4 syllabus subtopics
- Physical quantities
- SI units
- Errors and uncertainties
- Scalars and vectors
Revision notes · Cambridge A Level · 9702
Physics 9702 revision notes
Revision notes for Cambridge A Level Physics (9702), organised by the official syllabus chapters.
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Papers 1 & 2 · AS Level content AS Level
1 syllabus subtopics
- Equations of motion
3 syllabus subtopics
- Momentum and Newton’s laws of motion
- Non-uniform motion
- Linear momentum and its conservation
3 syllabus subtopics
- Turning effects of forces
- Equilibrium of forces
- Density and pressure
2 syllabus subtopics
- Energy conservation
- Gravitational potential energy and kinetic energy
2 syllabus subtopics
- Stress and strain
- Elastic and plastic behaviour
5 syllabus subtopics
- Progressive waves
- Transverse and longitudinal waves
- Doppler effect for sound waves
- Electromagnetic spectrum
- Polarisation
4 syllabus subtopics
- Stationary waves
- Diffraction
- Interference
- The diffraction grating
3 syllabus subtopics
- Electric current
- Potential difference and power
- Resistance and resistivity
3 syllabus subtopics
- Practical circuits
- Kirchhoff’s laws
- Potential dividers
2 syllabus subtopics
- Atoms, nuclei and radiation
- Fundamental particles
Paper 4 · A Level structured questions A Level
2 syllabus subtopics
- Kinematics of uniform circular motion
- Centripetal acceleration
4 syllabus subtopics
- Gravitational field
- Gravitational force between point masses
- Gravitational field of a point mass
- Gravitational potential
3 syllabus subtopics
- Thermal equilibrium
- Temperature scales
- Specific heat capacity and specific latent heat
3 syllabus subtopics
- The mole
- Equation of state
- Kinetic theory of gases
2 syllabus subtopics
- Internal energy
- The first law of thermodynamics
3 syllabus subtopics
- Simple harmonic oscillations
- Energy in simple harmonic motion
- Damped and forced oscillations, resonance
5 syllabus subtopics
- Electric fields and field lines
- Uniform electric fields
- Electric force between point charges
- Electric field of a point charge
- Electric potential
3 syllabus subtopics
- Capacitors and capacitance
- Energy stored in a capacitor
- Discharging a capacitor
5 syllabus subtopics
- Concept of a magnetic field
- Force on a current-carrying conductor
- Force on a moving charge
- Magnetic fields due to currents
- Electromagnetic induction
2 syllabus subtopics
- Characteristics of alternating currents
- Rectification and smoothing
4 syllabus subtopics
- Energy and momentum of a photon
- Photoelectric effect
- Wave-particle duality
- Energy levels in atoms and line spectra
2 syllabus subtopics
- Mass defect and nuclear binding energy
- Radioactive decay
3 syllabus subtopics
- Production and use of ultrasound
- Production and use of X-rays
- PET scanning
3 syllabus subtopics
- Standard candles
- Stellar radii
- Hubble’s law and the Big Bang theory