A-Level Physics & Chemistry
The bit where you can finally picture what's happening.
Both subjects ask you to hold a model in your head, whether a field, an orbital or a reaction pathway, and most revision material describes it in words. Lumi draws it, animates the change, and lets you ask what happens if you alter one variable.
Lumi teaches A-Level Physics and Chemistry by drawing the models, including fields, orbitals, reaction pathways and energy profiles, on an interactive whiteboard you can question as it builds.
Checked against the specification: AQA GCSE Physics Higher, AQA GCSE Chemistry Higher. On every other board Lumi teaches the same way — the packs are the part verified line by line.
What Lumi covers in Physics & Chemistry.
Physics: core
- Mechanics, momentum and energy
- Materials, stress, strain and the Young modulus
- Waves, superposition and standing waves
- Electricity, circuits and internal resistance
- Quantum phenomena and the photoelectric effect
Physics: further
- Gravitational, electric and magnetic fields
- Simple harmonic motion and resonance
- Thermal physics and gas laws
- Nuclear decay, half-life and binding energy
- Particle physics and conservation rules
Chemistry: physical
- Atomic structure and ionisation energies
- Bonding, shapes of molecules and intermolecular forces
- Energetics, Hess's law and Born–Haber cycles
- Kinetics, rate equations and orders of reaction
- Equilibria, Kc, Kp and Le Chatelier
- Electrode potentials and electrochemical cells
Chemistry: organic and inorganic
- Reaction mechanisms and curly arrows
- Isomerism, including optical isomerism
- Aromatic chemistry, amines and polymers
- Periodicity and the transition metals
- NMR, mass spectrometry and infrared spectroscopy
Questions about Physics & Chemistry.
Yes. Curly arrows are drawn one at a time so you can see where each pair of electrons goes, and you can ask why the arrow starts where it does.
Lumi will talk through the method, the variables and the common sources of error for each required practical, and quiz you on what examiners look for.
Yes. Rearranging, logs, graph gradients and uncertainties are all covered in the context of the physics rather than separately.
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