IB Physics courses

IB Physics (first exams 2025) is organised into five themes: space, time and motion; the particulate nature of matter; wave behaviour; fields; and nuclear and quantum physics. Standard Level covers 150 teaching hours, Higher Level 240. HL adds five subtopics of its own — rigid body mechanics, Galilean and special relativity, thermodynamics, induction and quantum physics — plus deeper material in several others. Assessment is two written papers — Paper 1 (multiple choice plus data-based questions) and Paper 2 (short and extended response) — and an internal assessment, the scientific investigation, worth 20%.

Offered at Standard and Higher Level; each course below says which.