IBDP Physics Resources- Syllabus, Practice Questions and Notes
IBDP Physics new syllabus 2025
The new DP physics course will be launched in February 2023 for first teaching in August 2023. First assessment will take place in May 2025.
Exam Style Practice Questions, Notes and Past Paper for IBDP Physics 2025
Exam Style Practice Questions, Notes and Past Paper for DP Physics 2024
IB Physics SL& HL 2024 (For IBDP Physics Exam November 2024)
Changes in Syllabus for IBDP Physics First Assessment 2025
Assessment for New IBDP Physics , will only sit two external examinations.
Paper 1A includes multiple-choice questions on the syllabus.
paper 1B includes data-based questions that are syllabus related, addressing all themes.
Paper 2A includes data-based questions from unfamiliar contexts and short-answer questions.
Paper 2B includes extended-response questions that focus on holistic knowledge and understanding of a wide range of syllabus content, skills, concepts and understandings.
Other changes include the removal of the option topics (neurobiology and behaviour, biotechnology and informatics, ecology and conservation and human physiology).
From the current four options some of the content was incorporated into the course at either standard level or higher level.
Students are allowed to use Calculator even in Paper 1
Syllabus Framework for IBDP Physics First Assessment 2025
The physics curriculum is grouped into five broad organizing themes, each of which are subdivided into several topics.
- A. Space, time and motion
- B. The particulate nature of matter
- C. Wave behaviour
- D. Fields and
- E. Nuclear and quantum physics
Syllabus for IBDP Physics First Assessment 2025
A. Space, time and motion
- A.1 Kinematics SL Paper 1
- A.2 Forces and momentum SL Paper 1
- A.3 Work, energy and power SL Paper 1
- A.4 Rigid body mechanics HL Only
- A.5 Galilean and special relativity HL Only
B. The particulate nature of matter
- B.1 Thermal energy transfers SL Paper 1
- B.2 Greenhouse effect SL Paper 1
- B.3 Gas laws SL Paper 1
- B.4 Thermodynamics HL Only
- B.5 Current and circuits SL Paper 1
C. Wave behavior
- C.1 Simple harmonic motion SL Paper 1
- C.2 Wave model SL Paper 1
- C.3 Wave phenomena SL Paper 1
- C.4 Standing waves and resonance SL Paper 1
- C.5 Doppler effect SL Paper 1
D. Fields
- D.1 Gravitational fields SL Paper 1
- D.2 Electric and magnetic fields SL Paper 1
- D. 3 Motion in electromagnetic fields SL Paper 1
E. Nuclear and quantum physics
- E.1 Structure of the atom SL Paper 1
- E.2 Quantum physics HL Only
- E.3 Radioactive decay SL Paper 1
- E.4 Fission SL Paper 1
- E.5 Fusion and stars SL Paper 1