牛津大学PAT考纲、题型介绍申请物理、工程、材料的专业学员必读-唯寻国际教育

PAT是牛津大学物理、工程专业的入学笔试之一，笔试通不过是进不到牛津的面试环节的，更不用说拿了。所以本文来为大家介绍一下牛津大学PAT的考纲，未来目标牛津的小伙伴可以根据考试内容慢慢复习起来啦。

（点击阅读G5申请必读 | STEP, MAT,PAT, TSA扫盲）

牛津大学PAT考纲、题型介绍申请物理、工程、材料的专业学员必读内容图片_1

牛津大学PAT考试简介

AT即The Physics Aptitude Test ，牛津大学考试中心与英国入学考试服务中心合作开设的物理能力测试，专门为申请牛津物理、工程相关专业的学员准备，同样也是帝国理工物理专业发放的重要依据。

牛津大学PAT考试是一项开放性的考试，即使不申请这些专业也可以参加，既有利于自己的申请，也能体现出自己的学术实力。PAT的考试时长共2小时，总分为100分，有选择题和简答题两种题型。

申请牛津大学以下专业需要参PAT考试——

工程科学 Engineering Sciences

材料科学 Materials Science

物理 Physics

物理和哲学 Physics and Philosophy

牛津大学PAT考试时间

（以2020年PAT考试为例）

报名截止时间：2020.9.1~10.15

考试时间：2020.11.4

牛津大学PAT考纲

PAT syllabus

revised 24 February 2014

Syllabus for Part A of the aptitude test (mathematics for physics)

Elementary mathematics: knowledge of elementary mathematics, in particular topics in arithmetic, geometry including coordinate geometry, and probability, will be assumed.

Algebra: properties of polynomials, including the solution of quadratics. Graph sketching and transformations of variables. Inequalities and their solution. Elementary trigonometry including relationships between sin, cos and tan (sum and difference formulae will be stated if required). Properties of logarithms and exponentials. Arithmetic and geometric progressions and the binomial expansion.

Calculus: differentiation and integration of polynomials including fractional and negative powers. Differentiation as finding the slope of a curve, and the location of maxima, minima and points of inflection. Integration as the reverse of differentiation and as finding the area under a curve. Simplifying integrals by symmetry arguments.

Physics: knowledge of elementary physics will be assumed. Questions may require the manipulation of mathematical expressions in a physical context.

If there are parts of the syllabus which you think won't be covered at school by the time of the PAT, we expect you to work on them by yourself. Your teachers might be able to advise you.

Syllabus for Part B of the aptitude test (physics)

Mechanics: distance, velocity, speed, acceleration, and the relationships between them. Interpretation of graphs. Response to forces; Newton's laws of motion; weight and mass; addition of forces; circular motion. Friction, air resistance, and terminal velocity. Levers, pulleys and other elementary machines. Springs and Hooke's law. Kinetic and potential energy and their inter-conversion; other forms of energy; conservation of energy and momentum; power and work.

Waves and optics: longitudinal and transverse waves; amplitude, frequency, period, wavelength and speed, and the relationships between them. Basic properties of the electromagnetic spectrum. Reflection at plane mirrors. Refraction and elementary properties of prisms and optical fibres including total internal reflection. Elementary understanding of interference and diffraction.

Electricity and magnetism: current, voltage (potential difference), charge, resistance; relationships between them and links to energy and power. Elementary circuits including batteries, wires, resistors, filament lamps, diodes, capacitors, light dependent resistors and thermistors; series and parallel circuits. Elementary electrostatic forces and magnetism; electromagnets, motors and generators. Current as a flow of electrons; thermionic emission and energy of accelerated electron beams.

Natural world: atomic structure. Structure of the solar system. Phases of the moon and eclipses. Elementary treatment of circular orbits under gravity including orbital speed, radius, period, centripetal acceleration, and gravitational centripetal force. Satellites; geostationary and polar orbits.

Mathematics: knowledge of elementary mathematics will be assumed. Questions may require the manipulation of mathematical expressions in a physical context.

Problem solving: problems may be set which require problem solving based on information provided rather than knowledge about a topic.

If there are parts of the syllabus which you think won't be covered at school by the time of the PAT, we expect you to work on them by yourself. Your teachers might be able to advise you.

Calculators and tables

No calculators or tables may be used. Candidates may be expected to perform standard arithmetical operations by hand, including multiplication and division, simple powers and roots, and the manipulation of fractions. Answers in Part A should be given exactly unless indicated otherwise. Numeric answers in Part B should be calculated to 2 significant figures unless indicated otherwise. Knowledge of the values of sin, cos and tan for angles of 0, 30, 45, 60 and 90 degrees (and angles offset from these by multiples of 90 degrees) may be assumed.

牛津大学PAT考试介绍就到这里。作为牛津的筛选考试，PAT的难度肯定是超过课本内容的，何况这类笔试的难度还在于要求你在兼顾申请与考试的情况下复习。如果你觉得很难面面俱到，点击预约试听【唯寻牛剑笔试车】，，高效提升笔试实力，精研真题解析，考前押题模考，帮助学员精准把握考试动向，牛剑导师自然更懂牛剑。

牛津大学PAT考纲、题型介绍申请物理、工程、材料的专业学员必读内容图片_2