Physics

Why study this subject?

Physics is a “facilitating subject”, meaning that it’s highly regarded whatever degree or career path you choose. Physics opens doors because of the skills and ways of thinking it teaches you. You’ll pick up mathematical and analytical techniques that are valued in a huge range of careers. You’ll become a critical and creative thinker, and a problem solver.

There are many possible career paths that it will create for you, for example: Engineering, Medicine, Forensic Science, Astronomy, Climate Science, Lasers and Photonics, Cosmology, Robotics and AI, VX and Gaming, Power generation, Finance and many more.

If you are interested in the limits of space, the beginning of time and everything in between this is the subject for you. Physics is more than a subject – it trains your brain to think beyond boundaries.

What skills will you develop?

Physics opens doors because of the skills and ways of thinking it teaches you. You’ll pick up mathematical and analytical techniques that are valued in a huge range of careers. You’ll become a critical and creative thinker, and a problem solver.

What are the key elements to the course?

A level Physics gives you the opportunity to explore the phenomena of the universe and to look at theories that explain what is observed. This subject combines practical skills with theoretical ideas to develop descriptions of the physical universe. Delve deeper into familiar topics like measurement, forces, waves, radioactivity, electricity and magnetism.

• Particles and Quantum Phenomena, • Waves, • Mechanics: Forces, Newton’s Laws of Motion, Momentum, Work, Energy • Materials, • Electricity and capacitors, • Circular Motion, Simple Harmonic Motion, • Thermal Physics and Gases, • Gravitational Fields, Electric Fields, Magnetic Fields and Electromagnetic Induction, • Radioactivity and Nuclear Energy. • Astro-Physics • Medical Physics