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 [1]. 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.
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Contents
AS notes
Physics in Action
Optics
Communication
Electricity
- Charge
 - Current
 - Voltage
 - Power
 - Resistance and Conductance
 - Internal Resistance
 - Potential Dividers
 - Sensors
 - Resistivity and Conductivity
 - Semiconductors
 
Material Structure
Understanding Processes
Waves
- What is a wave?
 - Phasors
 - Standing Waves
 - Young's Slits
 - Diffraction
 - Finding the Distance of a Remote Object
 
Quantum Physics
Mechanics
- Vectors
 - Graphs
 - Kinematics
 - Forces and Power (and Energy and Work Done)
 - Fluid dynamics
 
Physics in Practice
Quality of Measurement
Physics in Use (presentation)
A2 Exams
Rise and Fall of the Clockwork Universe
Decay
Gravity
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
Temperature
Field and Particle Physics
Magnetic Fields
Electric Fields
Particle Physics
- The Standard Model
 - Quarks
 - Bosons
 - Leptons
 - Millikan's Experiment
 - Pair Production and Annihilation
 - Particle Accelerators
 - Cloud Chambers and Mass Spectrometers