Physics IGCSE Cambridge

Explore space physics by examining the sun as a medium-size star and its formation. Explore nuclear fusion, star lifecycles, redshift and the cosmic microwave background radiation.

Explore earth’s rotation and axial tilt, day and night, and the elliptical orbit shaping seasons; examine the moon as a satellite, asteroid belt, comets, and gravitational field strength.

Solve thermal physics problems by calculating the sunflower oil’s specific heat capacity with Q = m c ΔT. Explore latent heat, evaporation cooling, and density to analyze energy changes.

Explore how thermometers measure temperature, from liquid-in-glass to thermistors and thermocouples, and how specific heat capacity and latent heat govern phase change and thermal expansion.

Examine measuring string extension to infer weight, plot length against distance from a pivot, and assess precision and parallax; then explore refraction with a ray-trace setup and air-gap cooling.

Explore atomic structure, isotopes, and radioactivity, including alpha, beta, gamma radiation, ionization, cloud chambers, half-life, and applications in medicine, with fusion and fission basics.

Master atomic physics fundamentals with past paper style questions on beta decay and xenon isotopes, half-life and background corrections, radiation types, and shielding experiments.

Analyze a decay curve to determine the sample's half-life while accounting for background radiation. Explore how alpha, beta, and gamma emissions interact with magnetic fields and the atomic nucleus.

Explore atomic physics through past paper questions, covering isotopes and nuclear structure, half-lives and count rates, radiation types and shielding, and practical magnetic-field rules for charged particles.

Learn to determine acceleration from velocity-time graphs using tangents, compute distance from area, and explain motion with forces; explore image formation, sound waves, ultrasound, and basic circuits.

Explore conduction, convection, and radiation as heat transfer methods in solids, liquids, and vacuums, including how metals conduct heat, cross-sectional area effects, and insulation strategies.

Explore the kinetic model of matter, detailing solids, liquids, and gases. Learn about phase changes, heating curves, latent heat, evaporation versus boiling, and Brownian motion.

Explore how heat energy transfers to thermometers, understand internal energy and temperature in Kelvin and Celsius, and learn about specific heat capacity, latent heat, mercury, thermistor, thermocouple, and thermal expansion.

Explore thermal physics concepts through thermometer linearity, range, and sensitivity; analyze specific heat, latent heat of fusion, convection, and temperature measurement using thermocouples and thermistors.

Apply thermal physics problem solving to real scenarios, including sunflower oil's specific heat capacity. Analyze energy transfer, latent heat, and evaporation effects on temperature.

Explains light as a transverse wave and its reflection, refraction, and diffraction; covers incident and reflected rays, normal, critical angle, total internal reflection, Snell's law, and optical fibers.

Explore the fundamental properties of waves, including transverse and longitudinal types, displacement, amplitude, wavelength, frequency and time period, and learn how ripple tanks illustrate reflection, refraction, and diffraction.

Explore sound as a longitudinal wave with compression and rarefaction, and relate its speed and measurement experiments to the electromagnetic spectrum from gamma rays to radio waves.

Students explore how a converging lens magnifies objects when the object is between the lens and focal point, producing an upright virtual image, with ray diagrams and dispersion notes.

Measuring speed of sound with a starting pistol, stopwatch, and measuring tape, applying speed equals distance over time; discusses wave properties such as compression and rarefaction, wavelength, frequency, and refraction.

Explore the turning effect of moment by learning how force times perpendicular distance creates moments, and how equilibrium requires equal anticlockwise and clockwise moments with zero resultant force.

Learn to calculate moments using force times perpendicular distance, apply turning effects around a pivot, and analyze equilibrium with center of mass in practical slab and crane problems.

Explore Hooke's law for elastic springs, showing force is proportional to extension up to the elastic limit, with F = k e and the related force-extension graph.

Review Cambridge IGCSE physics paper 1 content, covering demagnetizing magnets with AC, emf and resistance concepts, power and energy calculations, diodes, logic gates, induction, transformers, and radiation.

Analyze how the air gap between a copper container and a larger metal vessel affects the rate of water cooling, outlining independent, dependent, and control variables and the experimental method.

Master balancing of a metre rule around a pivot—mark the center of mass, or use a thread loop for precise 95 cm placement—and analyze data from cooling and electrical experiments.

Explores pendulum experiments to determine g, resistance and circuit measurements in series and parallel configurations, and lens focal length with graphing and reliability tips for Cambridge physics.

Solve circuits and graphs, explore current, voltage, and parallel resistance; analyze electromagnetic induction and Lenz's law. Review nuclear fission, radioactive decay, half life calculations, and shielding.

Analyze motion using speed time graphs, including constant acceleration and deceleration, and explore energy changes in circular motion and gravity. Cover optics, circuits, radiation, and radioactivity concepts from IGCSE physics.

Explore key concepts from the physics paper 2 june 2018, including measurement, motion graphs, forces and weight, energy transfer, power, pressure, density, and light and waves.

Investigate factors affecting crater size by planning a controlled sand experiment, varying ball mass or drop height, measuring crater diameter, and plotting results.