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

✍ Scribed by Miles Hudson

• Publisher: Pearson
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 239
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Exam Board: Edexcel

Level: A level

Subject: Science / Physics

First teaching: September 2015

First exams: June 2017

• An ActiveBook is included with every Student Book, giving your students easy online access to the content in the Student Book. They can make it their own with notes, highlights and links to their wider reading. Perfect for supporting work and revision activities.
• Student Book 1 supports a standalone AS course and provides the first year of a two-year A level course; Student Books 1 and 2 together support the full A level course.
• A cumulative approach to learning constantly builds on what has previously been taught.
• The chapter openers highlight prior learning requirements and link to future learning.
• The required maths skills are highlighted at the start of each chapter providing opportunities for students to check understanding and remedy gaps.
• Bigger spreads require students to read real-life material that’s relevant to the course and use knowledge in new contexts.
• Accompanying questions require students to analyse how scientists write, think critically and consider issues.
• Preparing for your exams sections highlight the key differences between preparing for an AS and full A level exam.
• Practice question spreads provide opportunities for students to regularly check their understanding using questions written in the style of the new exams from day one.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
How to use this book
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
Index