Course outline
Aim
This course has been designed to examine the main topics covered by the Edexcel and CIE IGCSE specification. Tuition will be given to students in the form of intensive revision. The emphasis of the test sessions is on improving examination techniques through intensive study of past questions. By the end of the course every student will have revised all the important topics of Physics and will have practised his or her examination technique every day under the supervision of an experienced tutor.
Key Topics Covered
1. Forces and motion
- Movement and position
- Forces, movement and shape
- Applications to astronomy
2. Electricity
- Mains electricity
- Energy and potential difference in circuits
- Electric charge
- Circuits and components
3. Waves
- Properties of waves
- The electromagnetic spectrum
- Light and sound
- Applications to digital signals and lenses
4. Energy resources and energy transfer
- Energy transfer
- Work and power
- Energy resources and electricity generation
5. Solids, liquids and gases
- Density and pressure
- Change of state
- Conduction, convection and radiation
- Ideal gas molecules
6. Magnetism and electromagnetism
- Magnetism
- Electromagnetism
- Electromagnetic induction
- Uses in motors, generators, transformers & CRO
7. Radioactivity and particles
- Radioactivity
- Particles
- Half life
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