Overview
From cancer treatment to tackling climate change, gaming to robotics and artificial intelligence, physics and physicists are on the front line, helping to shape the future. At a time when new careers are emerging, physics offers a vast and expanding range of career paths.
A Level Physics develops the ability to logically solve complex problems, conduct lab research, use mathematical models, and communicate ideas in scientific reports. These skills and ways of thinking are in demand in many industries, often well paid, such as finance and law.
Physics combines practical skills with theoretical ideas to develop descriptions of the physical universe. Scholars will learn about everything from kinematics to cosmology, and explore recent developments in fascinating topics such as particle physics. 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.
Entry requirements
7-7 at GCSE Combined Science or 7 in GCSE Physics.
Course content
Year 12
Foundations of A-Level Physics
Motion
Practicals in Physics
Electricity
Forces
Waves
Work, energy and power
Quantum
Materials
Newton’s laws and momentum
Medical imaging
Nuclear and particle physics
Year 13
Thermal physics
Circular motion and oscillations
Capacitors and fields
Gravitational fields
Astrophysics and cosmology
Electromagnetism
Assessment
The course is assessed through three written exams.
Exam board
OCR