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The terms in bold link to topics in the AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC and CCEA A-level specifications, as well as the IB, Pre-U and SQA exam specifications.
Computers are increasingly being used as tools in many areas of physics. At A-level you are likely to use data loggers with a variety of sensors to collect data, and software to process those data. Real-world applications, such as magnetic resonance scanners, utilise far greater computing power to process data, and computer simulations of particle collisions require supercomputers.
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