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Edexcel A-level Physics (9PH0): specification map

Every point of the Edexcel outline, in the board's own order, linked to the lesson that covers it. 13 of 13 points map onto the library; anything that does not is marked rather than hidden.

1 · WORKING AS A PHYSICIST

• 1 Quantities, units, estimation and practical technique — SI units and prefixes · Uncertainty and error · Estimation and orders of magnitude

2 · MECHANICS

• 2 Motion, forces, momentum, work, energy and power — Scalars and vectors · Moments and equilibrium · Motion graphs and the SUVAT equations · Projectile motion · Newton's laws and the resultant force · Mass and weight · Drag and terminal speed · Momentum and impulse · Work, energy and power · Conservation of energy

3 · ELECTRIC CIRCUITS

• 3 Current, resistance, circuits, EMF and potential dividers — Current, charge and the direction problem · Current-voltage characteristics · Resistivity and superconductivity · Circuits and Kirchhoff's laws · Potential dividers · EMF and internal resistance

4 · MATERIALS

• 4 Density, fluids and viscosity, Hooke's law and the Young modulus — Drag and terminal speed · Density and Hooke's law · Stress, strain and the Young modulus · Fluids: pressure, upthrust and viscosity

5 · WAVES AND THE PARTICLE NATURE OF LIGHT

• 5 Wave behaviour, superposition, refraction, photons and duality — Progressive waves · Longitudinal, transverse and polarisation · Stationary waves · Refraction and total internal reflection · Diffraction and the single slit · Interference and Young's double slit · Diffraction gratings · The photoelectric effect · Collisions of electrons with atoms · Energy levels and photon emission · Wave-particle duality

6 · FURTHER MECHANICS

• 6 Momentum in two dimensions and circular motion — Momentum and impulse · Circular motion

7 · ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELDS

• 7 Electric fields, capacitance, magnetic fields and induction — Coulomb's law and electric field strength · Electric potential · Comparing electric and gravitational fields · Capacitors and energy stored · Charging and discharging · The time constant and exponential decay · Magnetic flux density and the force on a wire · Force on a moving charge · Magnetic flux and flux linkage · Electromagnetic induction: Faraday and Lenz · Alternating currents · Transformers

8 · NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS

• 8 The nuclear atom, particle classification, quarks and accelerators — Constituents of the atom · Stable and unstable nuclei · Antimatter and photons · Particle interactions and exchange particles · Classification of particles · Quarks and antiquarks · Conservation laws · Rutherford scattering and the nuclear atom · Nuclear radius and density

9 · THERMODYNAMICS

• 9 Internal energy, heating, ideal gases and kinetic theory — Thermal energy transfer and specific heat capacity · Ideal gases and the gas laws · Molecular kinetic theory

10 · SPACE

• 10 Luminosity, standard candles, stellar evolution and cosmology — Star brightness and magnitude · Black-body radiation and spectral classes · The HR diagram and stellar evolution · The Doppler effect and Hubble's law · Quasars and exoplanets

11 · NUCLEAR RADIATION

• 11 Radioactive decay, half-life, binding energy, fission and fusion — Stable and unstable nuclei · Radioactive decay and half-life · Mass-energy and binding energy · Fission and fusion · Nuclear reactors and safety

12 · GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS

• 12 Gravitational fields, potential and orbits — The field concept · Newton's law of gravitation · Gravitational potential · Orbits and satellites · Comparing electric and gravitational fields

13 · OSCILLATIONS

• 13 Simple harmonic motion, damping and resonance — Simple harmonic motion · SHM systems: pendulums and springs · Forced vibrations and resonance

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