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Why You Should Study IGCSE Physics!

Do you wish to know the “how” and “why” behind the workings of the things around you?
Are you excited by the natural phenomena of daily experience?

gravity
light
stars
storms
earthquakes

and modern devices such as:

computers
lasers
rockets

Would you like to feel the joy:

of discovery
of contributing to the world’s knowledge
of performing new experiments
of establishing fundamental theories?

If so,then maybe IGCSE Physics is for you!

What is the importance of Physics?

Physics is so basic a subject that there is scarcely a single area of modern life which is not affected by Physics.

Physicists invented the transistor,which has led to the development of integrated circuits and computers.They invented nuclear energy and discovered superconductivity.They are the creators of Relativity Theory and Quantum Mechanics.Their theories explain gravitation, nuclear reactions, chemical reactions,energy transfers, light and radiation,the forms of matter, and all the processes and interactions that we witness every day.Physical theories are the basis of present scientific knowledge,and physicists are the scientists that develop physical theory.

What topics are covered in IGCSE Physics?

General Physics (Mechanics)
Thermal Physics
Waves, including Light and Sound
Electricity
Magnetism
Electronics
Atomic Physics

You will also be exposed to a variety of practical work in the form of experiments,to complement the theoretical work covered in class.

What career options will I have?

Physicists end up in all sorts of interesting jobs and are virtually never unemployed, because of their broad training and adaptability.In particular they are needed at the start of new technologies or in particularly challenging projects such as space missions, remote explorations, and failure assessment.

As a working physicist you may find yourself: trying to predict the stock market on Wall Street,testing satellites for space missions, developing new materials for industry,developing new electronic devices and components, doing medical physics in a hospital, teaching the next generation of physicists in a high school,trying to predict the next major earthquake to hit San Francisco or Japan,developing flight simulation software,optimizing industrial manufacturing or transformation processes,developing a new measurement instrument, performing materials testing and characterization for special applications,launching a new software company or product,performing urban planning and optimization, etc.

There is a great shortage of physicists in South Africa and Africa as a whole, and this situation will become even more acute in the next decade.