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Edexcel A level Physics Student Book 2
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Contents | 4 | ||
| How to use this book | 6 | ||
| Topic 6: Further mechanics | 8 | ||
| Chapter 6.1: Further momentum | 8 | ||
| 1: Energy in collisions | 10 | ||
| Elastic collisions | 10 | ||
| Inelastic collisions | 10 | ||
| Particle momentum | 11 | ||
| 2: More collisions | 12 | ||
| Impulse | 12 | ||
| Collision vectors | 13 | ||
| Thinking Bigger: End of the World? | 16 | ||
| Exam-style questions | 18 | ||
| Chapter 6.2: Circular motion | 20 | ||
| 1: Circular motion basics | 22 | ||
| Going round in circles | 22 | ||
| Angular velocity | 23 | ||
| Centripetal acceleration | 23 | ||
| 2: Centripetal force | 25 | ||
| Why circular motion? | 25 | ||
| Centripetal force | 25 | ||
| Thinking Bigger: Artificial Gravity | 28 | ||
| Exam-style questions | 30 | ||
| Topic 7: Electric and magnetic fields | 32 | ||
| Chapter 7.1: Electric fields | 32 | ||
| 1: Electric fields | 34 | ||
| Pushing charges | 34 | ||
| Electric potential | 34 | ||
| Uniform fields | 35 | ||
| Equipotentials | 36 | ||
| 2: Millikan’s oil drop experiment | 37 | ||
| 3: Radial electric fields | 39 | ||
| Radial fields | 39 | ||
| Radial electric field strength | 39 | ||
| Potential in a radial electric field | 39 | ||
| Combining electric fields | 40 | ||
| 4: Coulomb’s law | 41 | ||
| Charged particle interactions | 41 | ||
| Everyday levitation | 42 | ||
| Thinking Bigger: Power Line Problems | 44 | ||
| Exam-style questions | 46 | ||
| Chapter 7.2: Capacitors | 48 | ||
| 1: Capacitor basics | 50 | ||
| Storing charge | 50 | ||
| energy stored on a charged capacitor | 51 | ||
| 2: Charging and discharging capacitors | 52 | ||
| Capacitor discharge curves | 52 | ||
| The time constant | 53 | ||
| Capacitor charging curves | 54 | ||
| 3: Capacitor mathematics | 55 | ||
| Discharging capacitor maths | 55 | ||
| Capacitor calculus | 57 | ||
| The ‘37% life’ | 57 | ||
| Thinking Bigger: Ultracapacitors | 58 | ||
| Exam-style questions | 60 | ||
| Chapter 7.3: Electromagnetic effects | 62 | ||
| 1: Magnetic fields | 64 | ||
| Magnetic flux | 64 | ||
| Flux linkage | 65 | ||
| 2: Electric motors | 66 | ||
| Fleming’s left hand rule | 66 | ||
| 3: Magnetic forces | 68 | ||
| Fred = BIL | 68 | ||
| F = Bev | 68 | ||
| The mass spectrometer | 69 | ||
| 4: Generating electricity | 71 | ||
| Electromagnetic induction | 71 | ||
| Calculating induced e.m.f.s | 72 | ||
| 5: Alternating current | 73 | ||
| Mains electricity | 73 | ||
| Measuring AC | 73 | ||
| Electromagnetic induction using an electromagnet | 74 | ||
| Transformers | 75 | ||
| Thinking Bigger: Metal Detectives | 76 | ||
| Exam-style questions | 78 | ||
| Topic 8: Nuclear and particle physics | 80 | ||
| Chapter 8.1: Probing matter | 80 | ||
| 1: A nuclear atom | 82 | ||
| Atomic theories through history | 82 | ||
| Alpha particle scattering | 82 | ||
| Nuclear structure | 84 | ||
| A quantum mechanical atom | 85 | ||
| 2: Electrons from atoms | 86 | ||
| Electron beams | 86 | ||
| An electron probe | 86 | ||
| Thinking Bigger: Bremsstrahlung | 88 | ||
| Exam-style questions | 90 | ||
| Chapter 8.2: Particle accelerators and detectors | 92 | ||
| 1: Particle accelerators | 94 | ||
| Particle accelerators | 94 | ||
| Linear accelerators | 94 | ||
| Accelerating particles in circles | 96 | ||
| The cyclotron | 96 | ||
| Ninovium - scientists sometimes cheat too | 97 | ||
| 2: Particle detectors | 98 | ||
| Principles of detection | 98 | ||
| Analysing detections | 98 | ||
| 3: The Large Hadron Collider | 101 | ||
| CERN’s big synchrotron | 101 | ||
| ATLAS | 102 | ||
| What must a detector be capable of doing? | 103 | ||
| Thinking Bigger: Medical Particle Accelerators | 104 | ||
| Exam-style questions | 106 | ||
| Chapter 8.3: The particle zoo | 108 | ||
| 1: Particle interactions | 110 | ||
| Creation | 110 | ||
| Annihilation | 110 | ||
| Electronvolt units | 111 | ||
| 2: The particle zoo | 112 | ||
| The Standard Model | 112 | ||
| 3: Particles and forces | 114 | ||
| Baryons | 114 | ||
| Mesons | 114 | ||
| Hadrons | 114 | ||
| The four forces of the apocalypse | 114 | ||
| 4: Particle reactions | 116 | ||
| Reactions conserve properties | 116 | ||
| Charge conservation | 116 | ||
| Conservation of baryon and lepton numbers | 117 | ||
| Strangeness | 118 | ||
| Relativistic lifetimes | 118 | ||
| Thinking Bigger: Anti-Matter Matters | 120 | ||
| Exam-style questions | 122 | ||
| Topic 9: Thermodynamics | 124 | ||
| Chapter 9.1: Heat and temperature | 124 | ||
| 1: Heat and temperature | 126 | ||
| Temperature | 126 | ||
| Absolute temperature | 126 | ||
| 2: Internal energy | 128 | ||
| The Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution | 128 | ||
| Root-mean-square calculations | 128 | ||
| Molecular kinetic energy | 129 | ||
| 3: Heat transfer | 130 | ||
| Specific heat capacity | 130 | ||
| Specific latent heat | 131 | ||
| Black body radiation | 132 | ||
| 4: Ideal gas behaviour | 133 | ||
| Boyle’s law | 133 | ||
| Charles’s law | 134 | ||
| The pressure law | 134 | ||
| Ideal gases | 134 | ||
| 5: Kinetic theory equations | 136 | ||
| pV = 1/ 3Nm |
136 | ||
| Thinking Bigger: Reach for the Sky! | 138 | ||
| Exam-style questions | 140 | ||
| Topic 10: Nuclear radiation | 142 | ||
| Chapter 10.1: Radioactivity | 142 | ||
| 1: Nuclear radiation | 144 | ||
| Background radiation | 144 | ||
| Types of nuclear radiation | 145 | ||
| dangers from nuclear radiations | 147 | ||
| 2: Rate of radioactive decay | 148 | ||
| Probability and decay | 148 | ||
| Half-life | 148 | ||
| Half-life graphs | 149 | ||
| 3: Fission and fusion | 151 | ||
| Energy-mass equivalence | 151 | ||
| Nuclear binding energy | 152 | ||
| Binding energy per nucleon | 152 | ||
| Nuclear fusion | 152 | ||
| Nuclear fission | 153 | ||
| 4: Nuclear power stations | 155 | ||
| Nuclear reactors | 155 | ||
| Nuclear power - the way forward? | 156 | ||
| Nuclear disasters | 156 | ||
| Nuclear power legacies | 157 | ||
| Thinking Bigger: New Nuclear Power in the UK | 158 | ||
| Exam-style questions | 160 | ||
| Topic 11: Gravitational fields | 162 | ||
| Chapter 11.1: Gravitational fields | 162 | ||
| 1: Gravitational forces | 164 | ||
| The attraction of gravity | 164 | ||
| Weighing the Earth | 165 | ||
| 2: Gravitational fields | 166 | ||
| Radial fields | 166 | ||
| Gravitational field strength | 166 | ||
| Gravitational potential | 166 | ||
| Electric and gravitational fields | 167 | ||
| Thinking Bigger: Volcano Monitoring | 168 | ||
| Exam-style questions | 170 | ||
| Topic 12: Space | 172 | ||
| Chapter 12.1: Space | 172 | ||
| 1: Starshine | 174 | ||
| Stellar properties | 174 | ||
| The Stefan-Boltzmann law | 174 | ||
| Wien's law | 175 | ||
| 2: Stellar classification | 176 | ||
| Star classes | 176 | ||
| The Hertzsprung–Russell diagram | 178 | ||
| Stellar evolution | 178 | ||
| Low-mass stars | 179 | ||
| Massive stars | 179 | ||
| 3: Distances to the stars | 181 | ||
| Big distance units | 181 | ||
| Trigonometric parallax | 181 | ||
| Standard candles | 184 | ||
| 4: The age of the Universe | 186 | ||
| The Doppler effect | 186 | ||
| Hubble’s law | 188 | ||
| How old is the Universe? | 189 | ||
| 5: The fate of the Universe | 190 | ||
| The Hubble constant | 190 | ||
| Future Universe? | 190 | ||
| Dark Matter | 191 | ||
| Dark Energy | 193 | ||
| Thinking Bigger: Dark Universe | 194 | ||
| Exam-style questions | 196 | ||
| Topic 13: Oscillations | 198 | ||
| Chapter 13.1: Oscillations | 198 | ||
| 1: Simple harmonic motion (SHM) | 200 | ||
| Bouncing and swinging | 200 | ||
| 2: SHM mathematics | 203 | ||
| Angular velocity and SHM | 203 | ||
| SHM graphs | 203 | ||
| 3: SHM energy | 205 | ||
| Conservation of energy | 205 | ||
| 4: Resonance and damping | 207 | ||
| Free and forced oscillations | 207 | ||
| Resonance | 207 | ||
| Damped oscillations | 208 | ||
| Resonance problems and damping solutions | 210 | ||
| Thinking Bigger: The Wobbly Bridge | 212 | ||
| Exam-style questions | 214 | ||
| Maths skills | 216 | ||
| Arithmetic and numerical computation | 216 | ||
| Graphs | 217 | ||
| Geometry and trigonometry | 219 | ||
| Applying your skills | 220 | ||
| Preparing for your exams | 222 | ||
| Glossary | 230 | ||
| Index | 234 |