P h y s i c s is the most fundamental and exact of the sciences.  It explores the real world, using mathematics to explain what we see around us.  It delves into forces and motion – how can it be that the Moon being pulled towards Earth by our gravity, but that it never falls?

   It explores wave motion, from waves that carry surfers to the beach right through to the invisible x-rays.  How can it be that radio waves can go through a brick wall, but not penetrate a thin sheet of aluminium foil?

   Physics gets a buzz out of electromagnetism, the force the holds papers to the fridge, makes light bulbs glow, sends a signal to your transistor radio, and makes lightening crack across the sky.  How can it be that we can steer an invisible beam onto different parts of the TV screen, and make them glow the right colour?

   Physics peers into the distant past, using astronomy to explore the depths of history, and discover how the universe was formed.

   Physics explodes into the realm of atomic and nuclear physics.  The last 100 years have changed the way we live – Rutherford probed the nucleus of the atom, leading the nuclear revolution, and opening the flood gates to a whole new area of knowledge.