John Vagabond's Physics and Chemistry Blog

Welcome and thanks for dropping by. There’s a lot of help for you here if you’re in Grades 8 through 12 (MYP and IB) or Year 9 through 13, (IG to A level) doing physics, chemistry or math. The chemistry stuff is mostly for IGCSE. The site has been kept as uncluttered as possible so navigation is easy. You’ll find syllabuses, notes, questions, interesting facts in these pages and you can navigate either by using “Type a keyword” (the box is found on the right hand side)  or by using the Categories tab and scrolling to see what’s been posted. It’s not designed to be exhaustive, certainly no substitute for a good textbook, just enough to get your critical thinking going. I’ve also included a few speculative ideas which are far beyond the syllabus, just to fire your imagination.

One very important thing. If you haven’t got your copy of the syllabus or specification (the stuff you need to know), you’re dead before you start. Get a copy and use it as a working document.

Google your own Board. Check you’re doing the right course number.

Quite a bit of the content is in small chunks, which might be quite familiar to you if you’re really good at physics. In which case, test your skills by looking at a few harder problems from the British Physics Olympiad.

Use the comments box below either to ask a question, or to make helpful suggestions. It pings back to my email address so you’ll get a response within hours.

If you’d like me to write about a particular topic, leave a comment.

There is no charge for using the resources here, but if you do copy from these pages, please attribute appropriately, thanks. Many of the images are in the public domain or taken from my own resources. If you think an image belonging to you has been used in contravention of copyright, please let me know.

Finally, over time, web pages get deleted or moved. If you find that a link no longer works, please drop me a note and tell me. Thanks.