TCE Physics Level 4 Notes

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1. Kinematics: vectors, motion graphs and the equations of uniform accelerationMechanics · Criterion 5 — Newtonian mechanics including gravitational fields

   Motion

2. Projectile motion with different launch and landing heightsMechanics · Criterion 5 — Newtonian mechanics including gravitational fields

   Projectiles

3. Momentum, impulse, two-dimensional collisions, work, energy and powerMechanics · Criterion 5 — Newtonian mechanics including gravitational fields

   Momentum and energy

4. Newton's laws: free-body diagrams, inclines, mass-flow and horizontal circular motionMechanics · Criterion 5 — Newtonian mechanics including gravitational fields

   Newton's laws

5. Universal gravitation, gravitational fields, Kepler's third law and satellitesMechanics · Criterion 5 — Newtonian mechanics including gravitational fields

   Gravitation

6. Coulomb's law and electric fields of point chargesElectromagnetism · Criterion 6 — Electricity and magnetism

   Electrostatics

7. Potential difference, uniform fields, electron guns and Millikan's experimentElectromagnetism · Criterion 6 — Electricity and magnetism

   Uniform electric fields

8. Magnetic fields of currents, forces on wires, parallel conductors and DC motorsElectromagnetism · Criterion 6 — Electricity and magnetism

   Magnetic fields

9. Charged particles in magnetic fields: circular paths, velocity selectors and mass spectrometersElectromagnetism · Criterion 6 — Electricity and magnetism

   Charges in B fields

10. Electromagnetic induction: moving conductors, AC generators, Lenz's law and eddy currentsElectromagnetism · Criterion 6 — Electricity and magnetism

    Induction

11. Wave properties, wave graphs and pulses at boundariesWaves · Criterion 7 — General principles of wave motion

    Wave basics

12. Refraction, Snell's law, dispersion and total internal reflectionWaves · Criterion 7 — General principles of wave motion

    Refraction

13. Superposition, beats, resonance and standing waves on strings and in pipesWaves · Criterion 7 — General principles of wave motion

    Standing waves

14. Two-source interference, path difference and Young's double slitWaves · Criterion 7 — General principles of wave motion

    Interference

15. Diffraction, resolution and polarisationWaves · Criterion 7 — General principles of wave motion

    Diffraction and polarisation

16. Black-body radiation, Wien's law and the photoelectric effectModern physics · Criterion 8 — Wave-particle nature of light, atomic and nuclear physics

    Light as particles

17. X-rays, Compton scattering, photon momentum and de Broglie wavesModern physics · Criterion 8 — Wave-particle nature of light, atomic and nuclear physics

    Photon momentum

18. Energy levels, line spectra, excitation and ionisationModern physics · Criterion 8 — Wave-particle nature of light, atomic and nuclear physics

    Atomic structure

19. Radioactive decay, decay equations, activity and half-lifeModern physics · Criterion 8 — Wave-particle nature of light, atomic and nuclear physics

    Radioactivity

20. Mass defect, binding energy, fission, fusion and the Standard Model of the nucleonModern physics · Criterion 8 — Wave-particle nature of light, atomic and nuclear physics

    Nuclear energy