The most comprehensive support for the 2023 DP Physics specification

Featuring a wealth of engaging content, this concept-based Course Book has been developed in cooperation with the IB to provide the most comprehensive support for the DP Physics specification, for first teaching from September 2023. It is packed full of questions, clear explanations and worked examples, plus extensive assessment preparation support.

Use this print Course Book alongside the digital course on Oxford's Kerboodle platform for the best teaching and learning experience. Oxford's DP Science offer brings together the IB curriculum and future-facing functionality, enabling success in DP and beyond.

Features

• Provide comprehensive coverage of all topics, fully aligned to the 2023 subject guide for Physics and structured according to the syllabus
• Build your lessons on sound foundations as the three core concepts of energy, forces and particles are interwoven throughout
• Enhance your teaching by easily integrating subject knowledge, the Nature of Science and Theory of Knowledge
• Encourage inquiry and support students to develop conceptual understanding with guiding and linking questions included in each chapter
• Focus on knowledge and skills with high quality content created by experienced IB authors, examiners and teachers
• Build metacognitive and subject-specific skills with not only a dedicated skills chapter and but also the opportunity to regularly practice throughout
• Reinforce learning with a wealth of questions, clear explanations and worked examples
• Prepare for assessment with exam-style questions at the end of each topic, and comprehension questions throughout, plus dedicated support for the Internal Assessment

Suitable for: IB Diploma Physics students - SL and HL

Contents
A Space, time and motion
A.1 Kinematics
A.2 Forces and momentum
A.3 Work, energy and power
A.4 Rigid body mechanics
A.5 Galilean and special relativity
End-of-theme questions
B The particulate nature of matter
B.1 Thermal energy transfers
B.2 Greenhouse effect
B.3 Gas laws
B.4 Thermodynamics
B.5 Current and circuits
End-of-theme questions
Tools for physics
Mathematical tools for physics
Experimental tools for physics
Data analysis and modelling physics
C Wave behaviour
C.1 Simple harmonic motion
C.2 Wave model
C.3 Wave phenomena
C.4 Standing waves and resonance
C.5 Doppler effect
End-of-theme questions
D Fields
D.1 Gravitational fields
D.2 Electric and magnetic fields
D.3 Motion in electromagnetic fields
D.4 Induction
End-of-theme questions
E Nuclear and quantum physics
E.1 Structure of the atom
E.2 Quantum physics
E.3 Radioactive decay
E.4 Fission
E.5 Fusion and stars
End-of-theme questions
Extended-response questions
The inquiry process and internal assessment (IA)
Index

Author David Homer

Author William Heathcote

Author Maciej Pietka

C.1 Simple harmonic motion