Physics

Transition Work from A Level Physics

Congratulations on completing the A level physics course.

The ideas below should help to further develop your problem solving skills, but there are also lots of fun challenges to keep you amused.

Best wishes, and good luck!

A few resources to help and test your Physics knowledge:

• Isaac Physics: Lots of maths and physics problem solving questions.
• British Physics Olympiad: Papers and solutions of problem solving type questions.
• https://www.arborsci.com/pages/next-time-questions: Fun questions designed to make you think about physical concepts.
• Brilliant.org: This website has some resources to test your mathematical and physics knowledge.

Careers:

• http://www.physics.org/careers
• http://www.physics.org/
• I want to study Engineering

Internships:

• Summer Internships in STEM

Engineering. Investment Banking. Medicine. Computer Science. Architecture and more.

Live & Online. For Ages 15-18. August 2020

Reading List:

Mr Tompkins in Paperback, George Gamow

God, Stephen Hawking and the Multiverse, David Hutchings and David Wilkinson

What is Real?, Adam Becker

Bad Science, Ben Goldacre

Free Radicals: The Secret Anarchy of Science, Michael Brooks

Galileo Goes to Jail, Ronald Numbers

Fun Challenges:

• https://www.jamesdysonfoundation.co.uk/resources/challenge-cards.html

Other Websites:

• https://www.nasa.gov/
• https://hubblesite.org/