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Overview

This course is designed to provide a balanced and coherent study of Physics, in which students are given the opportunity to explore certain areas of the subject in depth. Throughout the course, students develop their abilities through experimental and investigative work and increase their skills in analysing evidence to draw conclusions.

The course is aimed at those who have already achieved GCSE Physics or equivalent and enables students to progress into further or higher education, to follow courses in physics, engineering, one of the other sciences or related subjects, or to enter employment where a knowledge of physics would be useful. The course also provides an interesting and stimulating experience for students who do not wish to pursue the subject further.

Specification aims

The aims of these specifications are to encourage students to:

• Become confident citizens in a technological world, be able to take or develop an informed interest in matters of scientific import.
• Recognise the usefulness, and limitation, of scientific method and to appreciate its applicability in other disciplines and in everyday life.
• Be suitably prepared for employment and/or further studies beyond AS GCE or Advanced GCE.
• Develop essential knowledge and understanding in physics and, where appropriate, the applications of physics, and the skills needed for the use of this in new and changing situations.
• Develop an understanding of the link between theory and experiment.
• Appreciate how physics has developed and is used in present day society.
• Show the importance of physics as a human endeavour which interacts with social, philosophical, economic. industrial and environmental matters.
• Sustain and develop their enjoyment of, and interest in, physics.
• Recognise the quantitative nature of physics and understand how mathematical expressions relate to physical principles.
• Bring together knowledge of ways in which different areas of physics relate to each other.
• Study how scientific models develop.