AQA A-level Physics: All 12 Required Practicals

Every AQA A-level Physics required practical, explained simply and ready to print.

Each practical has:

• clear notes and labelled diagrams
• “In plain English” boxes that explain the hard ideas in everyday words
• what to change, what to measure and what to keep the same
• sample results to work with
• how to find uncertainties, both absolute and percentage
• how to draw the graph and use the gradient
• exam-style questions that get harder as you go

The answers are in a separate booklet, with completed results, graphs and full mark schemes.

Every practical is labelled AS (Year 1) or A level only (Year 2), so you know exactly what you need. Each one starts on a new page, so you can print just the one you need.

The 12 practicals:

1. Stationary waves on a string
2. Interference (double slit and diffraction grating)
3. Determining g by free fall
4. Young modulus of a wire
5. Resistivity of a wire
6. EMF and internal resistance
7. Simple harmonic motion (pendulum and spring)
8. Gas laws (Boyle’s law and Charles’s law)
9. Charging and discharging a capacitor
10. Force on a current-carrying wire
11. Flux linkage and a search coil
12. Inverse square law for gamma radiation

Great for revising for Paper 3, catching up on a missed practical, or as ready-made lessons for teachers. Printable in black and white.

Try it free first: download Required Practical 3 (Determining g by free fall) with its answers.

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