AQA GCSE Physics Paper 1 Content

Contents

Energy

Energy changes in a system, and in the ways energy is stored before and after such changes

Systems

• Open System
• Closed System
• Closed Isolated System

Energy Store

• Thermal Energy Store
• Elastic Potential Energy Store
• Chemical Potential Energy Store
• Kinetic Energy Store
• Magnetic Potential Energy Store
• Electrostatic Potential Energy Store
• Nuclear Potential Energy Store
• Gravitational Potential Energy Store
• Internal Energy Store
• Vibrational Energy Store

Calculating Energy Stores

• Calculating Kinetic Energy
• Calculating Gravitational Potential Energy
• Calculating Elastic Potential Energy
• Calculating Thermal Energy

Energy Transfers

• Mechanical
  • Work Done by a Force
• Electrical Energy Transfer
  • Work Done by Electrical Current
• Energy Transfer by Radiation
• Energy Transfer by Heating

GCSE Physics Required Practical: Investigating Thermal Insulators

Power Ratings of Electrical Appliances

• Power
• Energy Transfers in Electrical Appliances

Conservation, dissipation and national and global energy sources

• Conservation of Energy
  • Closed Isolated System
• Total Energy
• Useful Energy
• Wasted Energy
• Dissipated Energy

Improving Energy Transfers

• Lubrication
• Thermal Insulator
• Energy Efficiency
• Power Efficiency

Energy Resources

• Non-renewable Energy Resource
  • Coal Power
  • Oil Power
  • Gas Power
  • Nuclear Power
• Renewable Energy Resource
  • Biofuel
  • Geothermal
  • Hydroelectric
  • Solar
  • Tidal
  • Wave
  • Wind

Electricity

Current, potential difference and resistance

Electrical Current

• Charge
• Coulomb
• Ammeter
• Amp

Potential Difference

• Voltmeter
• Volts

Resistance

• Conductor
  • Ohmic Conductor
  • Ohm's Law
• Insulator
• Ohm
• Resistor
  • Resistors in Series
  • Resistors in Parallel

GCSE Physics Required Practical: Investigating Resistance

Electrical Components

• Cell
  • Battery
• Variable Power Supply
• Alternating Current Supply
• Wires
• Electrical Bulb
• Switch
• Buzzer
• Motor
• Voltmeter
• Ammeter
• Resistors
  • Variable Resistor
  • Light Dependent Resistor
  • Thermistor
• Diode
• Light Emitting Diode
• Electrical Fuse
• Electrical Heater

IV Graph

• Resistor IV Graph
• Bulb IV Graph
• Diode IV Graph
• Thermistor IV Graph
• Light Dependent Resistor IV Graph

GCSE Physics Required Practical: Investigating Electrical Components

Series and Parallel Circuits

• Circuit Components
• Circuit Diagram
• Circuit
• Series Circuit
  • Resistors in Series
• Parallel Circuit
  • Resistors in Parallel

Domestic uses and safety

• Mains Electricity
• Direct Current
• Alternating Current
• 3-Core
• Electrical Plug
  • Earth Wire
  • Live Wire
  • Fuse
  • Neutral Wire

Energy transfers

• Electrical Power
  • Watts
• Energy Transfers in a Motor
• Energy Transfers in an Electrical Heater
• National Grid

Static electricity – forces and electric fields

Higher

• Static Electricity
  • Charge
  • Electrons
  • Electrostatic Field
  • Electrostatic Potential
  • Electrostatic Induction

Particle Model of Matter

Changes of state and the particle model

• Density

GCSE Physics Required Practical: Calculating Densities

• Particle Model
  • Solid
  • Liquid
  • Gas
• State Change
• Melting
  • Melting Point
• Freezing
• Evaporating
• Boiling
  • Boiling Point
• Condensing
• Subliming
• Depositing

Internal energy, energy transfers and particle motions

• Internal Energy
• Thermal Energy Store
• Specific Heat Capacity

GCSE Physics Required Practical: Determining Specific Heat Capacity

• Specific Latent Heat
  • Specific Latent Heat of Vaporisation
  • Specific Latent Heat of Fusion

Particle model and pressure

• Kinetic Theory
• Gas Pressure

Atomic Structure

Nuclear atom and isotopes

• The Dalton Model of the Atom
• The Plum Pudding Model of the Atom
• The Nuclear Model of the Atom
  • Rutherford's Alpha Scattering Experiment
• The Bohr Model of the Atom
  • Energy Level
• The Atom
• Nucleus
  • Nucleon
  • Protons
  • Neutrons
• Electrons
  • Electron Shells
• Atomic Number
  • Relative Atomic Charge
• Relative Atomic Mass
  • Isotopes
• Calculating the Numbers of Protons, Neutrons and Electrons

Absorption and emission of ionizing radiations and of electrons and nuclear particles

• The Bohr Model of the Atom
  • Energy Level
  • Outer Shell
  • Ions

• Unstable Isotopes
• Radioactive Decay
  • Ionising Radiation
    • Alpha Radiation
    • Beta Radiation
    • Gamma Radiation
    • Neutron Radiation
• Penetration Depth
• Ionising Potential
• Contamination
• Irradiation
• Nuclear Equations
• Half Life

Hazards and uses of radioactive emissions and of background radiation

• Radioactivity
• Count Rate
  • Becquerel
• Radiation Dose
  • Sievert
• Ionising Radiation
• Half Life
• Nuclear Waste
  • High Level Nuclear Waste
  • Intermediate Level Nuclear Waste
  • Low Level Nuclear Waste
• Background Radiation - jobs
• Geiger Counter

• Medical Uses of Ionising Radiation
  • Radioactive Tracer
  • Irradiating Tumours

Nuclear fission and fusion

• Unstable Isotope
• Nuclear Fission
  • Nuclear Chain Reaction
  • Nuclear Fission Reactor
    • Fuel Rod
    • Control Rod
    • Moderator
• Nuclear Fusion
• Rest Mass Energy