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AQA A-level Physics Student Guide: Practical Physics
AQA A-level Physics Student Guide: Practical Physics
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Exam Board: AQA
Level: A-level
Subject: Physics
First Teaching: September 2015
First Exam: June 2016

Ensure your students get to grips with the core practicals and develop the skills needed to succeed with an in-depth assessment-driven approach that builds and reinforces understanding; clear summaries of practical work with sample questions and answers help to improve exam technique in order to achieve higher grades.
Written by experienced teachers Graham George and Kevin Lawrence, this Student Guide for practical Physics
- Help students easily identify what they need to know with a concise summary of required practical work examined in the A-level specifications.
- Consolidate understanding of practical work, methodology, mathematical and other skills out of the laboratory with exam tips and knowledge check questions, with answers in the back of the book.
- Provide plenty of opportunities for students to improve exam technique with sample answers, examiners tips and exam-style questions.
- Offer support beyond the Student books with coverage of methodologies and generic practical skills not focused on in the textbooks.

Language
English
ISBN
9781471885556
Cover
Title Page
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Contents
Getting the most from this book
About this guide
Content Guidance
Maths and units
Practical skills
Required practicals
1 Investigating the frequency of a vibrating string or wire
2 Investigating interference effects from a diffraction grating and Young’s double slits
3 Determination of g by a free-fall method
4 Determining the Young modulus of a material
5 Determination of resistivity of a wire
6 Investigating the emf and internal resistance of electric cells and batteries
7 Investigating simple harmonic motion using a mass–spring system and simple pendulum
8 Investigating Boyle’s law and Charles’s law for a gas
9 Investigating the charge and discharge of capacitors
10 Investigating the force on a current-carrying wire in a magnetic field
11 Investigating magnetic flux linkage of a coil in a magnetic field
12 Investigating the inverse square law for gamma radiation
Questions & Answers
Practice questions
Knowledge check answers
Index

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