This title features clearly written text and extensive colour diagrams, experiments and examples. Summaries, short and long questions and multiple-choice questions ensure thorough exam preparation and revision. Frequent hints and questions provide invaluable support and facilitate study at home. It provides excellent support from GCSE; in particular Double Award Science, and extra support with mathematics. Fully worked solutions are further explained by an interactive CD-ROM.

 

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 736 pages in this book. This book was published 1999 by Oxford University Press .

This book has the following chapters: Theme A Mechanics: Dynamics, force and energy, statistics, rotational dynamics, oscillations; Theme A Materials: Molecules and materials, strength of solids, fluids, thermal properties of materials, gases, thermodynamics; Theme C Fields: gravitational fields, electric fields, magnetic fields, electromagnetic fields; Theme D Waves: wave motion, sound, physical optics, optical instruments, electromagnetic waves. Astronomy and cosmology; Theme E Electricity: Current and charge, meters and bridges, alternating current circuits; electronics; communications; Theme F Inside the atom: The properties of the electron, radioactivity, electrons inside the atom, nuclear energy, particles and patterns; Theme G Physics in medicine: biomedical measurements, non-ionizing radiation, using ionizing radiation, the physics of the human body.