A-Level Physics - Roger Muncaster

Advantages: Exam Q's
Disadvantages: A bit on the thin side

...crossed over from GCSE's to A-level and you can't find any "Revise-in-a-week" books that were so popular for GCSE. That's probably because there aren't any because the publishers think were all hard working. Hmmm, how wrong could they be. Being pretty time deficient myself, I need revision that is short and concise and also conveys the subject sensibly (like the "revise-in-a-week"). This book is the A-levels answer to the popular series. Every topic ... Read review

Advantages: very thorough
Disadvantages: you may need a separate house to keep it in!

Im just about to take my Physics A2 level exam in a couple of weeks and this book is a god send. It is enormously thick but then it does include pretty much everything you would ever need to know for any A level physics sylabus. Im doin the Edexcell sylabus and it covers pretty much every topic including, magnetic fields, gravitational fields, electric fields, circular motion, capacitors, simple harmonic motion, rectilinear motion, waves, the universe, ...
...Paricle accelerator or detectors which i find quite suprising, because i would have thought that this is a very important part of Physics. However i have looked around in other text books and this book isnt alone in its leaving out of this topic, i dont understand why though!? If you are doing A or AS Physics, this book is a must have, its clear diagrams and in depth wording of all the key concepts of the Physics sylabus make it a fantastic reference ... Read review