QCE Physics Syllabus Notes

Free QCE Physics notes for Queensland syllabus-aligned revision, worked examples, common mistakes and quick checks.

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.

Unit 3: Gravity and electromagnetism

Gravity and motion

  • Vector analysis and resultants

    Learn QCE Physics vector analysis with component resolution, vector addition, vector subtraction and resultant magnitude and direction.

  • Projectile motion

    Learn QCE Physics projectile motion with vector components, independent horizontal and vertical motion, no-drag assumptions and range data interpretation.

  • 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.

  • Orbital mechanics

    Learn QCE Physics orbital mechanics, including universal gravitation, gravitational fields, Kepler's laws and circular orbit calculations.

  • Gravitational fields and Kepler's laws

    Learn QCE Physics gravitational fields, inverse-square gravity, field strength, orbital motion and Kepler's third law.

Electromagnetism

  • Electrostatics

    Learn QCE Physics electrostatics with Coulomb's law, electric fields, field strength, electric potential energy and potential difference.

  • Electric field energy and potential

    Learn QCE Physics electric fields, electric potential energy, potential difference and work done moving charges in electric fields.

  • Magnetic fields

    Learn magnetic fields for QCE Physics, including field-line direction, wires, solenoids, magnetic force on charges and current-carrying conductors.

  • Electromagnetic induction

    Learn electromagnetic induction for QCE Physics, including flux, Faraday's law, Lenz's law, motional EMF, transformers and electromagnetic waves.

  • 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

  • Special relativity

    Learn QCE Physics special relativity with frames of reference, simultaneity, time dilation, length contraction, relativistic momentum and mass-energy equivalence.

Quantum theory

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Bohr model and line spectra

    Learn QCE Physics Bohr model, hydrogen line spectra, quantised angular momentum, standing waves and Rydberg calculations.

The Standard Model

  • The Standard Model

    Learn the QCE Physics Standard Model topic, including elementary particles, antiparticles, quarks, leptons, baryons, mesons and gauge bosons.

  • Particle interactions

    Learn QCE Physics particle interactions with lepton number, baryon number, conservation checks, decay diagrams and symmetry principles.

  • Particle interaction diagrams

    Learn QCE Physics particle interaction diagrams for electron interactions, positron interactions and neutron beta decay with conservation checks.