Higher Physics: Second Edition

✍ Scribed by Paul Chambers, Mark Ramsay, Iain Moore

• Publisher: Hodder Gibson
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 633
• Edition: Second
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Exam Board: SQA
Level: Higher
Subject: Physics
First Teaching: August 2018
First Exam: June 2019

Ensure that students are prepared for every aspect of their Higher Physics assessment with the only textbook that offers comprehensive coverage of the updated SQA syllabus requirements.

- Provides clear and comprehensive coverage of the specification with each section of the book matching a unit of the new syllabus and each chapter corresponding to a content area

- Supports the 'researching physics' section in an appendix, covering key skills required by physics students and deals with data analysis, what can reasonably be inferred and what cannot, how we arrive at conclusions and what those conclusions mean

- Helps students to prepare for exams: each chapter contains examples of numerical, open ended and discursive type questions and combines strong coverage of essential Physics for Higher with new material and innovative teaching approaches

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Section 1 Our Dynamic Universe
1 Motion
2 Forces, energy and power
3 Collisions, momentum and energy
4 Projectiles and satellites
5 Special relativity
6 The expanding Universe
7 The Big Bang Theory
Section 2 Particles and Waves
8 Electric fields
9 The Standard Model
10 Nuclear reactions
11 Wave properties
12 Refraction of light
13 Spectra
Section 3 Electricity
14 Electrons and energy
15 Electrons at work
Appendix 1: Assessment – Question paper and Assignment skills
Appendix 2: Useful formulae
Answers

✦ Subjects

Higher Physics