Need an A Level Physics tutor in Islington or online?
A Level Physics asks students to move fluently between conceptual understanding and mathematical method — deriving relationships, applying them to unfamiliar contexts, and showing full working under exam conditions. Muhammad, who completed his own Physics PhD at Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory, works from your child’s own specification and exam board, building the physical intuition behind each topic rather than treating formulae as things to memorise — the physics differs little between boards, so that fluency transfers whichever one your school uses.
Lessons start with a short diagnostic conversation to find out where your child is now: which topics are secure, where marks are being lost to method rather than understanding, and what the target grade needs to look like. From there, sessions run one to one, two to one, or — where a group is running — alongside other A Level Physics students on Saturday evenings (Year 12).
What’s covered
- Measurements, uncertainties and practical skills
- Particles, quantum phenomena and radiation
- Waves and optics
- Mechanics and materials
- Electricity and circuits
- Further mechanics and thermal physics
- Fields — gravitational, electric and magnetic
- Nuclear physics and astrophysics/turning points options
Students typically start Year 12 having enjoyed GCSE Physics but not yet used to the mathematical weight A Level adds to it, and work towards exam-paper fluency: recognising which technique a question wants, showing working that picks up method marks, and moving between conceptual and quantitative questions without losing time re-orienting. By Year 13, most students reach a place where a full paper feels like a known shape rather than a series of surprises.
A Level Physics leans on maths more than most students expect — calculus, algebraic manipulation, graph work and careful unit handling all show up inside physics questions, not just in Maths lessons. Lessons build this fluency alongside the physics itself, so the maths never becomes the thing standing between a student and the mark.
