A Level Physics topical past papers
4,711 Pearson Edexcel A Level Physics past-paper questions, sorted into 13 topics. Pick a topic to start practising online and check your answers against the official mark scheme.
Topics
Oscillations
Practise →- Simple Harmonic Motion75 questions
- Simple harmonic oscillators (mass-spring system, simple pendulum)69 questions
- Displacement-time and velocity-time graphs for SHM44 questions
- Resonance53 questions
- Equations for simple harmonic motion79 questions
- Free and forced oscillations39 questions
- Damping55 questions
- Conservation of energy in oscillating systems27 questions
Electric Circuits
Practise →- Electric current107 questions
- Potential difference117 questions
- Resistance and Ohm's law135 questions
- Distribution of current in a circuit47 questions
- Distribution of potential differences in a circuit69 questions
- Combining resistances in series and parallel79 questions
- Power and energy equations108 questions
- Current-potential difference graphs73 questions
- Resistivity81 questions
- Current equation I = nqvA57 questions
- Potential along a uniform current-carrying wire9 questions
- Potential divider circuits45 questions
- Variable resistance potential dividers (thermistors, LDRs)53 questions
- Electromotive force (e.m.f.) and internal resistance88 questions
- Resistance and temperature78 questions
- Resistance and illumination (LDRs)25 questions
Further Mechanics
Practise →- Impulse55 questions
- Conservation of linear momentum in two dimensions51 questions
- Elastic and inelastic collisions51 questions
- Kinetic energy of a non-relativistic particle96 questions
- Angular displacement8 questions
- Angular velocity69 questions
- Centripetal acceleration40 questions
- Centripetal force84 questions
Electric and Magnetic Fields
Practise →- Electric field and electric potential46 questions
- Electric field between parallel plates61 questions
- Radial electric fields12 questions
- Field lines and equipotentials23 questions
- Capacitance79 questions
- Energy stored by a capacitor50 questions
- Charge and discharge curves for capacitors61 questions
- Electric fields39 questions
- Electric field strength76 questions
- Force between two charges (Coulomb's law)59 questions
- Electric field due to a point charge35 questions
- Exponential discharge in a resistor-capacitor circuit60 questions
- Magnetic flux density, flux and flux linkage62 questions
- Force on charged particles in a magnetic field61 questions
- Force on current carrying conductors in a magnetic field53 questions
- Electromagnetic induction74 questions
- Lenz's law36 questions
- Faraday's law63 questions
- Alternating currents27 questions
- Root-mean-square (rms) values6 questions
Nuclear and Particle Physics
Practise →- Nucleon number and proton number45 questions
- The nuclear model of the atom65 questions
- Thermionic emission29 questions
- Particle accelerators and detectors107 questions
- Motion of a charged particle in a magnetic field78 questions
- Conservation laws in particle interactions66 questions
- The equation ΔE = c²Δm117 questions
- Units of mass and energy in particle physics90 questions
- Relativistic effects46 questions
- The standard quark-lepton model85 questions
- Particles and antiparticles82 questions
- Conservation of charge, baryon number and lepton number51 questions
- Particle equations56 questions
Working as a Physicist
Practise →- Base and derived quantities and SI units139 questions
- Practical skills and techniques263 questions
- Estimating physical quantities8 questions
- Limitations of physical measurement196 questions
- Communicating information and ideas6 questions
- Applications and implications of science20 questions
- Society's use of science5 questions
Space
Practise →Nuclear Radiation
Practise →- Nuclear binding energy49 questions
- Atomic mass unit (u)12 questions
- Nuclear fusion and fission60 questions
- Mechanism of nuclear fusion38 questions
- Background radiation31 questions
- Properties of nuclear radiations (alpha, beta, gamma)105 questions
- Nuclear equations65 questions
- Spontaneous and random nature of nuclear decay35 questions
- Radioactive decay equations and half-life78 questions
Materials
Practise →Waves and Particle Nature of Light
Practise →- Wave properties (amplitude, frequency, period, speed, wavelength)183 questions
- The wave equation v = fλ83 questions
- Longitudinal waves50 questions
- Transverse waves28 questions
- Graphs representing waves34 questions
- Wavefront, coherence, path difference, superposition, interference, phase93 questions
- Phase difference and path difference43 questions
- Standing/stationary waves85 questions
- Speed of a transverse wave on a string35 questions
- Intensity of radiation60 questions
- Refraction and Snell's law94 questions
- Critical angle and total internal reflection54 questions
- Converging and diverging lenses19 questions
- Ray diagrams for lenses4 questions
- Power of a lens7 questions
- Thin lenses in combination3 questions
- Real and virtual images11 questions
- The lens equation11 questions
- Magnification10 questions
- Plane polarisation64 questions
- Diffraction76 questions
- Diffraction grating31 questions
- Wave nature of electrons38 questions
- De Broglie equation30 questions
- Pulse-echo technique56 questions
- Wave model and photon model of electromagnetic radiation60 questions
- Photon energy E = hf109 questions
- The photoelectric effect83 questions
- Threshold frequency and work function63 questions
- The electronvolt (eV)66 questions
- Atomic line spectra67 questions
Thermodynamics
Practise →- Specific heat capacity and specific latent heat84 questions
- Internal energy34 questions
- Absolute zero16 questions
- The kinetic theory model70 questions
- The ideal gas equation pV = NkT77 questions
- Average kinetic energy of molecules67 questions
- Black body radiation29 questions
- Stefan-Boltzmann law50 questions
- Wien's law51 questions
Mechanics
Practise →- Equations for uniformly accelerated motion143 questions
- Power102 questions
- Efficiency75 questions
- Momentum31 questions
- Conservation of linear momentum47 questions
- Displacement-time, velocity-time and acceleration-time graphs118 questions
- Physical quantities from graphs132 questions
- Scalar and vector quantities112 questions
- Resolving a vector112 questions
- Resultant of coplanar vectors65 questions
- Projectile motion89 questions
- Free-body force diagrams131 questions
- Newton's laws of motion262 questions
- Gravitational field strength and weight179 questions
- Moment of a force28 questions
- Centre of gravity and principle of moments46 questions
- Work114 questions
- Kinetic energy110 questions
- Gravitational potential energy98 questions
- Conservation of energy95 questions
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