WHAT IS PHYSICS AT DLD?
Since 2015, we have followed the OCR Physics A linear specification, which is divided into 6 modules, each covering a key concept in Physics.
The modules are:
| Module | |
| Both years | 1: Development of practical skills in physics |
| Year 1 | 2: Foundations in physics 3: Forces and motion 4: Electrons, waves and photons |
| Year 2 | 5: Newtonian world and astrophysics 6: Particles and medical physics |
Students take progression exams at the end of Year 1, and subject to a suitable pass grade, can move into Year 2.
Over the course of two years you will explore:
- The different properties of materials; why certain materials are used to make computers, buildings and replacement body parts
- The existence and behaviour of waves; how musical instruments produce their notes
- The wave-particle paradox
- How electricity is created; how early televisions were invented
- How atoms were discovered; what you get when you smash an atom into pieces
- How we have developed theories of the lives of stars and the size of the universe without ever leaving the Solar System.
