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SQA Higher Physics past-paper questions grouped by official syllabus topic. Free archive, no signup. Want step-by-step worked solutions? See Physics Topical Solved.

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30 topics covered, mapped to the official SQA 2026 syllabus.

Topic 1

Our dynamic Universe

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Topic 2

Motion — equations and graphs

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Topic 3

Calculation of distance, displacement, speed, velocity, and acceleration from

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Topic 4

Forces, energy and power

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Topic 5

Resolution of a vector into two perpendicular components.

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Topic 6

Ew  Fd , or W  Fd

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Topic 7

EP  mgh

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Topic 8

Ek  mv 2

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Topic 9

Collisions, explosions, and impulse

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Topic 10

Interpretation of force-time graphs involving interacting objects.

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Topic 11

Ft  mv  mu

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Topic 12

Gravitation

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Topic 13

Knowledge that satellites are in free fall around a planet/star.

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Topic 14

Special relativity

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Topic 15

Universe.

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Topic 16

Particles and waves

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Topic 17

Forces on charged particles

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Topic 18

Ek  12 mv 2

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Topic 19

Knowledge that a moving charge produces a magnetic field.

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Topic 20

Knowledge that hadrons are composite particles made of quarks.

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Topic 21

Knowledge that baryons are made of three quarks.

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Topic 22

Knowledge that mesons are made of quark–antiquark pairs.

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Topic 23

Nuclear reactions

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Topic 24

Inverse square law

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Topic 25

I1d12  I 2 d 22

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Topic 26

Wave-particle duality

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Topic 27

Ek  hf  hf 0

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Topic 28

Interference

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Topic 29

Knowledge that coherent waves have a constant phase relationship.

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Topic 30

Spectra

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