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1.2 Uncertainties and errors 1.3 Vectors and scalars 2.1 Motion 2.2 Forces 2.3 Work, energy and power 2.4 Momentum and impulse 3.1 Thermal concepts 3.2 Modelling a gas 4.1 Oscillations 4.2 Travelling waves 4.3 Wave characteristics 4.4 Wave behaviour 5.1 Electric fields 5.2 Heating effect of electric currents 5.3 Electric cells 5.4 Magnetic effects of electric currents 6.1 Circular motion 6.2 Newton's law of gravitation 7.1 Discrete energy and radioactivity 7.2 Nuclear reactions 8.1 Energy sources 8.2 Thermal energy transfer HL additional topics
9.1 Simple harmonic motion 9.2 Single-slit diffraction 9.3 Interference 9.4 Resolution 9.5 Doppler effect 10.1 Describing fields 10.2 Fields at work 11.1 Electromagnetic induction 11.2 Power generation and transmission 11.3 Capacitance 12.1 The interaction of matter with radiation 12.2 Nuclear physics Option topics
A.1 The beginnings of relativity A.2 Lorentz transformations A.3 Spacetime diagrams A.4 Relativistic mechanics A.5 General relativity B.1 Rigid bodies and rotational dynamics B.2 Thermodynamics B.3 Fluids and fluid dynamics B.4 Forced vibrations and resonance C.1 Introduction to imaging C.2 Imaging instrumentation C.3 Fibre optics C.4 Medical imaging D.1 Stellar quantities D.2 Stellar characteristics and stellar evolution D.3 Cosmology D.5 Further cosmology Metric (SI) multipliers SI prefixes and powers of ten.
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Unit conversions Common conversions used across physics questions.
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