This website provides resources for IB Physics SL/HL for first exams in 2025.
Below are some helpful resources. The pages on this website outline the course curriculum, including annotated data booklets, some exposition, and some practice problems.
The best way to learn IB Physics is InThinking: ask your teacher to get a subscription!
Other resources aligned with the 2025 revision of IB Physics:
Textbooks and associated online resources ($$):
DP Physics Study Guide by Tim Kirk (review guide $$)
IB Prepared: Physics 2023 Edition by David Homer and Maciej Pietka (review guide $$)
Chris Doner on YouTube (look for the playlists with the format "A.1 Kinematics")
Go Physics Go (IB physics worksheets and video solutions)
Sirius Revisions on YouTube (look for the physics playlists)
Andy Masley on YouTube (SL only; look for the playlists with the format "A.1 Kinematics")
Joe Cossette - Passionately Curious IB notes, review guide, etc
Revision Village (some free resources, but subscription is very $$)
Physics Study Town (some free resources, requires an account, most resources are paywalled $)
IB Physics Revision Notes at ibphysics.org (aligned with old curriculum, use the "Past Papers" conversions below)
Practice Exams:
Since there is a new curriculum starting with the May 2025 exams, we have a scarcity of past papers with which to practice. Here are some complete (mostly unofficial) exams:
May 2025 papers (3 time zones)
Tsokos (3 unofficial specimen papers)
ThinkIB has an original, unofficial specimen paper written by Tim Kirk (available to teacher subscribers only)
Revision Village has one free unofficial specimen paper
The online resources associated with your textbook may have additional unofficial specimen questions/papers
Using Past Papers and Resources:
There are lots of resources available that are aligned with the previous iteration of the IB physics curriculum. Likewise, past papers from May 2016 to November 2024 (which you might be able to access via a teacher, etc) can also be useful for practice. Here's what to look for:
Unit A.1 to A.5 -- look for Topic 2 (mechanics), Topic 6 (circular motion), Option B.1 (rigid body rotation), Option A (relativity)
Unit B.1 to B.4 -- look for Topic 3 (thermal physics), topic 8 (thermal energy transfer), Option B.2 (thermodynamics),Â
Unit B.5 -- look for Topic 5 (electric circuits)
Unit C.1 - C.5 -- look for Topic 4 (waves), Topic 9 (wave phenomena), Option B.4 (resonance)
Unit D.1 to D.4 -- look for Topic 6 (Newton's law of gravitation), Topic 5 (electric fields), Topic 10 (fields), Topic 11 (Induction)
Unit E.1 to E.5 -- look for Topic 7 (atomic, nuclear, particle physics), Topic 12 (quantum and nuclear physics), Option D (stars)