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Physics
Course Breakdown
Course Summary
• Exam board is OCR specification A
Paper Content Marks Duration Weighting
Paper 1 Modelling physics 100 2 hours
15 minutes 37%
Paper 2 Exploring Physics 100 2 hours
15 minutes 37%
Paper 3 Unified Physics 70 1 hour
30 minutes 26%
Summary of Content
Development of practical skills in physics
Skills of planning, implementing, analysis and evaluation
Foundations of Physics
Physical quantities and units; Making measurements
and analysing data; Nature of quantities, Proportional
relationships and graphs
Forces and Motion
Motion; Forces in action; Work, energy and power;
Materials, Density; Newton’s laws of motion and
momentum.
Electrons, Waves and Photons
Charge and current; Energy, power and resistance;
Electrical circuits; Waves, Refraction, Diffraction;
Quantum physics.
Newtonian World and Astrophysics
Thermal physics; Circular motion; Oscillations;
Gravitational fields; Astrophysics.
Particles and Medical Physics
Capacitors; Electric fields; Electromagnetism; Nuclear
and particle physics; Medical imaging.
Suggested Preparation for September
Students may find it useful to read up on the following
topics: SI units, basic algebra, trigonometry, drawing
graphs, calculating gradients.
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