Work Out Physics ‘O’ Level and GCSE

✍ Scribed by H. J. P. Keighley (auth.)

• Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 239
• Series: Macmillan Master Series
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Some Help with Mathematics....Pages 8-10
SI Units, Density, Pressure and Hooke’s Law....Pages 11-21
Motion, Scalars and Vectors....Pages 22-38
Moments, Equilibrium, Work, Energy, Power and Machines....Pages 39-57
Archimedes’ Principle and Flotation....Pages 58-64
Expansion, Gas Laws, Thermometers, Kinetic Theory and Molecular Size....Pages 65-83
Specific Heat Capacity, Specific Latent Heat, Vapour Pressure, Refrigeration, Boiling and Melting....Pages 84-99
Transfer of Heat, Convection, Conduction, Radiation, Thermos Flask and the Greenhouse Effect....Pages 100-109
Reflection, Refraction, Colour and the Electromagnetic Spectrum....Pages 110-123
Lenses, the Eye, the Camera and the Slide Projector....Pages 124-137
Wave Motion, Sound, Resonance and Stationary Waves....Pages 138-150
Circuits, Series and Parallel, Electrical Units, Household Electricity and Electronics....Pages 151-182
Magnetism, Electromagnetism, Motors, Dynamos, Transformers and Cells....Pages 183-204
Electrostatics, Electron Beams and Radioactivity....Pages 205-224
Back Matter....Pages 225-227

✦ Subjects

Physics, general