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Practice paper focus areas

• Exam 1 — Advanced Mechanics (projectile, circular/banked, orbital gravitation) — the emphasised strand; Electromagnetism (motor torque, transformers/induction, parallel-conductor force + Lenz's law); The Nature of Light (special relativity, photoelectric effect, Planck graph analysis)
• Exam 2 — Electromagnetism (motor effect, induction, transformers, charged-particle motion) — primary emphasis; Advanced Mechanics (projectile motion); The Nature of Light (photoelectric effect)
• Exam 3 — The Nature of Light (emphasis): photoelectric effect, relativity, spectroscopy/diffraction — 21 marks plus extended response; Advanced Mechanics: projectile, orbital, banked circular motion — 18 marks; Electromagnetism: motor torque/back emf, transformers and AC transmission — 15 marks
• Exam 4 — From the Universe to the Atom (emphasis, 25 marks); Advanced Mechanics (18 marks); Electromagnetism (21 marks)
• Exam 5 — Advanced Mechanics (projectile motion, circular/banked motion, gravitation and orbits, energy) — emphasised; Electromagnetism (DC motors, parallel conductors, electromagnetic induction and transformers); The Nature of Light (photoelectric effect, special relativity)
• Exam 6 — Electromagnetism (33 marks, 41%) — motor effect, transformers, charged particles in fields, electromagnetic induction (Faraday/Lenz), AC generators; Advanced Mechanics (15 marks) — projectile motion, circular orbital motion and gravitation; The Nature of Light (14 marks) — special relativity, photoelectric effect graph analysis
• Exam 7 — Nature of Light (38/80 marks): photoelectric effect, special relativity, polarisation/diffraction, wave-particle duality, EMR models (Maxwell-Hertz-Planck-Einstein); Advanced Mechanics (12 marks): projectile motion, banked circular motion; Electromagnetism (14 marks): force between parallel conductors, ideal transformers and transmission losses
• Exam 8 — From the Universe to the Atom (emphasis, 41/80 marks); Advanced Mechanics — projectiles & circular motion; Electromagnetism — motor force & transformers
• Exam 9 — Advanced Mechanics (projectile, circular & banked-track, gravitation/Kepler) — emphasised weighting; Electromagnetism (transformers, parallel-conductor force, motor/Faraday-Lenz); The Nature of Light (photoelectric effect, EMR spectrum graph interpretation, special relativity)
• Exam 10 — Electromagnetism (motor effect, transformers, induction, charged particles) — heavily weighted; Advanced Mechanics (projectile, orbital, banked circular motion); The Nature of Light (photoelectric effect, wave-particle duality)
• Exam 11 — Nature of Light (photoelectric, spectroscopy, special relativity, wave-particle models) - ~41% weighting as the contextual emphasis; Calculation rigour: every numerical item shown formula -> substitution -> answer with units, recomputed and verified; Data/graph interpretation (photoelectric stopping-voltage vs frequency graph yielding Planck's constant and work function)
• Exam 12 — Advanced Mechanics (projectile, circular & orbital motion); Electromagnetism (motor effect, induction, transformers); The Nature of Light (EM spectrum, photoelectric effect, special relativity)
• Exam 13 — Advanced Mechanics (projectile, circular/banked, orbital & gravitation, synthesis) — 36/80; Electromagnetism (motor effect, transformers/induction, charged particles in fields) — 20/80; Nature of Light (photoelectric effect, quantum model) — 8/80
• Exam 14 — Electromagnetism (emphasis): motor effect, force between parallel conductors, transformers, charged particles in fields, EM induction & generators (30 marks); Advanced Mechanics: projectile motion, circular motion and satellite orbits (13 marks); The Nature of Light: special relativity (time dilation, length contraction) and the photoelectric effect with graphing (15 marks)
• Exam 15 — The Nature of Light (heaviest weighting — photoelectric effect, special relativity, blackbody radiation and spectra); Advanced Mechanics (projectile motion, circular/banked motion, orbital mechanics and Kepler's laws); Electromagnetism (charged particles in fields, transformers, electromagnetic induction, DC motors)
• Exam 16 — From the Universe to the Atom (heaviest weighting); Advanced Mechanics; Electromagnetism
• Exam 17 — Advanced Mechanics (projectile, circular/banked, gravitation, Kepler, 2D momentum) — emphasised, 34 marks; Electromagnetism (motor torque, back-emf, charged particle in B-field, transformer, Faraday/Lenz) — 22 marks; The Nature of Light (photoelectric effect, special relativity / time dilation) — 15 marks
• Exam 18 — Electromagnetism (emphasis, 31 marks): parallel-wire forces, transformers, charged particles in crossed/uniform fields, electromagnetic induction via Faraday's and Lenz's laws, and DC motor / back-EMF principles; Advanced Mechanics: projectile motion and circular/orbital satellite motion; The Nature of Light: photoelectric effect, special relativity (muon time dilation/length contraction) and wave-particle duality
• Exam 19 — The Nature of Light (special relativity, photoelectric effect, EM spectrum/Maxwell, blackbody radiation) — heaviest weighting per the exam's context flavour; Advanced Mechanics (projectile motion, uniform circular motion, gravitation and orbital mechanics); Electromagnetism (charged particles in fields, motor effect, Faraday/Lenz induction, ideal transformers)
• Exam 20 — From the Universe to the Atom (heavy emphasis: 40 of 80 marks); Calculation chains: formula to substitution to answer with units, every value recomputed; Photoelectric data/graph interpretation (Q25)