Product Description

Produced in partnership with OCR for the 2008 OCR A Level Physics A specification, thisStudent Book offers accessible and engaging material, and focus on the integration of How Science Works to help students understand the underlying principles of science.

• Structured in line with the OCR specificationwith exciting content presented as double page spreads to help students easily assimilate and locate information.

• Plenty of worked examples and exam-style questionsdemonstrate how to approach complex questions.

• Practice exam questions, provided at the end of each module, aid exam preparation.

• Contains learning objectives within the spreads, taken from the specification, as well as questions to test understanding and knowledge.

• FREE Exam Café CD-ROM, containing an array of student-friendly study, revision and exam preparation tools to support students and enable them to prepare thoroughly for their exams.

• Stretch and Challengesections throughout the book support this part of the specification.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #85792 in Books
• Published on: 2008-12-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 280 pages

Customer Reviews

OCR A Physics textbook by Heinemann
I have found Heinemann textbooks for the new physics OCR A course a valuable resource; the exam cafe CD in the back is particularly useful for revision and for those learning outside a classroom environment who need a little help directing and reviewing their studies; being in this situation myself I found the book lacked substance as a single resource and a little background reading was required although I'm guessing this wouldn't be so much of an issue inside the classroom. Recommended for those taking the course, but another resource might be more suitable for those on other courses or studying physics for non-academic purposes.

Other books in the series include:
OCR AS Physics Student Book and Exam Cafe CD-ROM , OCR AS Revise Physics - New Edition , OCR Revise A2 Physics A (OCR A2 Revision Guides)

The revision guides work well with the textbook but don't add anything and seem to be pretty much the same just broken down a little and with less pictures. Probably unnecessary for those with good notes or with other course specific revision guides, but a good revision aid if notes have been lost/are confusing or you just want a little help revising.
The A2 course follows the AS course and I would recommend buying the AS textbook as well if you do not already own one as knowledge acquired at AS is still needed on the AS course and being able to refer to the previous textbook makes the transition from AS to A2 much smoother.

From a teachers point of view
Overall my students prefer the layout of this book to the 'Official' book from Cambridge University Press by Chadha. A bit 'lighter' more approachable and with some really helpful stuff in the 'ExamCafe' on the disc.