AS Physics data and formulae

For use in exams from the June 2016 Series onwards

DATA
FUNDAMENTAL CONSTANTS AND VALUES
Quantity Symbol Value Units
speed of light in vacuo 3.00  10 m s–
permeability of free space  4  10– H m–
permittivity of free space  8.85  10– F m–
magnitude of the charge of electron 1.60  10– C
the Planck constant 6.63  10– Js
gravitational constant 6.67  10– N m kg –
the Avogadro constant 6.02  10 mol–
molar gas constant 8.31 J K – mol–
the Boltzmann constant 1.38  10– J K–
the Stefan constant  5.67  10– W m– K –
the Wien constant  2.90  10– mK
electron rest mass
9.11  10– kg
(equivalent to 5.5 10–4 u)

electron charge/mass ratio 1.76  10 C kg –

proton rest mass

1.67 3  10– kg
(equivalent to 1.00728 u)

proton charge/mass ratio 9.58  10 C kg –

neutron rest mass

1.67 5  10– kg
(equivalent to 1.00867 u)
gravitational field strength 9.81 N kg –
acceleration due to gravity 9.81 m s–
atomic mass unit
u 1.661  10– kg
(1u is equivalent to 931.3 MeV)

ASTRONOMICAL DATA GEOMETRICAL EQUATIONS

Body Mass/kg Mean radius/m arc length = r
Sun 1.99 10 6.96 10 circumference of circle = 2r
Earth 5.98 10 6.37 10 area of circle = r2
surface area of cylinder = 2rh
area of sphere = 4r2
4
volume of sphere = r3
3

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Particle Physics Waves
Class Name Symbol Rest energy/MeV 1
wave speed period
photon photon  0
0 first 1
lepton neutrino ve
harmonic 2
v 0
fringe  diffraction
electron e 0.510999 spacing grating
sin

muon  105.659 refractive index of a substance s,


mesons  meson  139.576
for two different substances of refractive indices n1 and n2,
0
 134.972 law of refraction sin sin

K meson K 493.821 critical angle sin for
0
K 497.762
baryons proton p 938.257 Mechanics
neutron n 939.551 moments moment
velocity and ∆ ∆
Properties of quarks acceleration ∆ ∆
antiquarks have opposite signs
equations of
Baryon motion 2
Type Charge Strangeness
number
2
2
2 1
u + e + 0 force
3 3
∆
1 1 force
d − e + 0 ∆
3 3
impulse Δ Δ
1 1 work, energy cos
s − e + 1
3 3 and power
1
Δ Δ
2
Properties of Leptons ∆
,
∆
Lepton number
Particles: e ,  ;  ,  +1
Antiparticles: e ,  ,  ,  1 Materials

Protons and energy levels density Hooke’s law

photon energy /
tensile stress =
photoelectricity  Young modulus
∆
energy levels – tensile strain =

de Broglie Wavelength energy stored Δ

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Electricity
∆
current and pd
∆

resistivity

resistors in series …

resistors in parallel = ⋯

power

emf

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