 Motion graphs
- 11 Quantities from slopes and areas of motion graphs
- 12 Scalar and vector quantities
- 13 Resolving vectors
- 14 Resultant of two coplanar vectors
- 15 Projectile motion
- 16 Free-body force diagrams
- 17 Newton's first and second laws
- 18 Gravitational field strength and weight
- 19 Core practical: acceleration of a falling object
- 20 Newton's third law
- 21 Momentum
- 22 Conservation of linear momentum
- 23 Moment of a force
- 24 Centre of gravity and principle of moments
- 25 Work done by a force
- 26 Kinetic energy
- 27 Gravitational potential energy
- 28 Conservation of energy
- 29 Power, energy and time
- 30 Efficiency
T3 Electric Circuits
- 31 Electric current as rate of flow of charge
- 32 Potential difference
- 33 Resistance and Ohm's law
- 34 Current distribution and charge conservation
- 35 Potential difference distribution and energy conservation
- 36 Resistors in series and parallel
- 37 Electrical power and energy
- 38 Current-potential difference graphs
- 39 Resistivity
- 40 Core practical: resistivity of a material
- 41 Charge carrier density and resistivity
- 42 Potential along a current-carrying wire
- 43 Potential divider circuits
- 44 Potential dividers with thermistors and LDRs
- 45 Emf and internal resistance
- 46 Core practical: emf and internal resistance of a cell
- 47 Resistance and temperature
- 48 Resistance and illumination
T4 Materials
- 49 Density
- 50 Upthrust
- 51 Viscous drag and Stokes' law
- 52 Core practical: viscosity by falling-ball method
- 53 Hooke's law
- 54 Stress, strain and the Young modulus
- 55 Force-extension graphs and deformation terms
- 56 Stress-strain graphs and breaking stress
- 57 Core practical: Young modulus of a material
- 58 Elastic strain energy
T5 Waves and Particle Nature of Light
- 59 Wave terms: amplitude, frequency, period, speed, wavelength
- 60 The wave equation
- 61 Longitudinal waves
- 62 Transverse waves
- 63 Graphs of waves
- 64 Core practical: speed of sound in air
- 65 Superposition, interference and phase
- 66 Phase difference and path difference
- 67 Standing waves, nodes and antinodes
- 68 Speed of a transverse wave on a string
- 69 Core practical: frequency of a vibrating string
- 70 Intensity of radiation
- 71 Refraction and refractive index
- 72 Critical angle
- 73 Total internal reflection
- 74 Measuring refractive index
- 75 Focal length of lenses
- 76 Ray diagrams for lenses
- 77 Power of a lens
- 78 Lenses in combination
- 79 Real and virtual images
- 80 The thin lens equation
- 81 Magnification
- 82 Plane polarisation
- 83 Diffraction and Huygens' construction
- 84 Diffraction grating equation
- 85 Core practical: wavelength using a diffraction grating
- 86 Electron diffraction and wave nature of electrons
- 87 The de Broglie equation
- 88 Transmission and reflection at an interface
- 89 Pulse-echo techniques
- 90 Wave and photon models of radiation
- 91 Photon energy E = hf
- 92 Photon absorption and photoelectron emission
- 93 Threshold frequency and work function
- 94 The electronvolt
- 95 Photoelectric effect as evidence for photons
- 96 Atomic line spectra and energy levels
T6 Further Mechanics
- 97 Impulse and change of momentum
- 98 Core practical: force and change of momentum
- 99 Momentum conservation in two dimensions
- 100 Core practical: analysing collisions with ICT
- 101 Elastic and inelastic collisions
- 102 Kinetic energy in terms of momentum
- 103 Angular displacement in radians
- 104 Angular velocity
- 105 Centripetal acceleration
- 106 Centripetal force and circular motion
- 107 Equations for centripetal force
T7 Electric and Magnetic Fields
- 108 Electric fields
- 109 Electric field strength
- 110 Coulomb's law
- 111 Electric field of a point charge
- 112 Electric field and electric potential
- 113 Uniform field between parallel plates
- 114 Potential in a radial field
- 115 Field lines and equipotentials
- 116 Capacitance
- 117 Energy stored by a capacitor
- 118 Capacitor charge and discharge curves
- 119 Core practical: capacitor charging and discharging
- 120 Exponential discharge equations
- 121 Magnetic flux density, flux and flux linkage
- 122 Force on a moving charge in a magnetic field
- 123 Force on a current-carrying conductor
- 124 Induced emf from a moving magnet
- 125 Induced emf from a changing current in another coil
- 126 Lenz's law
- 127 Faraday's law
- 128 Alternating current terms
- 129 Root-mean-square values
T8 Nuclear and Particle Physics
- 130 Nucleon number and proton number
- 131 Alpha particle scattering and the nuclear atom
- 132 Thermionic emission
- 133 Particle accelerators and detectors
- 134 Radius of a charged particle's path in a magnetic field
- 135 Conservation laws and particle tracks
- 136 High energies to probe nucleon structure
- 137 Mass-energy in creation and annihilation
- 138 MeV and GeV units
- 139 Relativistic increase in particle lifetime
- 140 The standard quark-lepton model
- 141 Particles and antiparticles
- 142 Conservation laws in particle interactions
- 143 Particle equations
T9 Thermodynamics
- 144 Specific heat capacity and specific latent heat
- 145 Core practical: calibrating a thermistor
- 146 Core practical: specific latent heat
- 147 Internal energy
- 148 Absolute zero and molecular kinetic energy
- 149 Kinetic theory equation
- 150 Ideal gas equation
- 151 Core practical: pressure and volume of a gas
- 152 Mean kinetic energy and temperature
- 153 Black body radiation
- 154 Stefan-Boltzmann law
- 155 Wien's law
T10 Space
T11 Nuclear Radiation
- 164 Nuclear binding energy and mass deficit
- 165 The atomic mass unit
- 166 Fusion, fission and binding energy per nucleon
- 167 Conditions for nuclear fusion
- 168 Background radiation
- 169 Properties of alpha, beta and gamma radiation
- 170 Nuclear equations
- 171 Core practical: absorption of gamma radiation by lead
- 172 Spontaneous and random nuclear decay
- 173 Half-life and radioactive decay equations
T12 Gravitational Fields
T13 Oscillations
- 181 Condition for simple harmonic motion
- 182 Equations of simple harmonic motion
- 183 Mass-spring oscillator and simple pendulum
- 184 Displacement-time graphs of oscillations
- 185 Velocity-time graphs of oscillations
- 186 Resonance
- 187 Core practical: unknown mass from resonant frequencies
- 188 Energy in damped and undamped oscillations
- 189 Free and forced oscillations
- 190 Forced oscillations, resonance and damping
- 191 Damping and plastic deformation