Edexcel A level Physics Student Book 2 + ActiveBook (Edexcel GCE Science 2015)

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Topic 6: Further mechanics
	Chapter 6.1: Further momentum
		1: Energy in collisions
			Elastic collisions
			Inelastic collisions
			Particle momentum
		2: More collisions
			Impulse
			Collision vectors
		Thinking Bigger: End of the World?
		Exam-style questions
	Chapter 6.2: Circular motion
		1: Circular motion basics
			Going round in circles
			Angular velocity
			Centripetal acceleration
		2: Centripetal force
			Why circular motion?
			Centripetal force
		Thinking Bigger: Artificial Gravity
		Exam-style questions
Topic 7: Electric and magnetic fields
	Chapter 7.1: Electric fields
		1: Electric fields
			Pushing charges
			Electric potential
			Uniform fields
			Equipotentials
		2: Millikan’s oil drop experiment
		3: Radial electric fields
			Radial fields
			Radial electric field strength
			Potential in a radial electric field
			Combining electric fields
		4: Coulomb’s law
			Charged particle interactions
			Everyday levitation
		Thinking Bigger: Power Line Problems
		Exam-style questions
	Chapter 7.2: Capacitors
		1: Capacitor basics
			Storing charge
			energy stored on a charged capacitor
		2: Charging and discharging capacitors
			Capacitor discharge curves
			The time constant
			Capacitor charging curves
		3: Capacitor mathematics
			Discharging capacitor maths
			Capacitor calculus
			The ‘37% life’
		Thinking Bigger: Ultracapacitors
		Exam-style questions
	Chapter 7.3: Electromagnetic effects
		1: Magnetic fields
			Magnetic flux
			Flux linkage
		2: Electric motors
			Fleming’s left hand rule
		3: Magnetic forces
			Fred = BIL
			F = Bev
			The mass spectrometer
		4: Generating electricity
			Electromagnetic induction
			Calculating induced e.m.f.s
		5: Alternating current
			Mains electricity
			Measuring AC
			Electromagnetic induction using an electromagnet
			Transformers
		Thinking Bigger: Metal Detectives
		Exam-style questions
Topic 8: Nuclear and particle physics
	Chapter 8.1: Probing matter
		1: A nuclear atom
			Atomic theories through history
			Alpha particle scattering
			Nuclear structure
			A quantum mechanical atom
		2: Electrons from atoms
			Electron beams
			An electron probe
		Thinking Bigger: Bremsstrahlung
		Exam-style questions
	Chapter 8.2: Particle accelerators and detectors
		1: Particle accelerators
			Particle accelerators
			Linear accelerators
			Accelerating particles in circles
			The cyclotron
			Ninovium - scientists sometimes cheat too
		2: Particle detectors
			Principles of detection
			Analysing detections
		3: The Large Hadron Collider
			CERN’s big synchrotron
			ATLAS
			What must a detector be capable of doing?
		Thinking Bigger: Medical Particle Accelerators
		Exam-style questions
	Chapter 8.3: The particle zoo
		1: Particle interactions
			Creation
			Annihilation
			Electronvolt units
		2: The particle zoo
			The Standard Model
		3: Particles and forces
			Baryons
			Mesons
			Hadrons
			The four forces of the apocalypse
		4: Particle reactions
			Reactions conserve properties
			Charge conservation
			Conservation of baryon and lepton numbers
			Strangeness
			Relativistic lifetimes
		Thinking Bigger: Anti-Matter Matters
		Exam-style questions
Topic 9: Thermodynamics
	Chapter 9.1: Heat and temperature
		1: Heat and temperature
			Temperature
			Absolute temperature
		2: Internal energy
			The Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution
			Root-mean-square calculations
			Molecular kinetic energy
		3: Heat transfer
			Specific heat capacity
			Specific latent heat
			Black body radiation
		4: Ideal gas behaviour
			Boyle’s law
			Charles’s law
			The pressure law
			Ideal gases
		5: Kinetic theory equations
			pV = 1/ 3Nm
		Thinking Bigger: Reach for the Sky!
		Exam-style questions
Topic 10: Nuclear radiation
	Chapter 10.1: Radioactivity
		1: Nuclear radiation
			Background radiation
			Types of nuclear radiation
			dangers from nuclear radiations
		2: Rate of radioactive decay
			Probability and decay
			Half-life
			Half-life graphs
		3: Fission and fusion
			Energy-mass equivalence
			Nuclear binding energy
			Binding energy per nucleon
			Nuclear fusion
			Nuclear fission
		4: Nuclear power stations
			Nuclear reactors
			Nuclear power - the way forward?
			Nuclear disasters
			Nuclear power legacies
		Thinking Bigger: New Nuclear Power in the UK
		Exam-style questions
Topic 11: Gravitational fields
	Chapter 11.1: Gravitational fields
		1: Gravitational forces
			The attraction of gravity
			Weighing the Earth
		2: Gravitational fields
			Radial fields
			Gravitational field strength
			Gravitational potential
			Electric and gravitational fields
		Thinking Bigger: Volcano Monitoring
		Exam-style questions
Topic 12: Space
	Chapter 12.1: Space
		1: Starshine
			Stellar properties
			The Stefan-Boltzmann law
			Wien\'s law
		2: Stellar classification
			Star classes
			The Hertzsprung–Russell diagram
			Stellar evolution
			Low-mass stars
			Massive stars
		3: Distances to the stars
			Big distance units
			Trigonometric parallax
			Standard candles
		4: The age of the Universe
			The Doppler effect
			Hubble’s law
			How old is the Universe?
		5: The fate of the Universe
			The Hubble constant
			Future Universe?
			Dark Matter
			Dark Energy
		Thinking Bigger: Dark Universe
		Exam-style questions
Topic 13: Oscillations
	Chapter 13.1: Oscillations
		1: Simple harmonic motion (SHM)
			Bouncing and swinging
		2: SHM mathematics
			Angular velocity and SHM
			SHM graphs
		3: SHM energy
			Conservation of energy
		4: Resonance and damping
			Free and forced oscillations
			Resonance
			Damped oscillations
			Resonance problems and damping solutions
		Thinking Bigger: The Wobbly Bridge
		Exam-style questions
Maths skills
	Arithmetic and numerical computation
	Graphs
	Geometry and trigonometry
	Applying your skills
Preparing for your exams
Glossary
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