AS Fast-Track (A level Physics)

Scalars and vectors 5 Forces and moments in equilibrium 7 Ways of describing motion 9 Equations of motion 11 Projectiles 13 Newton's laws of motion 15 Free-body force diagrams 17 Momentum and impulse 19 Work, energy and power 21 Force, extension and energy for solids 23 Stress and strain 25 Current as a flow of charge 27 Current, p.d. and resistance 29 Resistors and resistivity 31 Electrical energy and power 33 Kirchhoff's laws 35 Potential dividers and their uses 37 EMF and internal resistance 39 Types of waves and their properties 41 Reflection and refraction 43 Total internal reflection and fibre optics 45 Diffraction 47 Superposition 49 Interference 51 Standing Waves 53 Planck's constant 55 The photoelectric effect 57 Atomic line spectra 59 Wave-particle duality 61 Radioactivity 63 The nuclear atom 65 Nuclear energy 67 Particle physics 69 Fundamental forces 71 Practical physics 73 Answers 75 Index 111