IB Physics flashcards
3 decks · 218 cards · built into Willys · free samples below
Written against: IB Diploma Programme IB Physics subject guide for first assessment 2025 (themes A–E); SL and HL in one deck, HL-only cards under subtopic tags starting HL. Updated 2026-10-10.
What's in it
Every deck follows the course outline, with tags you can study or suspend topic by topic. Open a deck to study its free sample right here.
Learn · 2 decks · 158 cards
Concepts, mechanisms and the questions a course or exam asks about them.
Practice · 1 deck · 60 questions
Multiple-choice practice questions, one best answer each, with the reasoning.
Study guide
Topics covered
The decks follow the order of the course outline. Numbers are cards per topic.
- Space Time and Motion 56
- Kinematics 9
- Forces and Momentum 15
- Work Energy and Power 11
- HL Rigid-Body Mechanics 10
- HL Relativity 11
- Particulate Nature of Matter 49
- Thermal Energy Transfers 11
- Greenhouse Effect 8
- Gas Laws 9
- HL Thermodynamics 10
- Current and Circuits 11
- Wave Behaviour 37
- Simple Harmonic Motion 6
- Wave Model and Wave Phenomena 10
- Standing Waves and Resonance 8
- Doppler Effect 5
- HL Wave Behaviour 8
- Fields 36
- Gravitational Fields 6
- Electric and Magnetic Fields 8
- Motion in Electromagnetic Fields 7
- HL Potentials and Orbital Energy 8
- HL Induction 7
- Nuclear and Quantum Physics 40
- Structure of the Atom 6
- HL Quantum Physics and Atomic Models 8
- Radioactive Decay 9
- HL Decay Constant and Activity 5
- Fission Fusion and Stars 12
A study plan
- 8 new cards a day covers everything in a month, leaving the last weeks for review.
- 5 new cards a day covers everything in two months, leaving the last weeks for review.
Willys schedules reviews for you (FSRS spaced repetition), so the daily number above is only for new cards; reviews of what you have learned come back on their own. Study a topic's cards right after you meet it in class, suspend topics you have not reached yet, and use the app's quiz mode in the final two weeks.
How to get these decks
- Install Willys on your iPhone, iPad or Mac — App Store. 14-day free trial, then $14.99 a year.
- In Willys, tap Exam Library at the top of your Decks (or Browse Exam Library… under the + button), find the exam on its shelf or by search, tick it and tap Add.
- Study. The exam comes in as its own collapsible folder, every card scheduled by FSRS spaced repetition. Nothing you already have is changed.
Every deck is built into Willys
All 3 IB Physics decks (218 cards), with FSRS spaced repetition, quizzes and mock tests, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. 14-day free trial, then $14.99 a year.
In Willys, tap Exam Library at the top of your Decks (or Browse Exam Library… under the + button), find the exam on its shelf or by search, tick it and tap Add.
About these cards
Review status: Second-reader reviewed, with corrections applied.
Checked against:
- IB Diploma Programme subject guide (topic outline only; no text copied): Physics guide for first assessment 2025, themes A and B.
- OpenStax College Physics 2e, OpenStax University Physics Volumes 1–3 and OpenStax Chemistry 2e, consulted as references; no text copied.
- Also checked against the IPCC Working Group I contributions to the Fifth Assessment Report (2013) and the Sixth Assessment Report (2021; CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), and the CODATA 2022 recommended values of the fundamental physical constants (reference only; no text copied).
- IB Diploma Programme subject guide (topic outline only; no text copied): Physics guide for first assessment 2025, themes C, D and E.
- OpenStax College Physics 2e, OpenStax University Physics Volumes 1–3 and OpenStax Astronomy 2e, consulted as references; no text copied.
- IB Diploma Programme subject guide (topic outline only; no text copied): Physics guide for first assessment 2025, themes A–E.
- Every numerical answer and main distractor was checked by script, using the constants stated in each question.
- Constants and particle masses cross-checked against the CODATA 2022 recommended values of the fundamental physical constants, published by NIST (reference only).
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