Physics study guides

A deep-dive SQA Higher Physics guide to Area 1 Our Dynamic Universe. Covers the equations of motion and motion graphs, forces, energy and power, collisions, momentum and impulse, gravitation and projectiles, special relativity with time dilation and length contraction, and the expanding universe with the Doppler effect, redshift and the Big Bang.

A deep-dive SQA Higher Physics guide to Area 2 Particles and Waves. Covers the standard model of fundamental particles, forces on charged particles and accelerators, nuclear fission and fusion with mass-energy, wave-particle duality and the photoelectric effect, interference and diffraction with the grating equation, and refraction and the line spectra produced by energy-level transitions.

A deep-dive SQA Higher Physics guide to Area 3 Electricity. Covers monitoring and measuring AC with peak and rms values, current, voltage, power and resistance with series, parallel and potential dividers, electrical sources and internal resistance, capacitors and the charge and energy they store, and semiconductors and the p-n junction in diodes and LEDs.

A deep-dive SQA Higher Physics guide to Researching Physics and the skills of scientific inquiry. Covers scale-reading, random and systematic uncertainties, the mean and approximate random uncertainty, percentage uncertainty, combining uncertainties by adding in quadrature, and how these skills are assessed in the question paper and the assignment.