Physics
Cambridge O Levels · Code: 5054
Speed, Distance & Time
Analysing motion using calculations, distance-time, and speed-time graphs.
Forces & Motion
Explores how forces influence an object's state of rest or motion, governed by Newton's Laws.
Energy & Work Done
Exploring energy transfers, transformations, and the work done by forces.
Pressure
How force is concentrated or spread out over an area in solids, liquids, and gases.
Thermal Physics
Explores how thermal energy transfers and affects the temperature and state of matter.
Waves & Sound
Explore how waves transfer energy, focusing on sound, its properties, and behaviour in our world.
Light & Optics
How light reflects, refracts, and forms images in mirrors and lenses.
Electricity
Fundamentals of electric circuits, including current, voltage, resistance, and power.
Magnetism & Electromagnetism
Explores magnets, the magnetic effects of currents, motors, generators, and transformers.
Nuclear Physics & Radioactivity
Atomic nuclei, their instability, radioactive decay, and the release of nuclear energy.
Scientific Enquiry & Skills
The systematic process of planning, observing, analyzing, and evaluating scientific investigations.
Physical Quantities and Measurement
The foundation of physics: defining quantities, units, and the tools for precise measurement.
Mass, Weight and Density
Explores the fundamental properties of matter: mass, weight, and density.
Moments and Turning Effects
The turning effect of a force and the conditions for rotational equilibrium.
Momentum
The 'quantity of motion' of a moving object, a product of its mass and velocity.
Static Electricity
Explores the forces and fields created by stationary electric charges and their effects.
Digital Electronics (Logic Gates)
Explore the building blocks of digital circuits and how they process binary information.
Nuclear Fission and Fusion
Releasing vast energy by splitting (fission) or combining (fusion) atomic nuclei.
Space Physics
Exploring our Solar System, the life cycle of stars, and the vast expanding Universe.
Electromagnetic Effects & Transformers
Electromagnetic induction, AC generators, DC motors, transformers and power transmission
Electromagnetic Spectrum
The complete EM spectrum from radio waves to gamma rays, properties and applications
Kinetic Particle Model
States of matter, particle motion, Brownian motion, gas laws and pressure
Magnetism & Electromagnets
Magnetic fields, poles, electromagnets, relays and loudspeakers
Radioactivity & Nuclear Structure
Types of radiation, half-life, radioactive decay equations, nuclear equations
Thermal Energy Transfer
Conduction, convection and radiation — methods of heat transfer with applications