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Year 12 Physics
Free interactive HSC Physics notes for NSW Year 12: advanced mechanics, electromagnetism, the nature of light and from the universe to the atom, with simulations, worked examples and exam-style questions marked against HSC-style marking guidelines.
- 1Pick a module below.
- 2Read and explore: every topic has worked examples, diagrams and a simulation you can experiment with.
- 3Test yourself: a quiz, calculations, sorting tasks and HSC-style extended responses you mark against a marking guideline.
These notes follow the four Year 12 modules of the NSW Physics syllabus (Modules 5 to 8), all examined in the HSC. Symbols match the HSC Physics formulae and data sheet. Tap Mark as mastered after each topic to track your progress on this device. No account needed.
Modules
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5 Advanced Mechanics 11 sections
HSC Physics Module 5: projectile motion and its derivations, the projectile practical, uniform circular motion, banked tracks and vertical loops, work and torque in rotating systems, gravitational fields, satellites and orbits, Kepler's laws, gravitational potential energy and escape velocity.
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6 Electromagnetism 10 sections
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7 The Nature of Light 13 sections
HSC Physics Module 7: Maxwell's electromagnetic waves, measuring the speed of light, spectra and what starlight reveals, Newton's and Huygens' models, diffraction, interference and polarisation, black-body radiation and the photoelectric effect, and Einstein's special relativity from time dilation to E = mc².
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8 From the Universe to the Atom 13 sections
HSC Physics Module 8: how radiation became matter after the Big Bang, Hubble's expanding universe, stellar spectra and the H–R diagram, fusion in stars, the discovery of the electron and the nucleus, Bohr's atom and the hydrogen spectrum, matter waves, radioactive decay and binding energy, fission and fusion, and the Standard Model of particle physics.