The course

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  The SACE examination (30% of the subject): 130 minutes and 120 marks in two question booklets of about 65 minutes each, with a formula sheet and an approved calculator. It has no multiple-choice questions; the timed checks are the course's own four-option format.

  Free: A tour of the physics course
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  Topic 1: Motion and relativity

  7 of the 20 questions on each timed check

  Free: Projectiles, air resistance and terminal velocityMomentum in two dimensions and spacecraft propulsionCircular motion, banked curves and satellitesTime dilation, length contraction and relativistic momentum88 questions
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  Topic 2: Electricity and magnetism

  7 of the 20 questions on each timed check

  Electric fields and charged particles in themMagnetic fields and the forces on currentsCharged particles in magnetic fields and the cyclotronFree: Flux, induced emf, generators and transformers85 questions
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  Topic 3: Light and atoms

  6 of the 20 questions on each timed check

  Interference, two slits and diffraction gratingsPhotons, the photoelectric effect, X-rays and matter wavesSpectra, energy levels and lasersQuarks, leptons and gauge bosons66 questions