A-level Physics Specimen data booklet Physics

A-level Physics data and formulae
For use in exams from the June 2017 Series onwards
DATA - FUNDAMENTAL CONSTANTS AND VALUES
Quantity
speed of light in vacuo
Symbol
Value
Units
๐‘
3.00 × 108
m s –1
µ0
permeability of free space
permittivity of free space
magnitude of the charge of electron
the Planck constant
molar gas constant
the Boltzmann constant
1.60 × 10–19
C
8.85 × 10–12
โ„Ž
6.63 × 10–34
6.67 × 10–11
N m2 kg –2
๐‘…
8.31
J K –1 mol–1
๐‘’
๐‘A
the Avogadro constant
H m–1
ε0
๐บ
gravitational constant
4π × 10–7
6.02 × 1023
W m–2 K –4
kg
the Wien constant
α
5.67 × 10–8
electron rest mass
(equivalent to 5.5 × 10–4 u)
electron charge/mass ratio
๐‘še
9.11 × 10–31
proton rest mass
(equivalent to 1.00728 u)
๐‘šp
1.67(3) × 10–27
neutron rest mass
(equivalent to 1.00867 u)
๐‘šn
1.67(5) × 10–27
๐‘”
9.81
๐‘’
๐‘še
๐‘’
๐‘šp
๐‘”
acceleration due to gravity
atomic mass unit
(1u is equivalent to 931.5 MeV)
ALGEBRAIC EQUATION
quadratic equation
− b ± ๏ฟฝb2 − 4ac
x=
2a
ASTRONOMICAL DATA
Body
Mass/kg
Mean radius/m
Sun
1.99 × 1030
6.96 × 108
Earth
Version 1.2
5.97 × 1024
6.37 × 106
mol–1
1.38 × 10–23
σ
gravitational field strength
Js
๐‘˜
the Stefan constant
proton charge/mass ratio
F m–1
u
2.90 × 10–3
J K –1
mK
1.76 × 1011
C kg –1
9.58 × 107
C kg –1
9.81
N kg –1
1.661 × 10–27
kg
kg
kg
m s –2
GEOMETRICAL EQUATIONS
arc length
= rθ
circumference of circle
= 2πr
area of circle
= πr2
curved surface area of
cylinder
= 2πrh
area of sphere
= 4πr2
volume of sphere
=
4
3
πr3
1
Waves
Particle Physics
Class
Name
Symbol
Rest energy/MeV
wave speed
photon
photon
γ
lepton
neutrino
ve
0
first
harmonic
0
fringe
spacing
0
vµ
mesons
electron
e±
muon
µ±
0.510999
π±
π meson
π
±
K meson
baryons
Properties of quarks
antiquarks have opposite signs
Type
Charge
u
1
3
1
e
3
+
1
3
0
1
e
3
+
1
3
−1
2
3
−
s
−
Strangeness
+
+
d
Baryon
number
e
0
critical angle sin ๐œƒc =
velocity and
acceleration
๐‘ฃ =
equations of
motion
Antiparticles:
−1
Photons and energy levels
๐น = ๐‘š๐‘š
force
๐น =
force
photon energy
photoelectricity
energy levels
de Broglie wavelength
2
๐ธ = โ„Ž๐‘“ = โ„Ž๐‘ /λ
โ„Ž๐‘“ = φ + ๐ธk (max)
โ„Ž๐‘“ = ๐ธ1 – ๐ธ2
๐œ† =
โ„Ž
โ„Ž
=
๐‘
๐‘š๐‘š
๐‘  =๏ฟฝ
๐‘ข+๐‘ฃ
๏ฟฝ๐‘ก
2
๐‘  = ๐‘ข๐‘ข +
โˆ†(๐‘š๐‘š)
โˆ†๐‘ก
๐‘Š = ๐น ๐‘  cos ๐œƒ
๐‘ƒ =
โˆ†๐‘Š
โˆ†๐‘ก
1
๐‘š ๐‘ฃ2
2
, ๐‘ƒ = ๐น๐น
๐‘’๐‘’๐‘’๐‘’๐‘’๐‘’๐‘’๐‘’๐‘’๐‘’ =
Materials
๐‘š
๐‘Ž๐‘Ž 2
2
Δ๐ธp = ๐‘š๐‘šΔโ„Ž
๐‘ข๐‘ข๐‘ข๐‘ข๐‘ข๐‘ข ๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘๐‘๐‘๐‘
๐‘–๐‘–๐‘–๐‘–๐‘– ๐‘๐‘๐‘๐‘๐‘
Hooke’s law ๐น = ๐‘˜ Δ๐ฟ
๐‘‰
Young modulus =
energy stored
โˆ†๐‘ฃ
โˆ†๐‘ก
๐น Δ๐‘ก = Δ(๐‘š๐‘š)
work, energy
and power
density ๐œŒ =
๐‘Ž =
๐‘ฃ 2 = ๐‘ข2 + 2๐‘Ž๐‘Ž
+1
e+ , ν e , µ + , ν µ
for ๐‘›1 > ๐‘›2
โˆ†๐‘ 
โˆ†๐‘ก
๐ธk =
e , νe ; µ , νµ
๐‘›1
๐‘ฃ = ๐‘ข + ๐‘Ž๐‘Ž
Lepton number
Particles:
๐‘›2
moment = ๐น๐น
moments
impulse
−
๐‘
๐‘s
for two different substances of refractive indices n1 and n2,
Properties of Leptons
−
๐‘‘ sin ๐œƒ = ๐‘›๐‘›
Mechanics
939.551
n
๐‘ 
diffraction
grating
497.762
938.257
neutron
λ๐ท
law of refraction ๐‘›1 sin ๐œƒ1 = ๐‘›2 sin ๐œƒ2
p
proton
๐‘ค =
134.972
K
0
1 ๐‘‡
๏ฟฝ
2๐‘™ ๐œ‡
๐‘“ =
refractive index of a substance s, ๐‘› =
493.821
K
๐‘“ =
1
๐‘‡
period
105.659
139.576
0
๐‘ = ๐‘“๐‘“
๐‘ก๐‘ก๐‘ก๐‘ก๐‘ก๐‘ก๐‘ก ๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘ 
๐‘ก๐‘ก๐‘ก๐‘ก๐‘ก๐‘ก๐‘ก ๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘ 
1
๐ธ = 2 ๐นΔ๐ฟ
tensile stress =
tensile strain =
๐น
๐ด
โˆ†๐ฟ
๐ฟ
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Electricity
Gravitational fields
๐ผ =
current and pd
resistivity
resistors in series
resistors in parallel
power
emf
Circular motion
๐œŒ=
โˆ†๐‘„
โˆ†๐‘ก
๐‘‰ =
๐‘…๐‘…
๐ฟ
๐‘Š
๐‘„
๐‘… =
๐‘‰
๐ผ
magnitude of gravitational
field strength in a radial field
๐‘…T
work done
1
=
๐‘…1
+
1
๐‘…2
+
1
+โ‹ฏ
๐‘…3
๐‘‰
๐‘…
๐‘ƒ = ๐‘‰๐‘‰ = ๐ผ 2 ๐‘… =
๐œ€ =
magnitude of
angular speed
๐ธ
๐‘„
ω =
2
๐œ€ = ๐ผ(๐‘… + ๐‘Ÿ)
centripetal acceleration
๐‘š๐‘š 2
๐น =
= ๐‘šω2 ๐‘Ÿ
๐‘Ÿ
centripetal force
Simple harmonic motion
๐‘Ž = − ๐œ”2 ๐‘ฅ
acceleration
๐‘ฅ = ๐ด ๐‘๐‘๐‘ (๐œ” ๐‘ก)
displacement
๐‘ฃ = ±๐œ”
speed
๐‘ฃ๐‘š๐‘š๐‘š = ๐œ” ๐ด
maximum speed
maximum acceleration
for a mass-spring system
for a simple pendulum
Thermal physics
energy to change
temperature
energy to change
state
gas law
kinetic theory model
kinetic energy of gas
molecule
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๏ฟฝ(๐ด2
2
−
๐‘ฅ 2)
๐‘š
๐‘˜
๐‘™
๐‘‡ = 2๐œ‹ ๏ฟฝ
๐‘”
๐บ๐บ
๐‘Ÿ
Δ๐‘‰
๐‘” =–
Δ๐‘Ÿ
๐น =
1 ๐‘„1 ๐‘„2
4๐œ‹๐œ€0 ๐‘Ÿ 2
๐น = ๐ธ๐ธ
electric potential
๐ธ =
1 ๐‘„
4๐œ‹๐œ€0 ๐‘Ÿ 2
capacitance
๐ธ =
work done
field strength for a
radial field
capacitor energy
stored
capacitor charging
decay of charge
time constant
๐‘„ = ๐‘š๐‘šΔ๐œƒ
๐บ๐บ
๐‘Ÿ2
๐‘‰ =–
๐‘‰
๐‘‘
๐‘Ž๐‘š๐‘š๐‘š = ๐œ” ๐ด
๐‘‡ = 2๐œ‹ ๏ฟฝ
๐น
๐‘š
Δ๐‘Š = ๐‘šΔ๐‘‰
๐ธ =
field strength for a
uniform field
๐‘ฃ2
๐‘Ž =
= ω2 ๐‘Ÿ
๐‘Ÿ
๐บ๐‘š1 ๐‘š2
๐‘Ÿ2
Electric fields and capacitors
force on a charge
ω = 2๐œ‹๐œ‹
๐‘” =
gravitational potential
force between two
point charges
๐‘ฃ
๐‘Ÿ
๐‘” =
gravitational field strength
๐‘…T = ๐‘…1 + ๐‘…2 + ๐‘…3 + …
1
๐น =
force between two masses
Δ๐‘Š = ๐‘„Δ๐‘‰
๐‘‰ =
1 ๐‘„
4๐œ‹๐œ€0 ๐‘Ÿ
๐ธ =
1
1
1 ๐‘„2
๐‘„๐‘„ = ๐ถ๐‘‰ 2 =
2
2
2 ๐ถ
Δ๐‘‰
Δ๐‘Ÿ
๐‘„
๐ถ =
๐‘‰
๐ด๐œ€0 ๐œ€r
๐ถ =
๐‘‘
๐‘„ = ๐‘„0 (1 − e–๐‘ก/๐‘…๐‘… )
๐‘„ = ๐‘„0 e–๐‘ก/๐‘…๐‘…
๐‘…๐‘…
๐‘„ = ๐‘š๐‘™
๐‘๐‘ = ๐‘›๐‘›๐‘›
๐‘๐‘ = ๐‘๐‘๐‘
1
๐‘ ๐‘š (๐‘rms )2
3
1
3
3๐‘…๐‘…
๐‘š (๐‘rms )2 = ๐‘˜๐‘˜ =
2
2
2๐‘A
๐‘๐‘ =
3
Magnetic fields
ะค = ๐ต๐ต
magnetic flux
๐‘ะค = ๐ต๐ต๐ต cos ๐œƒ
magnetic flux linkage
๐œ€ = ๐‘
magnitude of induced emf
๐œ€ = ๐ต๐ต๐ตω sin ω t
๐ผrms =
๐‘s
๐ผ0
√2
๐‘p
=
the inverse square law for γ radiation
activity
half-life
nuclear radius
energy-mass equation
๐‘‰s
๐‘‰rms =
๐‘‰p
๐‘’๐‘’๐‘’๐‘’๐‘’๐‘’๐‘’๐‘’๐‘’๐‘’ =
Nuclear physics
radioactive decay
Δะค
Δ๐‘ก
๐‘ะค = ๐ต๐ต๐ต cos ๐œƒ
emf induced in a rotating coil
transformer equations
Astrophysics
๐น = ๐ต๐ต๐ต
force on a moving charge
alternating current
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๐น = ๐ต๐ต๐ต
force on a current
Δ๐‘
Δ๐‘ก
๐ผ =
๐‘˜
๐‘ฅ2
๐‘‰0
√2
๐ผs ๐‘‰s
๐ผp ๐‘‰p
= – ๐œ† ๐‘, ๐‘ = ๐‘o e−λ๐‘ก
๐ด = ๐œ†๐œ†
๐‘‡½ =
ln 2
๐œ†
๐‘… = ๐‘…0 ๐ด1/3
๐ธ = ๐‘š๐‘š 2
1 astronomical unit = 1.50 × 1011 m
1 light year = 9.46 × 1015 m
1 parsec = 206265 AU = 3.08 × 1016 m
= 3.26 light year
Hubble constant, ๐ป = 65 km s–1 Mpc–1
๐‘€ =
๐‘Ž๐‘Ž๐‘Ž๐‘Ž๐‘Ž ๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘  ๐‘๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘–๐‘–๐‘–๐‘– ๐‘Ž๐‘Ž ๐‘’๐‘’๐‘’
๐‘Ž๐‘Ž๐‘Ž๐‘Ž๐‘Ž ๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘  ๐‘๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘œ ๐‘Ž๐‘Ž ๐‘ข๐‘ข๐‘ข๐‘ข๐‘ข๐‘ข๐‘ข ๐‘’๐‘’๐‘’
in normal adjustment
Rayleigh criterion
magnitude equation
Wien’s law
Stefan’s law
Schwarzschild radius
Doppler shift for v << c
red shift
Hubble’s law
Medical physics
lens equations
๐‘€ =
๐œƒ ≈
intensity level
absorption
ultrasound imaging
4
๐‘‘
10
๐œ†max ๐‘‡ = 2.9 × 10−3 m K
๐‘ƒ = ๐œŽ๐œŽ๐‘‡ 4
๐‘…s ≈
2GM
c2
Δ๐‘“
Δ๐œ†
๐‘ฃ
=–
=
๐‘“
๐œ†
๐‘
๐‘ฃ
๐‘ง= −
๐‘
๐‘ฃ = ๐ป๐ป
1
๐‘“
๐‘ฃ
๐‘š =
๐‘ข
๐‘ƒ =
๐‘“
=
1
๐‘ข
+
1
๐‘ฃ
๐ผ0 = 1.0 × 10−12 W m−2
๐‘–๐‘–๐‘–๐‘–๐‘–๐‘–๐‘–๐‘–๐‘– ๐‘™๐‘™๐‘™๐‘™๐‘™ = 10 log
๐ผ = ๐ผ0 ๐‘’ –๐œ‡๐œ‡
๐œ‡
๐œ‡m =
๐œŒ
๐‘ = ๐‘๐‘
๐ผ๐‘Ÿ
half-lives
๐œ†
๐ท
๐‘š – ๐‘€ = 5 log
1
threshold of hearing
๐‘“0
๐‘“e
๐ผ๐‘–
1
๐‘‡E
=
=
๏ฟฝ
๐ผ
๐ผ0
๐‘2 − ๐‘1 2
๐‘2 + ๐‘1
1
๐‘‡B
+
๏ฟฝ
1
๐‘‡P
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Engineering physics
moment of inertia
angular kinetic energy
equations of angular
motion
Turning points in physics
๐ผ = Σ๐‘š๐‘š 2
๐ธ๐‘˜ =
๐น =
electrons in fields
1 2
๐ผω
2
๐น = ๐ต๐ต๐ต
๐‘š๐‘š
๐‘Ÿ =
๐ต๐ต
ω2 = ω1 + ๐›ผ ๐‘ก
ω2 2 = ω1 2 + 2๐›ผ๐›ผ
๐›ผ๐›ผ
2
(๐œ”1 + ๐œ”2 ) ๐‘ก
๐œƒ =
2
๐‘‡ = ๐ผ๐›ผ
Millikan’s experiment
๐‘‡Δ๐‘ก = Δ(๐ผ๐ผ)
special relativity
๐œƒ = ω1 ๐‘ก +
torque
2
½ ๐‘š๐‘š 2 = ๐‘’๐‘’
๐‘„๐‘„
= ๐‘š๐‘š
๐‘‘
๐น = 6๐œ‹๐œ‹๐œ‹๐œ‹
๐‘ =
Maxwell’s formula
๐‘‡ = ๐น๐‘Ÿ
๐‘Ž๐‘Ž๐‘Ž๐‘Ž๐‘Ž๐‘Ž๐‘Ž ๐‘š๐‘š๐‘š๐‘š๐‘š๐‘š๐‘š๐‘š = ๐ผω
angular momentum
angular impulse
๐œ† =
๐‘ก =
๐‘Š = ๐‘‡๐‘‡
work done
๐‘ƒ = ๐‘‡ω
power
๐‘„ = Δ๐‘ˆ + ๐‘Š
thermodynamics
๐‘๐‘ ๐›พ = constant
heat engines
efficiency =
maximum theoretical
efficiency =
๐‘Š
๐‘„H − ๐‘„C
=
๐‘„H
๐‘„H
๐‘‡H − ๐‘‡C
๐‘‡H
resonant frequency
× (๐‘›๐‘›๐‘›๐‘›๐‘›๐‘› ๐‘œ๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘๐‘๐‘๐‘๐‘ ๐‘๐‘๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘ )
× (๐‘›๐‘›๐‘›๐‘›๐‘›๐‘› ๐‘œ๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘๐‘๐‘๐‘๐‘๐‘๐‘๐‘)
heat pumps and refrigerators
summing amplifier
heat pump: ๐ถ๐ถ๐ถhp =
๐‘„C
๐‘Š
๐‘„H
๐‘Š
=
=
๐‘„C
๐‘„H − ๐‘„C
๐‘„H
๐‘„H − ๐‘„C
difference amplifier
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๏ฟฝ1 − ๐‘ฃ2
๐‘
1
๐‘‰out
๐‘…f
=−
๐‘‰in
๐‘…in
๐‘‰out
๐‘…f
=1+
๐‘‰in
๐‘…l
๐‘‰out = −๐‘…f ๏ฟฝ
๐‘‰1 ๐‘‰2 ๐‘‰3
+
+
+ โ‹ฏ๏ฟฝ
๐‘…1 ๐‘…2 ๐‘…3
๐‘‰out = (๐‘‰+ − ๐‘‰− )
Bandwidth requirement:
for AM
for FM
๐‘š0 ๐‘ 2
๐‘‰out = ๐ดOL (๐‘‰+ − ๐‘‰− )
inverting amplifier
non-inverting amplifier
refrigerator: ๐ถ๐ถ๐ถref =
๐‘ฃ2
๐‘2
2๐œ‹ √๐ฟ๐ฟ
๐‘“0
๐‘„=
๐‘“B
operational amplifiers:
open loop
output or brake power ๐‘ƒ = ๐‘‡ω
friction power = ๐‘–๐‘–๐‘–๐‘–๐‘–๐‘–๐‘–๐‘–๐‘– ๐‘๐‘๐‘๐‘๐‘ – ๐‘๐‘๐‘๐‘๐‘ ๐‘๐‘๐‘๐‘๐‘
2
๏ฟฝ1 − ๐‘ฃ2
๐‘
๐‘“0 =
input power = calorific value × fuel flow rate
indicated power = (๐‘Ž๐‘Ž๐‘Ž๐‘Ž ๐‘œ๐‘œ ๐‘ − ๐‘‰ ๐‘™๐‘™๐‘™๐‘™)
โ„Ž
โ„Ž
=
๐‘
√2๐‘š๐‘š๐‘š
๐‘ก0
Electronics
Q-factor
work done per cycle = area of loop
๏ฟฝ๐œ‡0 ๐œ€0
๐ธ = ๐‘š ๐‘2 =
๐‘๐‘ = constant
isothermal change
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๐‘™ = ๐‘™0 ๏ฟฝ1 −
๐‘Š = ๐‘Δ๐‘‰
adiabatic change
๐‘’๐‘’
๐‘‘
๐‘…f
๐‘…l
๐‘๐‘๐‘๐‘๐‘๐‘๐‘๐‘โ„Ž = 2๐‘“M
๐‘๐‘๐‘๐‘๐‘๐‘๐‘๐‘โ„Ž = 2(โˆ†๐‘“ + ๐‘“M )
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