
Physics
Collins CSEC® Physics provides a new approach to the study of the CSEC® Physics
syllabus that focuses on the skills needed to pass and to get a top grade. It provides
full coverage of the CXC® syllabus.
• Written in clear, accessible language, with worked examples and annotated
diagrams and illustrations to help explain difficult concepts
• Practice and exam-style questions focus on the key skills needed for the exam:
Recalling facts questions allow students to demonstrate what they have learned
Applying facts questions allow students to link what they have learned to
real-life examples and contexts
Analysing data questions – invaluable for the SBA lab work in physics and
essential for a top grade – allow students to demonstrate that they can think
critically about data, analyse the information it gives, and reach sensible and
logical conclusions based on that data
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Getting the best from the book
- Examination tips
- School-Based Assessment (SBA)
- Starter unit
- 1 Scientific measurement and manipulation of data
- Section A – Mechanics
- 2 Statics
- 3 Kinematics
- 4 Dynamics
- 5 Work, energy and power
- 6 Pressure and Archimedes’ principle
- Section B – Thermal physics and kinetictheory
- 7 Nature of heat
- 8 Phases of matter and the kinetic theory
- 9 Thermal expansion
- 10 Temperature and thermometers
- 11 The gas laws
- 12 Heat and temperature change
- 13 Heat and phase change
- 14 Thermal energy transfer
- Section C – Waves and optics
- 15 Light rays and rectilinear propagation
- 16 Reflection and refraction
- 17 Critical angle and total internal reflection
- 18 Lenses
- 19 Wave motion
- 20 Light waves
- 21 Sound waves
- 22 Electromagnetic waves
- Section D – Electricity and magnetism
- 23 Static electricity
- 24 Current electricity
- 25 Electrical quantities
- 26 Circuits and components
- 27 Electricity in the home
- 28 Electronics
- 29 Magnetism
- 30 Electromagnetism
- 31 Electromagnetic induction
- Section E – The physics of the atom
- 32 The atom
- 33 Radioactivity
- 34 Nuclear fission and nuclear fusion
- Index