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A-level Physics

Mechanics, waves, electricity, fields and nuclear physics as the A-level papers ask them. Placeholder content.

10 lessons · about 3.3 hours · Final year of school, preparing for A-level physics

The syllabus, mapped

  1. 01Mechanics and materials — The largest topic and the first paper's core.
  2. 02Waves and optics — Examined every year, often with a practical context.
  3. 03Electricity and circuits — Where careless sign errors cost most.
  4. 04Fields: gravitational, electric, magnetic — The second paper's backbone.
  5. 05Nuclear and particle physics — Short questions, easy marks if learned.

The 10 lessons

  1. 01Mechanics and materials: the ideas · free
  2. 02Mechanics and materials: exam problems
  3. 03Waves and optics: the ideas
  4. 04Waves and optics: exam problems
  5. 05Electricity and circuits: the ideas
  6. 06Electricity and circuits: exam problems
  7. 07Fields: gravitational, electric, magnetic: the ideas
  8. 08Fields: gravitational, electric, magnetic: exam problems
  9. 09Nuclear and particle physics: the ideas
  10. 10Nuclear and particle physics: exam problems

The first lesson is free. The other 9 (3.3 hours in all) cost $8.42 bought together.

Or $1.70 a lesson one at a time, or $20.00 a month for Minimal — cheaper once you take more than ~11 lessons a month.

Try a block from the first lesson: Mechanics and materials: the ideas
Simulation · friction on a slopeSLIDING
22°
Speed vs timeDistance vs time
a1.40 m/s²v0.00 m/st0.00 s

Gravity down the slope beats friction, so the block accelerates at a constant 1.40 m/s². That's why speed climbs in a straight line while distance curves upward — distance is the area under the speed graph. Mass never appears in either sum.

A book rests on a table tilted at 30°. Compared with the book's weight mgmg, the normal force from the table is

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