What are lessons like in this subject?
What will I study?
Year 12
- Waves, including the strange things that happen when waves meet
- Particles and radiation, including antiparticles, quarks and quantum phenomena
- Mechanics and materials, including projectile motion and collisions
- Electricity, including resistivity and superconductivity
- Practical skills
Year 13
- Further mechanics,including oscillations and circular motion
- Thermal physics, including gas laws
- Fields and their consequences, including electrical fields, capacitors, gravitational fields, orbits, magnetic fields and electromagnetic induction
- Nuclear physics, our knowledge of the nucleus and its application
- An optional unit, ‘Turning points in Physics’, which builds on a range of the physics studied in earlier sections
- Practical skills
Physics is such an interesting subject. There’s nothing better than knowing that I’ll go to a Physics lesson and learn something new about the way that the universe works. It’s quite a challenging subject but very rewarding.
Lainey Aspinall, Campsmount Academy
Physics
Please note: Subject videos have been filmed from colleges across our Trust.
