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The syllabus statements for the C1 course. Can be used as a checklist for revision

Updated 2015
Matched to the 2011 Learning Outcomes

2011 Nov series
P1
Foundation exam paper

2011 Physics P1
Foundation
Mark Scheme

2011 Nov series
P1
Higher exam paper

2011 Physics P1
Higher
Mark Scheme

2012 June Series
P1
Foundation

2012 June Series
P1
Foundation
Mark Scheme

2012 June Series
P1
Higher

2012 June Series
P1
Higher
Mark Scheme

2012 March series
P1
Foundation exam paper

2012 March series
P1
Foundation exam paper
Mark scheme

2012 March series
P1
Higher exam paper

2012 March series
P1
Higher exam paper
Mark scheme

2012 November Series
P1
Foundation Paper

2012 November
P1 Paper
Foundation
Mark Scheme

2012 November Series
P1
Higher Paper

2012 November
P1 Paper
Higher
Mark Scheme

2013 Series
Past paper
Foundation

2013 June series
Physics P1
Foundation
Mark Scheme

2013 June series
Physics P1
Higher

2013 June series
Physics P1
Higher
Mark Scheme

2013
P1
Foundation

2013
P1
Foundation
Mark Scheme

2013
P1
Higher

2013
P1
Higher
Mark Scheme

2014 paper
P1 mark scheme
Foundation

2014 paper
P1
Foundation

2014 paper
P1
Higher

2014 paper
P1 mark scheme
Higher

2015 Series
P1
Foundation

2015 Series
P1
Foundation
Mark scheme

2015 Series
P1
Higher

2015 Series
P1
Higher
Mark scheme

Past papers

Past papers
Mark Scheme

Past papers

Past papers
Mark Scheme

A brief justification for SETI

BBC website with video clips discussing the evidence for the two theories

An artists impression of a black hole, an area in space so massive, with gravity so extreme, that nothing can escape (not even light), swallowing a nearby star. Said to have been detected by Nasa's Chandra Observatory and the Hubble telescope

Cosmic Microwave Background image from the COBE satellite. CMB is thought to originate from photons of light created just after the Big Bang and released as the Universe cooled. The wavelengths have been stretched and now shows up everywhere in the Universe a microwave radiation. Colour variations represent very small changes in temperature.

More detailed CMB image with the signal from our Galaxy removed showing temperature fluctuations of +-200 microKelvin

A supernova remnant some 6,500 light years from Earth. Probably exploding in 1054 AD

A region of current star formation, subject of the famous 'Pillars of Creation' photograph, some 6,500 light years away.

A not very good copy of a Nasa education video about balancing the Earth's energy budget

Short film showing how earthquakes originate at plate boundaries.

Short animation showing how to measure the focal length of a lens

Portrait of Galileo Galilei. Oil on canvas by Domenico Tintoretto 1605-1606 from the photo gallery at the Museo Galileo, Florence, Itlay

A short video about Galileo's first use of a telescope

Galileo's telescopes in their glass case at the Institute e Museo di Storia della Scienza Firenze in Florence, Italy

Galileo's telescopes alongside each other outside of their glass case at the Institute e Museo di Storia della Scienza Firenze in Florence, Italy

A short, informative, but slightly annoying video with good visuals of the two models

Al Gore giving a short talk about Global Warming

Online test for the P1 Topic

Online test for the P1 Topic

Online test for the P1 Topic

Online test for the P1 Topic

Online test for the P1 Topic

Online test for the P1 Topic

Handout showing red laser light being reflected and refracted by a semicircular glass (plastic) block. Light is refracted at angles less than the critical angle and reflected at angles greater than the critical.

Handout showing red laser light being refracted by a semicircular block and an illustration of a spectrum being formed by refraction

Optical illusions using refraction

Some examples of where ultrasound can be used

Handout showing p and s waves and how they provide evidence for the structure of the Earth's interior.

Short video (9.58 min) starting with Herschel's discovery and then looking at infrared in more detail. The last 3 mins are basically a sales pitch but the infrared images are interesting

What happens if you touch the live wire

A nice romp through the history of the Universe

Second part including the life cycle of the sun

Image from the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope in Hawaii. The horsehead is just a portion of the dustcloud.

Short film showing what will happen to the Earth and the impact of a red giant on the inner planets

Very simple, short (2.08), video telling a silly story to help remember the order of the electromagnetic spectrum. I particularly like the nmemonic at the end

Stars with more than 5 times the mass of our Sun run out of fuel and form red supergiants with very hot cores, hot enough to produce Fe and Ni. Further layer will produce Si, S then O, Ne, Mg and finally Ne and He.

Great visual but really needs a voiceover

High school project. Well explained

Image showing the life cycle of our Sun and more massive stars.

Simple, clear animation showing a longitudinal wave

Resulting from the death of massive stars 4 to 8 times the size of our Sun. A neutron star is so dense that on Earth one teaspoon would have a mass of a billion tons. Usually about 20km in diameter with a mass 1.4 times that of Earth.

Brief video explaining how the Herschel space telescope is using infrared radiation to look out into space. IR doesn't pass through the Earth's atmosphere so the telescope has to be outside of the atmosphere

Visible to the naked eye, just south of Orion's belt. 24 light years across and 1,500 light years away, it is the nearest stellar nursery to Earth with around 700 stars in all stages of formation.

A list of key words for P1 and their meanings

Light hearted way to check that you know the Learning Outcomes. Useful for warm-up sessions.

Just a light hearted way of checking you know the Learning Outcomes

Light hearted way to check that you know the Learning Outcomes. Useful for warm-up sessions.

Just a light hearted way of checking you know the Learning Outcomes

Light hearted way to check that you know the Learning Outcomes. Useful for warm-up sessions.

Just a light hearted way of checking you know the Learning Outcomes

Light hearted way to check that you know the Learning Outcomes. Useful for warm-up sessions.

Just a light hearted way of checking you know the Learning Outcomes

Light hearted way to check that you know the Learning Outcomes. Useful for warm-up sessions.

Just a light hearted way of checking you know the Learning Outcomes

Light hearted way to check that you know the Learning Outcomes. Useful for warm-up sessions.

Just a light hearted way of checking you know the Learning Outcomes

Specimen paper
P1
Foundation Tier
(includes mark scheme)

Specimen paper
P1
Higher Tier
(includes mark scheme)

Specimen paper 2
P1
Foundation Tier
(includes mark scheme)

Specimen paper 2
P1
Higher Tier
(includes mark scheme)

The syllabus statements for the C1 course. Can be used as a checklist for revision or adapted to match, say, revision guides.

Short film with excellent animation of the role of convection currents in the mantle in the movement of tectonic plates.

At the death of a star of similar size to our Sun, the hydrogen runs out and the star starts to collapse. The core temperature rises as helium fuses to form Carbon, Nitrogen and Oxygen and the star swells.

Nasa images compiled to give an indication of the relative sizes of our planets, Sun and other bodies such as Red Giants and a Red Supergiant (Betelguese)

Indication of size:
Sirius is the brightest star in the sky
Pollux, about 34 light years away was the first star to be confirmed with an extrasolar planet.
Aldebaran is a red giant about 65 light years away.
Betelgeuse is a red supergiant, as is Antares

Starting with Ritter's experiment with photographic paper, this short video (3.40) goes on to look at UV-A, UV-B and UV-C before going on to briefly descrive their use in space exploration

Very short clip showing how s and p waves move through the Earth.

SETI - Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence

Knowing the speed of sound in water, the formula speed = distance / time and a computer, it is possible to use ultrasound to produce an image of the sea bed.

Explanation of how sonar is being used to map the sea floor in the caribbean.

An exploding star will supernova and this can last weeks or months. The resulting explosion can trigger new star formation.The last supernova to be seen in the Milky Way was in 1604.

ASTR 100 Honours project from the research school of astronomy and astrophysics from the Australian National University.

Short video (3.23). Looking in a bit more depth at microwave radiation. Includes CMB

Introduction to the elctromagnetic spectrum with links to each of the areas.

Short video (5.20). Introduction to the electromagnetic spectrum with a look at each of the wavelengths in turn.

Short video (3.58). Looking in a bit more depth at radio waves from their first transmission at the end of the 19th Century.

Very short video showing longitudinal waves and transverse waves in a slinky

BBC Nature. Examples of animals that communicate using ultrasound

Short nature film showing how ultrasound is useful to bottlenose dolphins

Nice explanation of how ultrasound works

A dying star, no longer undergoing fusion, with a mass similar to our Sun and a size similar to Earth. A White Dwarf will cool to a Black Dwarf.

Water vapour in the atmosphere absorbs infra red.
Visible light makes it through the atmosphere but images are blurred
The Earth's atmosphere blocks X-rays and gamma rays..