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Practise, simulate and explore with interactive tools aligned to AQA and OCR GCSE and A Level Physics specifications. For structured revision, start with A Level Physics revision, MCQ practice, or problem-solving practice.
Explore a physics lab, play a game or build a free quiz.
Build motion experiments with trolleys, slopes and a 2D collision table. Measure with light gates, explore forces and momentum, and compare recorded runs.
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Build balancing beams and hanging space mobiles, pull them into motion, and solve six untimed moments and equilibrium challenges.
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Answer physics questions to earn control, then balance laboratory objects to build the tallest tower you can.
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Build a free multiple-choice quiz by course and topic for AQA GCSE Physics, AQA A-level Physics or OCR A A-level Physics.
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Practise OCR A Level Physics multiple-choice questions by topic, including forces, electricity, waves, quantum physics, fields, nuclear physics and medical physics. Use timed mode for retrieval practice and exam preparation.
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Test your knowledge of key physics definitions with an interactive quiz covering all OCR A Level Physics topics.
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Explore projectile motion with an interactive simulation. Adjust launch angle, velocity and height to see trajectories in real time.
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Follow one load up a fixed-height ramp at constant speed while an object-based model accounts for motor work, gravitational potential energy and frictional heating.
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Watch individual electron-transfer events as a capacitor charges and discharges, then open focused live graphs of charge, potential difference and current.
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Connect gravitational and electric field graphs with potential gradients, signed areas and energy transfer in a guided graph lab.
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Build custom electric fields with charges, plates, probes, rulers and particle detectors. Map potential, record graphs and investigate Millikan’s oil-drop experiment.
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Predict how a magnetic field bends a moving charged particle, then explore what determines the radius of its circular path.
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See when changing magnetic flux linkage induces an emf, use Lenz’s law to predict its direction, and connect a rotating coil to the generator equations.
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Build step-up and step-down transformers, compare primary and secondary oscilloscope traces, test AC against DC and investigate load, current, power and efficiency.
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Launch a satellite too slowly, at circular-orbit speed, into an ellipse or at escape speed and watch the inverse-square gravitational field determine its path.
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Explore simple harmonic motion with an interactive A Level physics simulator. Compare a mass-spring system and pendulum, then investigate damping, energy and resonance.
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Build your own gas-law investigation in Free Lab. Drag a piston, lock variables, compare molecular speeds, record graphs and export results, with guided AQA and OCR A Level experiments and challenges.
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Explore stellar spectra, the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram, parallax, telescope resolution, redshift and Hubble's law in one connected A Level Physics observatory.
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Build ripple-tank experiments, add apparatus and measure wavefronts while investigating wave speed, reflection, refraction, diffraction and interference.
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Watch photoelectrons emerge with different energies, then use a reversible electric field to accelerate, slow and stop them.
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Observe Brownian motion, reveal the molecular model, compare temperature, viscosity and tracer size, then test Einstein's diffusion prediction with live mean-square-displacement data.
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Reconstruct particle events or build atoms from protons, neutrons and electrons using evaluated isotope stability, half-life and decay data for AQA, OCR A, GCSE and A Level.
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