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Advanced Subsidiary (AS) course
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- Physics in Action
- provides a graduated path from GCSE to AS level
- focus on physics in use
Communication (8 weeks)
1. Imaging (2 weeks)
including optics and ideas about information
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2. Sensing (4 weeks)
including simple circuit theory up to the potential divider
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3. Signalling (2 weeks)
including spectra, polarization and digital signals
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Designer Materials (5 weeks)
4. Testing materials (3 weeks)
including mechanical, optical and electrical properties, giving attention to a wide range of materials in use
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5. Looking inside materials (2 weeks)
including explanation of properties of materials in terms of structure at various scales; designing new materials
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- Understanding processes
- progressing towards new ways of thinking
- focus on curiosity-driven physics
Waves and quantum behaviour (6 weeks)
6. Wave behaviour (4 weeks)
including double slit and gratings; also colour and thin films
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7. Quantum behaviour (2 weeks)
including photons and evidence of electron diffraction
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Space and time (6 weeks)
8. Mapping space and time (2 weeks)
including vectors, displacement and velocity
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9. Computing the next move (4 weeks)
including uniform acceleration and uniform gravitational force
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