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AS Level – Physics Cambridge

AS Level Physics

Cambridge

Course Description :

Units and measurements; brief review of vectors; Newton’s laws of motion; projectile motion; work and energy; impulse and momentum; rotational dynamics; equilibrium of a rigid body; periodic motion.

Duration :

16 Weeks

Mode of Delivery :

Interactive Live Online Sessions

Lectures :

Number of Lectures Per Month : 12 Lectures (Including Revision Classes for Midterm and Final Exams)

7

Jai Kumar Verma

Aerospace Engineer

Per Month

Total Classes

12

Price Per Month

Group Classes

50

BD

Price Per Month

Private

70

BD


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Module Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, students should be able to


Kinematics – Describing Motion


  • Speed.
  • Distance and displacement, scalar and vector.
  • Speed and velocity.
  • Displacement–time graphs.
  • Combining displacements.
  • Combining velocities.


  •  The meaning of acceleration.
  • Calculating acceleration.
  • Units of acceleration.
  • Deducing acceleration.
  • Deducing displacement.
  • Measuring velocity and acceleration.
  • Determining velocity and acceleration in the laboratory.
  • The equations of motion.
  • Deriving the equations of motion.
  • Uniform and non-uniform acceleration.
  • Acceleration caused by gravity.
  • Determining ‘g’.
  • Motion in two dimensions – projectiles.
  • Understanding projectiles.


  • Calculating the acceleration.
  • Understanding SI units.
  • The pull of gravity.
  • Mass and inertia.
  • Top speed.
  • Moving through fluids.
  • Identifying forces.
  • Newton’s third law of motion.


  • Combining forces.
  • Components of vectors.
  • Centre of gravity.
  • The turning effect of a force.
  • The torque of a couple.


  • Doing work, transferring energy.
  • Gravitational potential energy.
  • Kinetic energy.
  • g.p.e.–k.e. transformations.
  • Down, up, down – energy changes.
  • Energy transfers.
  • Power.


  • The idea of momentum.
  • Modelling collisions.
  • Understanding collisions.
  • Explosions and crash-landings.
  • Collisions in two dimensions.
  • Momentum and Newton’s laws.
  • Understanding motion.


  • Density.
  • Pressure.
  • Compressive and tensile forces.
  • Stretching materials.
  • Elastic potential energy.


  • Attraction and repulsion.
  • The concept of an electric field.
  • Electric field strength.
  • Force on a charge.


  • Circuit symbols and diagrams.
  • Electric current.
  • An equation for current.
  • The meaning of voltage.
  • Electrical resistance.
  • Electrical power.


  • Kirchhoff’s first law.
  • Kirchhoff’s second law.
  • Applying Kirchhoff’s laws.
  • Resistor combinations.


  • The I–V characteristic for a metallic conductor.
  • Ohm’s law.
  • Resistance and temperature.
  • Resistivity.


  • • Understand the definition of the definite integral and its properties.
  • Differentiate between differentiation and integration as inverse processes.
  • Apply the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus to evaluate definite integrals.


  • Internal resistance.
  • Potential dividers.
  • Potentiometer circuits.


  • Describing waves.
  • Longitudinal and transverse waves.
  • Wave energy.
  • Wave speed.
  • The Doppler effect.
  • Electromagnetic waves.
  • Electromagnetic radiation.
  • Orders of magnitude.
  • The nature of electromagnetic waves.


  • The principle of superposition of waves.
  • Diffraction of waves.
  • Interference.
  • The Young double-slit experiment.
  • Diffraction gratings.


  • From moving to stationary.
  • Nodes and antinodes.
  • Formation of stationary waves.
  • Determining the wavelength and speed of sound.


  • Looking inside the atom.
  • Alpha-particle scattering and the nucleus.
  • A simple model of the atom. 
  • Nucleons and electrons. 
  • Forces in the nucleus. 
  • Fundamental particles.
  • Families of particles. 
  • Discovering radioactivity.
  • Radiation from radioactive substances. 
  • Discovering neutrinos. 
  • Fundamental families. 
  • Fundamental forces. 
  • Properties of ionising radiation.


  •  Practical work in physics.
  • Using apparatus and following instructions.
  • Gathering evidence.
  • Precision, accuracy, errors and uncertainties.
  • Finding the value of uncertainty.
  • Percentage uncertainty. 
  • Recording results. 
  • Analysing results. 
  • Testing a relationship. 
  • Identifying limitations in procedures suggesting improvements.



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