Displacement, velocity and acceleration, motion graphs, the SUVAT equations and projectile motion.
Free-body diagrams, Newton's three laws, resolving forces, equilibrium and moments.
Linear momentum, conservation of momentum, impulse, and elastic versus inelastic collisions.
Work done, kinetic and potential energy, conservation of energy, efficiency and power.
Density, Hooke's law, stress, strain and the Young modulus, and the behaviour of materials under load.
Density and pressure in fluids, upthrust and Archimedes' principle, laminar and turbulent flow, viscosity, Stokes' law and terminal velocity.
Transverse and longitudinal waves, wave quantities, the wave equation, and polarisation.
Reflection, refraction and total internal reflection, plus superposition, interference, diffraction and stationary waves.
Photons, the photoelectric effect, the electronvolt, and wave-particle duality.
Current, charge, potential difference, resistance, Ohm's law, I–V characteristics and resistivity.
Series and parallel rules, Kirchhoff's laws, EMF and internal resistance, and potential dividers.
Angular velocity, centripetal acceleration and force, and examples of circular motion.
Coulomb's law, electric field strength, radial and uniform fields, and electric potential.
Newton's law of gravitation, gravitational field strength, radial fields, gravitational potential, and orbits and satellites.
Capacitance, energy stored, capacitors in series and parallel, and charging and discharging.
Magnetic flux density, the motor effect, forces on charges, magnetic flux, and Faraday's and Lenz's laws.
The standard model, quarks and leptons, antimatter, particle interactions and the use of particle accelerators.
Internal energy and temperature, specific heat capacity and latent heat, the gas laws and the kinetic theory.
Conditions for SHM, the defining equation, displacement/velocity/acceleration, energy in SHM, and resonance.
Radioactive decay, half-life, nuclear equations, fission and fusion, and key ideas in astrophysics and cosmology.