As you will be aware, the first years study leads to an AS qualification which may be as far as you wish to go. If, as is likely, you wish to continue, then the second year will lead to a full A-level.

Topics covered in the first year will include:

• Forces and Motion


• Particles
• Waves

There will be plenty of opportunity for high quality, investigative experimental work, including:

• Calculating the speed of a pellet fired from a rifle (yes, actually fired on the premises).
• Investigating radioactivity.
• Investigating capacitors (with a demonstration of what not to do with one!)

Compulsory.

• Thermal physics and fields.

• Astrophysics.
• Materials.
• Nuclear and particle physics.