A-Level Physics

This course indexes notes for the entire A-Level Physics course.

It is designed around the AQA A-Level specification, but is applicable to all exam boards.

Course content

Measurements and their errors
- Units
  - base units
  - decimal prefixes
- Errors
Particles and radiation
- Constituents of the atom
- Stable and unstable nuclei
- Particles, antiparticles and photons
  - antiparticle
  - antimatter
- Photon model of electromagnetic radiation
- Particle interactions
- Classification of particles
  - fundamental particles
  - hadron
    - baryon
      - proton
      - neutron
    - meson
      - pion
      - kaon
  - lepton
    - electron
    - muon
    - neutrino
  - exchange particle
  - strangeness
- Quarks and antiquarks
- Applications of conservation laws
- Photoelectric effect
- Energy levels
- Photon emission
- Wave particle duality
Waves
- Progressive waves
- Longitudinal waves
- Transverse waves

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