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  • Subject: Physics
  • AS: AS90182
  • Level: 1
  • Credits: 5
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Physics 1.3 Demonstrate understanding of wave and light behaviour

Achievement criteria

The complexity of the situation and problem-solving process will determine the level of your achievement. A physics problem involves a process(es) to find a physical quantity. A process involves:

  • recognising the relevant concept or principle
  • selecting the method (for example formula, graph, diagram, logical deduction)
  • selecting the relevant information.

Achievement

  • Identify or describe single aspects of phenomena, concepts, or principles.
  • Solve straightforward problems. Your answer will involve a single process. The relevant concept or principle will be clear, the method will be straightforward (a formula will need no more than a simple rearrangement), and the information will be directly usable.

Achievement with Merit

  • Give descriptions or explanations in terms of phenomena, concepts, principles, and/or relationships.
  • You must give reasons for your answers.
  • Solve problems in which the relevant concept or principle may not be immediately obvious, the method may involve the use of a complex formula or rearrangement, or the information may not be directly usable or immediately obvious.

Achievement with Excellence

  • Give explanations that show an in-depth understanding in terms of phenomena, concepts, principles, and/or relationships.
  • Your answers must be focused and have minimal irrelevancies.
  • Solve complex problems that will typically involve more than one process. The recognition of two different concepts must be involved.

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