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GCSE Physics Exam Papers GCSE Physics Required Practicals
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Contents

Energy

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

Systems

Energy Store

Calculating Energy Stores

Energy Transfers

GCSE Physics Required Practical: Investigating Thermal Insulators

Power Ratings of Electrical Appliances

Conservation, dissipation and national and global energy sources

Improving Energy Transfers

Energy Resources

Forces

Forces and their Interactions

Representing Forces

Contact Forces

Non-contact Forces

Interactions

GCSE Physics Required Practical: Investigating Hooke's Law

Work Done as force x distance, energy transfer

Pressure and pressure differences in fluids

Moments, Levers and gears

Forces and Motion

Speed and velocity, speed as distance over time; acceleration; distance-time and velocity-time graphs

Motion

Graphing Motion

Forces, accelerations and Newton’s laws of motion

Higher

GCSE Physics Required Practical: Investigating Newton's Second Law

Safety in public transport

Waves in matter

Waves in air, fluids and solids

Wave Properties

Mechanical Waves

GCSE Physics Required Practical: Investigating Mechanical Waves

Waves at material interfaces: applications in exploring structures

GCSE Physics Required Practical: Investigating Reflection and Refraction of Light

Higher

Light and Electromagnetic Waves

Frequency range of the spectrum

Electromagnetic Waves

Interactions of electromagnetic radiation with matter and their applications

Applications of Electromagnetic Waves

Dangers of Electromagnetic Waves

Lenses

Colour and frequency; differential effects in transmission, absorption and diffuse reflection

Black Body Radiation

GCSE Physics Required Practical: Investigating Infra-red Radiation

Electricity

Current, potential difference and resistance

Electrical Current

Potential Difference

Resistance

GCSE Physics Required Practical: Investigating Resistance

Electrical Components

IV Graph

GCSE Physics Required Practical: Investigating Electrical Components

Series and Parallel Circuits

Domestic uses and safety

Energy transfers

Static electricity – forces and electric fields

Higher

Magnetism and Electromagnetism

Permanent and induced magnetism, magnetic forces and fields

Magnetism

Magnetic effects of currents and the motor effect

Higher

Induced potential, transformers and the national grid

Microphones and speakers; oscillating currents in detection and generation of radiation

Particle Model of Matter

Changes of state and the particle model

GCSE Physics Required Practical: Calculating Densities

Internal energy, energy transfers and particle motions

GCSE Physics Required Practical: Determining Specific Heat Capacity

Particle model and pressure

Atomic Structure

Nuclear atom and isotopes

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

Hazards and uses of radioactive emissions and of background radiation

Nuclear fission and fusion

Space Physics

Solar system; stability of orbital motions; satellites

Red-shift as sources move away; the ‘big bang’ and universal expansion