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CSCA subject preparation

CSCA Physics Preparation

Assess the physics knowledge system, scientific thinking and cross-disciplinary application needed for first-year science and engineering study.

Duration
60 minutes
Score
100
Format
single-answer multiple choice
Language
ZH / EN

Topics in the documented syllabus

Mechanics

  • displacement, velocity, acceleration, uniformly accelerated linear motion and free fall
  • Newton laws and applications
  • momentum, impulse and conservation of momentum
  • work, energy and conservation of mechanical energy
  • circular motion and universal gravitation
  • simple harmonic motion and mechanical waves

Electromagnetism

  • Coulomb law, electric field strength and electric potential
  • Ohm law and series-parallel DC circuits
  • magnetic flux density, Ampere force and Lorentz force
  • Faraday law and Lenz law

Thermal physics

  • molecular kinetic theory
  • ideal gas equation of state
  • first law of thermodynamics

Optics

  • laws of reflection and refraction
  • interference and diffraction

Modern physics

  • photoelectric effect
  • atomic structure
  • introductory nuclear physics

Reviewed sample questions