Optics — Physics
Revise Optics for Physics. Worked examples, common mistakes and exam-style practice below.
Topic explanation
Optics is part of Paper 1 — Particles, Waves & Electricity in Physics. Understanding the key ideas and methods here will help you tackle both short questions and longer exam-style problems. Use the tutor and step-by-step explainer below to build your understanding, then practise with the question sets linked at the bottom.
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Step-by-step method
Step-by-step explanation
4 steps · Worked method for Optics
Understand the problem
Read the question carefully and identify what you are being asked to find. Write down all known values.
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