Physics notes and video lessons index
There are hundreds of pages of physics notes and video lessons on this site all listed below. You can either scroll down to see all topics, you can jump to the right group of pages by using the list below or use the search box on the right.
- Astronomy including methods of measuring distance, star life cycle, Doppler effect, Hubble's Law, the Big Bang
- Atomic Structure
- Capacitance and capacitors
- Digital Imaging and Signals
- Electricity a large collection of pages on all aspects of current electricity
- Energy Resources Renewable and non renewable resources
- Fluid Flow
- Force and motion including momentum, Newton's Laws, circular motion and gravity and satellites
- Graphs, maths and connections linear and curved graphs, exponential decay and the Inverse Square Law
- Heat and Temperature Specific heat capacity and specific latent heat
- Kinetic theory of gases development of the theory and the gas laws
- Magnetism and Electromagnetism including flux density, Faraday's Law, Lenz's Law and the Left Hand Rule
- Nuclear Fission and Fusion
- Radioactivity including stability, half life and transformations
- Resonance and Damping
- Simple Harmonic Motion
- Waves and Light including the E/M spectrum, refraction, diffraction, fibre optics, Young's Slits, Ray diagrams and polarisation
- Vectors
- Physics exam revision and links including links to other good sites, exam revision guidance and exam board links
Astronomy
- Units of distance notes and video
- Measuring distance by parallax/triangulation notes and video
- Life cycle of stars notes and video lesson
- Geostationary and polar satellites notes and video
- Big Bang theory and evidence
- Development of the Universe after the Big Bang
- Real and apparent magnitude
- Hubble's Law and measuring distance notes and video
- The age of the universe notes and video
- Using Hertzsprung Russell diagrams notes and video
- Cepheid variable stars
- Type 1A supernova
Atomic structure
- Protons, neutrons, electrons and isotopes notes and video
- Rutherford's gold leaf Experiment notes and video lesson
- What are alpha particles
- Ions and ionisation notes and video
- Quarks and leptons notes and video
- Fermions - the building blocks of the universe Notes and video
- Neutrons, stability and decay - notes and video
- Binding energy and stability
- Nuclear density explained and calculated, notes and video
- Feynman diagrams notes and video
- Gauge bosons - the glue that holds everything together
- Pair production and annihilation notes and video
- Strange particles, what are they and why are they strange?
- Muon Decay and Relativity
- Baryon number and conservation The video with supporting notes
- What do quarks make Go to top of page
Capacitance and capacitors
- What is a capacitor and what does it do notes and video
- Capacitors in series and parallel notes and video
- Capacitor area, spacing and dielectric
- Capacitor time constant notes and video
Digital imaging and signals
- The difference between analogue and digital signals
- Pixels, bytes and bits in a digital image
- Smoothing and sharpening a digital image
Electricity
- electric current and charge
- What is an electric current? -notes and video
- Kirchhoff's First Law - notes and video
- Drift velocity of electrons - notes and video
- potential difference
- Understanding and measuring potential difference video and notes
- Potential dividers
- EMF and internal resistance notes and video
- Kirchhoff's second Law video and notes
- Potential dividers explained with notes and video
- Potentiometers explained with video and notes Go to top of page
- electrical resistance
- Electrical resistance and Ohm's Law notes and video
- Resistors in series
- Resistors in parallel
- Variable resistors
- Resistors and potential divider
- Resistance and temperature graphs
- Resistance of a filament bulb
- The characteristics of a diode
- Electrical resistivity
- Internal resistance and EMF
-Transmitting and using electricity
- AC and DC supply
- Electrical cables and plugs notes and video
- Fuses notes and video
- How electrical earthing works notes and video
- Electrical energy and power
- Transformers- explaining why they are needed for power transmission with video
Energy resources to produce electricity
- Explaining renewable and non renewable energy
- Advantages and disadvantages of renewable resources
- Advantages and disadvantages of common non renewable resources
Fluid flow Each page includes a video lesson
Force and motion
-Moments and The Law of Moments
- What is a moment
- The Law of Moments including video lesson
- Using the Law of Moments
- Calculations on The Law of Moments
-Newton's Laws of Motion
- Newton's First Law
- Newton's second Law
- Newton's Third Law
- Law of Momentum
- Using Impulse and Momentum video lesson
-Gravity and satellites
- Newtons Law of Gravity Notes and video lesson
- Gravity and gravitational potential
- Satellites polar and geostationary Go to top of page
-Circular motion
- Angular velocity notes and video
- Force and acceleration in circular motion
- Polar and geostationary satellites notes and video
Graphs, maths and connections for physics with notes and video lessons
- Random and systematic error notes and video explanation of the difference
- Linear graphs notes and video
- Curved graphs notes and video
- Sine and cosine graphs
- Exponential graphs notes and video
- The inverse square law notes and video
- Radians explained video lesson
- Steradian measuring solid angles notes and video
Heat and temperature
Kinetic theory of gases and the gas Laws
- Boyle's Law
- Charles's Law
- Brownian motion notes and video
- Kinetic theory of gases notes and video
- Avogadro's Law
- Boltzmann's Constant Go to top of page
Magnetism and electromagnetism
- Magnets and magnetic fields with video
- Magnetic flux and magnetic flux density with videos
- Measuring magnetic flux density with video
- Faradays Law and Lenz's Law with video
- Fleming's Left Hand Rule with video
- Transformers with video
- Hysteresis and Eddy currents with video
Nuclear fission and fusion
Radioactivity
- What is radioactivity
- Properties of alpha, beta and gamma radiation
- Beta minus and beta plus notes and video
- Explaining radioactivity half life
- Radioactivity and the decay constant
- Carbon dating
- Radioactive decay equations
- Measuring radioactivity - the Geiger counter
- Muon Decay and Relativity
- Neutrons, stability and decay - notes and video
- Feynman diagrams notes and video
Resonance and damping
Simple Harmonic Motion
- Explaining Simple Harmonic Motion (SHM)
- Simple Harmonic Motion (SHM) of a spring
- Simple Harmonic Motion (SHM) of a pendulum
- SHM graphs for displacement, velocity and acceleration
- SHM and energy changes Go to top of page
Waves and light
-general properties of progressive waves
- Measuring waves with video explanation including transverse and longitudinal waves
- Diffraction of waves
- Interference of waves notes and video lesson
- Polarised light notes and video lesson
- Using polarised waves
- The Doppler Effect -notes and video lesson
- The Electromagnetic Spectrum notes and video
- The photoelectric effect video explanation
- Measuring Planck's Constant video explanation and demonstration
- light
- The Laws of Reflection - notes and video lesson
- Refraction of light
- Total internal reflection and optical fibres - notes and video lesson
- Drawing ray diagrams for lenses - notes and video lessons
- Measuring light, Explaining candela, lumen and lux - notes and video
- stationary OR standing waves
- What are standing waves - notes and video lesson
- Standing waves in wires
- Standing waves in tubes notes and video lesson
Vectors - adding vectors
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