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| AS2:Waves, Photons and Medical Physics |
describe CT and MRI scans in terms of physical principles, basic equipment, technique and applications |
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| Unit A2 1: Momentum, Thermal Physics, Circular Motion, Oscillations and Atomic and Nuclear Physics |
demonstrate an understanding of the concept of absolute
zero of temperature appreciate the equivalence of mass and energyrecall the equation E = mc2 and understand that it applies to all energy changes |
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| Unit A2 2: Fields and their Applications | state Newton's law of universal gravitation understand that a moving charge in a uniform electric field experiences a force Particle accelerators: describe the basic principles of operation of a linear accelerator, cyclotron and synchrotron; understand the concept of antimatter and that it can be produced and observed using high energy particle accelerators; describe the process of annihilation in terms of photon emission and conservation of energy and momentum |
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| Fundamental particles | explain the concept of a fundamental particle; identify the four fundamental forces and their associated exchange particles; classify particles as gauge bosons, leptons and hadrons (mesons and baryons); describe the structure of hadrons in terms of quarks |
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