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Nuffield Advanced Physics: Foundation Unit
Published by the Nuffield Foundation, the Advanced Physics Foundation Unit was designed to help students progress from GCSE science to the Nuffield course as it was in the 1990s. The physics ideas, questions and checklists in chapters four and five were included to deal with the physics of four of the first-year units:
Unit A: Materials and mechanics
Unit B: Currents, circuits, and charge
Unit D: Oscillations and waves
Unit E: Field and potential
Contents
Chapter 1: Using this booklet
Chapter 2: About your A-level Physics course
Chapter 3: The basic tools
*Checklist: maths skills
Chapter 4: The basic ideas
*Materials and mechanics
*Current and voltage in circuits
Chapter 5: Questions
*Mechanics, forces, movement
*Charge, current, potential difference,. energy transfer
*Oscillations and waves
*Movement and energy in gravitational fields
Chapter 6: Basic mathematical skills
*Numbers, units, calculations
*Basic algebra
*Graphs
*Trigonometry and geometry
Answers to questions
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