Physics Paper 2

• Scalar and vector quantities

• Distance and displacement

• Speed, velocity & acceleration

• Contact and non contact forces

• Newton's Laws

• Gravity

• Resultant forces

• Stopping distances & reaction time

• Work done

• Elasticity

• Elastic Potential Energy

• Moments

Higher and Triple content:

• Momentum

Triple content:

• Changes in momentum

• Levers and Gears 

• Pressure in solids and liquids 

Required practicals: 

• Hooke's Law

• Newton's Second Law

Waves

• Transverse and longitudinal waves

• Properties of waves

• Calculating wave speed and period

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Triple content:

• Reflection

• Refaction; sound waves

• Using waves for detection and exploration

• The EM spectrum

• Convex and concave lenses

• Visible light

• Black body radiation

Required practicals:

• Speed of waves in a ripple tank and in a solid

• Infrared radiation

Required practicals (triple):

• Reflection and refraction

Magnetism and electromagnetism

• Magnetic materials

• Permanent and induced magnets

• Drawing magnetic fields

• Electromagnets

• Right hand thumb rule

• The motor effect

Higher and Triple:

• Fleming's Left Hand Rule

• F=BIL

• motors

Triple content:

• Uses of electromagnets

• Loudspeakers

• Induced potential

• Transformers and the National Grid

• Uses of the generator effect

• Microphones

Space Physics (triple only)

Triple content: 

• Our solar system

• Lifecycle of a star

• Formation of elements by fusion

• Orbital motion

• Red shift

• Big Bang Theory

• Dark matter & dark energy