Page 7 - Physics Coursebook 2015 (A level)

Contents
Chapter 21: Thermal physics 327
Changes of state 328 Energy changes 329 Internal energy 331 The meaning of temperature 332 Thermometers 334 Calculating energy changes 336
Chapter 22: Ideal gases 345
Chapter 27: Charged particles 422
Observing the force 423 Orbiting charges 423 Electric and magnetic fields 427 The Hall effect 428 Discovering the electron 429
Chapter 28: Electromagnetic induction 435
Particles of a gas
Explaining pressure
Measuring gases
Boyle’s law
Changing temperature
Ideal gas equation 351 Modelling gases – the kinetic model 352 Temperature and molecular kinetic energy
Chapter 23: Coulomb’s law 359
Chapter 29: Alternating currents 451
Observing induction 436 346 Explaining electromagnetic induction 437 348 Faraday’s law of electromagnetic induction 441 348 Lenz’s law 443 349 Using induction: eddy currents, generators
350 and transformers 445
354 Sinusoidal current 452
Alternating voltages 453
Electric fields
Coulomb’s law
Electric field strength for a radial field
Electric potential 363 Comparing gravitational and electric fields 366
Chapter 24: Capacitance 372
Capacitors in use
Energy stored in a capacitor Capacitors in parallel
Capacitors in series
Comparing capacitors and resistors Capacitor networks
Chapter 30: Quantum physics 466
Modelling with particles and waves 467
Power and a.c. 455 360 Why use a.c. for electricity supply? 457 360 Transformers 458 362 Rectification 460
Particulate nature of light 468 373 The photoelectric effect 471 375 Line spectra 475 377 Explaining the origin of line spectra 476 378 Photon energies 477 379 Electron energies in solids 478 380 The nature of light – waves or particles? 480
Chapter 25: Electronics 386 Components of an electronic sensing system 387
Electron waves 480 Chapter 31: Nuclear physics 489
The operational amplifier (op-amp) The inverting amplifier
The non-inverting amplifier Output devices
393 Balanced equations 490 397 Mass and energy 491 398 Energy released in radioactive decay 494 398 Binding energy and stability 494
Chapter 26: Magnetic fields and electromagnetism 406
Producing and representing magnetic fields 407 Magnetic force 409 Magnetic flux density 411 Measuring magnetic flux density 411 Currents crossing fields 413 Forces between currents 415 Relating SI units 416 Comparing forces in magnetic, electric
Randomness and decay 496 The mathematics of radioactive decay 497 Decay graphs and equations 499 Decay constant and half-life 501
and gravitational fields 417
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