Electricity and Thermal Physics

Part 1 Electricity: what happens in an electric circuit?; charge and current; current in series circuits; Kirchhoff's first law; controlling current; voltage; electrical power and energy calculations; electrical height; Kirchhoff's second law; resistance; change of resistance; how fast does charge move?; resistivity; the potential divider; controlling voltage; voltage-current characteristics; internal resistance. Part 2 Thermal physics: pressure and temperature; macroscopic gas properties; the ideal gas equation; modelling the behaviour of a gas; kinetic theory of an ideal gas; internal energy; steady state and thermal equilibrium; specific heat capacity; specific latent heat; heating and working; the first law of thermodynamics; heat engines and heat pumps. Part 3 Option topics: astrophysics; solid materials; nuclear and particle physics; medical physics.