Compression
Contents
Key Stage 3
Meaning
To compress is to make something shorter or smaller in volume by applying a force.
About Compression
Key Stage 4
Meaning
To compress is to make something shorter of smaller in volume by applying a force.
About Compression
- Gas can be compressed easily but solids and liquids cannot be compressed because the particles in a solid and liquid are already touching.
- A spring can be compressed to become shorter due to pair of equilibrium forces.
References
AQA
- Compression, page 159, GCSE Physics; Third Edition, Oxford University Press, AQA
- Compression, pages 176-7, 194, 206, 210, 212, 257, GCSE Physics; Student Book, Collins, AQA
- Compression; of gas, page 99, GCSE Physics; Student Book, Collins, AQA
Edexcel
- Compression, page 182, GCSE Physics, Pearson Edexcel
- Compression, page 414, GCSE Combined Science, Pearson Edexcel
- Compressions (waves), pages 88, 89, 103, 104, GCSE Physics, CGP, Edexcel