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Topics in the resource inventory

• Kinematics: vectors, motion graphs and the equations of uniform acceleration
• Projectile motion with different launch and landing heights
• Momentum, impulse, two-dimensional collisions, work, energy and power
• Newton's laws: free-body diagrams, inclines, mass-flow and horizontal circular motion
• Universal gravitation, gravitational fields, Kepler's third law and satellites
• Coulomb's law and electric fields of point charges
• Potential difference, uniform fields, electron guns and Millikan's experiment
• Magnetic fields of currents, forces on wires, parallel conductors and DC motors
• Charged particles in magnetic fields: circular paths, velocity selectors and mass spectrometers
• Electromagnetic induction: moving conductors, AC generators, Lenz's law and eddy currents
• Wave properties, wave graphs and pulses at boundaries
• Refraction, Snell's law, dispersion and total internal reflection
• Superposition, beats, resonance and standing waves on strings and in pipes
• Two-source interference, path difference and Young's double slit
• Diffraction, resolution and polarisation
• Black-body radiation, Wien's law and the photoelectric effect
• X-rays, Compton scattering, photon momentum and de Broglie waves
• Energy levels, line spectra, excitation and ionisation
• Radioactive decay, decay equations, activity and half-life
• Mass defect, binding energy, fission, fusion and the Standard Model of the nucleon