WAEC Physics syllabus

The WAEC Physics syllabus has 20 examinable topics, listed in full below. This is the same breakdown Handbook uses to track which topics you have mastered and which are still costing you marks.

All 20 topics on the WAEC Physics syllabus

1. 01(1) Electrostatics (a) Production of electric charges (b) Types of distribution of charges (c) Storage of charges (d) Electric lines of force (e) Electric force between point charges: Coulomb’s law (f) Concepts of electric field, electric field intensity... (g) Capacitance
2. 02(2) Current electricity (a) Production of electric current... (b) Potential difference... (c) Electric circuit (d) Electric conduction... (e) Electric energy and power (f) Shunt and multiplier (g) Resistivity and Conductivity (h) Measurement of electric current...
3. 03(a) Concept of fields: Gravitational, electric and Magnetic
4. 04(a) Concept of scalars as physical quantities with magnitude and no direction
5. 05(a) Concept of work as a measure of energy transfer
6. 06(a) Fundamental quantities and units
7. 07(a) Sources of light
8. 08(a) Sources of sound
9. 09(a) Temperature and its measurement
10. 10(a) Types of motion: Random, rectilinear, translational, Rotational, circular, orbital, spin, Oscillatory
11. 11(b) Concept of vectors as physical quantities with both magnitude and direction
12. 12(b) Derived quantities and units
13. 13(b) Radioactivity – Natural and artificial
14. 14(b) Rectilinear propagation of light
15. 15(b) Second Law: Force, acceleration, momentum and impulse
16. 16(c) Equilibrium of bodies (i) Archimedes’ principle (ii) Law of flotation
17. 17(c) Reflection of light at plane surface: plane mirror
18. 18(f) Concept of power as time rate of doing work
19. 19Structure of the atom
20. 20Structure of the nucleus