QCE Physics Notes
Browse 35 free QCE Physics notes across Units 1-4, organised by topic with syllabus points, worked examples and quick checks.
35 QCE Physics notes across Units 1-4, covering 10 topics for syllabus revision, external exams and ATAR study.
Use these notes as the first pass for a QCE syllabus point, then test the same topic with practice questions, feedback or subject-specific study guides.
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Unit 1: Thermal, nuclear and electrical physics
Heating processes
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Kinetic particle model, temperature and heat transfer
Learn thermal particle model for QCE Physics Unit 1 with worked reasoning, equations, original diagrams and checked practice.
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Specific heat capacity and calorimetry data
Learn specific heat capacity for QCE Physics Unit 1 with worked reasoning, equations, original diagrams and checked practice.
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Phase change, thermal equilibrium and efficiency
Learn thermal energy accounting for QCE Physics Unit 1 with worked reasoning, equations, original diagrams and checked practice.
Ionising radiation and nuclear reactions
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Nuclear model, forces and nuclide stability
Learn nuclear stability for QCE Physics Unit 1 with worked reasoning, equations, original diagrams and checked practice.
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Radioactive decay, radiation and nuclear equations
Learn radioactive decay for QCE Physics Unit 1 with worked reasoning, equations, original diagrams and checked practice.
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Half-life, decay curves and activity
Learn half-life for QCE Physics Unit 1 with worked reasoning, equations, original diagrams and checked practice.
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Fission, fusion, binding energy and mass defect
Learn nuclear energy for QCE Physics Unit 1 with worked reasoning, equations, original diagrams and checked practice.
Electrical circuits
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Charge, current, potential difference and power
Learn circuit energy flow for QCE Physics Unit 1 with worked reasoning, equations, original diagrams and checked practice.
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Resistance, Ohm's law and current-voltage data
Learn resistance and i-v data for QCE Physics Unit 1 with worked reasoning, equations, original diagrams and checked practice.
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Series-parallel circuit analysis and design
Learn circuit analysis for QCE Physics Unit 1 with worked reasoning, equations, original diagrams and checked practice.
Unit 2: Linear motion and waves
Linear motion and force
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Vectors, displacement, velocity and acceleration
Learn motion quantities for QCE Physics Unit 2 with worked reasoning, equations, original diagrams and checked practice.
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Motion graphs, uniform acceleration and gravity
Learn kinematics graphs for QCE Physics Unit 2 with worked reasoning, equations, original diagrams and checked practice.
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Newton's laws, forces and free-body diagrams
Learn forces and motion for QCE Physics Unit 2 with worked reasoning, equations, original diagrams and checked practice.
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Momentum, impulse and one-dimensional collisions
Learn momentum and impulse for QCE Physics Unit 2 with worked reasoning, equations, original diagrams and checked practice.
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Work, energy and collision elasticity
Learn mechanical energy for QCE Physics Unit 2 with worked reasoning, equations, original diagrams and checked practice.
Waves
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Wave properties, boundaries and superposition
Learn wave behaviour for QCE Physics Unit 2 with worked reasoning, equations, original diagrams and checked practice.
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Standing waves, harmonics and resonance
Learn standing waves and sound for QCE Physics Unit 2 with worked reasoning, equations, original diagrams and checked practice.
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Light: refraction, lenses, polarisation and intensity
Learn wave model of light for QCE Physics Unit 2 with worked reasoning, equations, original diagrams and checked practice.
Unit 3: Gravity and electromagnetism
Gravity and motion
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Vector analysis and resultants
Learn QCE Physics vector analysis with component resolution, vector addition, vector subtraction and resultant magnitude and direction.
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Projectile motion
Learn QCE Physics projectile motion with vector components, independent horizontal and vertical motion, no-drag assumptions and range data interpretation.
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Inclined planes and circular motion
Learn inclined plane force diagrams and uniform circular motion for QCE Physics, including normal force, components, period, centripetal acceleration and centripetal force.
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Orbital mechanics
Learn QCE Physics orbital mechanics, including universal gravitation, gravitational fields, Kepler's laws and circular orbit calculations.
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Gravitational fields and Kepler's laws
Learn QCE Physics gravitational fields, inverse-square gravity, field strength, orbital motion and Kepler's third law.
Electromagnetism
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Electrostatics
Learn QCE Physics electrostatics with Coulomb's law, electric fields, field strength, electric potential energy and potential difference.
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Electric field energy and potential
Learn QCE Physics electric fields, electric potential energy, potential difference and work done moving charges in electric fields.
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Magnetic fields
Learn magnetic fields for QCE Physics, including field-line direction, wires, solenoids, magnetic force on charges and current-carrying conductors.
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Electromagnetic induction
Learn electromagnetic induction for QCE Physics, including flux, Faraday's law, Lenz's law, motional EMF, transformers and electromagnetic waves.
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Transformers and electromagnetic waves
Learn QCE Physics transformers, changing magnetic flux, Faraday's law, Lenz's law and electromagnetic wave production.
Unit 4: Revolutions in modern physics
Special relativity
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Special relativity
Learn QCE Physics special relativity with frames of reference, simultaneity, time dilation, length contraction, relativistic momentum and mass-energy equivalence.
Quantum theory
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Quantum theory
Learn QCE Physics quantum theory with double slit evidence, black-body radiation, the photoelectric effect, Bohr's model, line spectra and wave-particle duality.
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Black-body radiation and the photoelectric effect
Learn QCE Physics black-body radiation, Wien's law, photons, threshold frequency, work function and photoelectric effect data.
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Bohr model and line spectra
Learn QCE Physics Bohr model, hydrogen line spectra, quantised angular momentum, standing waves and Rydberg calculations.
The Standard Model
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The Standard Model
Learn the QCE Physics Standard Model topic, including elementary particles, antiparticles, quarks, leptons, baryons, mesons and gauge bosons.
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Particle interactions
Learn QCE Physics particle interactions with lepton number, baryon number, conservation checks, decay diagrams and symmetry principles.
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Particle interaction diagrams
Learn QCE Physics particle interaction diagrams for electron interactions, positron interactions and neutron beta decay with conservation checks.
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