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View topicsHigher Physics covers Our Dynamic Universe, Particles and Waves, and Electricity, assessed by an SQA exam and a 20-mark assignment based on independent research and experimental work.
The course introduces genuinely demanding ideas: special relativity, the Doppler effect and the expanding universe, the standard model of particles, nuclear reactions, photoelectric effect, interference and diffraction, capacitors, and semiconductors, all supported by a substantial set of relationships.
Uncertainty analysis appears throughout the assignment and the exam. Candidates who are comfortable selecting and rearranging relationships, and who present working line by line with units, convert their understanding into marks far more reliably.
Important Topics
- Our Dynamic UniverseKinematics, forces, momentum, energy, gravitation and projectile motion.
- Special Relativity & CosmologyTime dilation, length contraction, the Doppler effect, redshift and the Big Bang.
- Particles & the Standard ModelFundamental particles, forces, particle accelerators and nuclear reactions.
- Waves & OpticsInterference, diffraction gratings, refraction, critical angle and irradiance.
- Quantum PhysicsThe photoelectric effect, photons and the wave-particle model of light.
- ElectricityEMF, internal resistance, capacitors, semiconductors and p-n junctions.
- Uncertainties & AssignmentRandom and systematic uncertainty, data analysis and the written assignment.
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