AQA GCSE Physics lessons

4.1 Energy

4.1.1 Energy changes in a system

4.1.1.1a - Energy Stores and System Changes

4.1.1.1b - Energy Calculations and Redistribution

4.1.1.2a - Kinetic Energy

4.1.1.2b - Elastic Potential Energy in a Stretched Spring

4.1.1.2c - Gravitational Potential Energy

4.1.1.3 - Specific Heat Capacity and Required Practical 1

4.1.1.4 - Power and Work Rate

4.1.2 Conservation and dissipation of energy

4.1.2.1a - Conservation, Dissipation and Closed Systems

4.1.2.1b - Reducing Unwanted Energy Transfers and Required Practical 2

4.1.2.2 - Efficiency

4.1.3 National and global energy resources

4.1.3a - Energy Resources, Uses and Reliability

4.1.3b - Environmental Impact and Energy Resource Decisions

4.2 Electricity

4.2.1 Current, potential difference and resistance

4.2.1.1 - Standard circuit diagram symbols

4.2.1.2 - Electrical Charge and Current

4.2.1.3a - Current, Resistance and Potential Difference

4.2.1.3b - Required Practical 3 - Resistance in Circuits

4.2.1.4a - Ohmic conductors, filament lamps and diodes

4.2.1.4b - Thermistors, LDRs And Sensing Circuits

4.2.1.4c - I-V Characteristics and Required Practical 4

4.2.2 Series and parallel circuits

4.2.2a - Series Circuits and Equivalent Resistance

4.2.2b - Parallel Circuits and Circuit Calculations

4.2.3 Domestic uses and safety

4.2.3.1 - Direct and alternating potential difference

4.2.3.2 - Mains Electricity and Three-Core Cable Safety

4.2.4 Energy transfers

4.2.4.1 - Electrical Power in Circuits

4.2.4.2 - Energy Transfers in Everyday Appliances

4.2.4.3 - The National Grid

4.2.5 Static electricity

4.2.5.1 - Static Charge

4.2.5.2 - Electric Fields

4.3 Particle model of matter

4.3.1 Changes of state and the particle model

4.3.1.1a - Density Equation and Particle Model

4.3.1.1b - Required Practical 5 - Measuring Density

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4.3.1.2 - Changes of State

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4.3.2 Internal energy and energy transfers

4.3.2.1 - Internal Energy

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4.3.2.2 - Temperature Changes and Specific Heat Capacity

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4.3.2.3a - Specific Latent Heat and State-Change Energy

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4.3.2.3b - Heating and Cooling Graphs

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4.3.3 Particle model and pressure

4.3.3.1 - Particle Motion in Gases

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4.3.3.2 - Pressure in Gases

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4.3.3.3 - Increasing the Pressure of a Gas

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4.4 Atomic structure

4.4.1 Atoms and isotopes

4.4.1.1 - The Structure of an Atom

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4.4.1.2 - Mass Number, Atomic Number and Isotopes

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4.4.1.3 - The Development of the Model of the Atom

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4.4.2 Atoms and nuclear radiation

4.4.2.1a - Radioactive Decay, Activity and Radiation Types

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4.4.2.1b - Properties and Uses of Nuclear Radiation

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4.4.2.2 - Nuclear Equations

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4.4.2.3a - Half-life and Random Decay

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4.4.2.3b - Net Decline After Half-Lives

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4.4.2.4 - Radioactive Contamination and Irradiation

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4.4.3 Hazards and uses of radioactive emissions and of background radiation

4.4.3.1 - Background Radiation

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4.4.3.2 - Half-Lives and Isotope Hazards

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4.4.3.3 - Uses of Nuclear Radiation

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4.4.4 Nuclear fission and fusion

4.4.4.1 - Nuclear Fission

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4.4.4.2 - Nuclear Fusion

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4.5 Forces

4.5.1 Forces and their interactions

4.5.1.1 - Scalar and Vector Quantities

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4.5.1.2 - Contact and non-contact forces

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4.5.1.3 - Gravity, Weight and Mass

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4.5.1.4a - Resultant Forces in Straight Lines

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4.5.1.4b - Free-Body Diagrams and Resolving Forces

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4.5.2 Work done and energy transfer

4.5.2 - Calculating Work Done and Energy Transfer

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4.5.3 Forces and elasticity

4.5.3a - Elastic Deformation and Hooke's Law

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4.5.3b - Elastic Potential Energy and Force-Extension Data

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4.5.3c - Required Practical 6 - Force and Extension

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4.5.4 Moments, levers and gears

4.5.4 - Calculating Moments and Transmitting Rotation

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4.5.5 Pressure and pressure differences in fluids

4.5.5.1.1 - Pressure at a Surface

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4.5.5.1.2 - Pressure in Liquids, Upthrust and Sinking

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4.5.5.2 - Atmospheric Pressure

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4.5.6 Forces and motion

4.5.6.1.1 - Distance and Displacement

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4.5.6.1.2 - Speed

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4.5.6.1.3 - Velocity

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4.5.6.1.4 - Distance-Time Graphs

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4.5.6.1.5a - Acceleration and Velocity-Time Graphs

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4.5.6.1.5b - Uniform Acceleration and Terminal Velocity

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4.5.6.2.1 - Newton's First Law

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4.5.6.2.2a - Newton's Second Law and Resultant Force

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4.5.6.2.2b - Inertial Mass and Required Practical 7

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4.5.6.2.3 - Newton's Third Law

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4.5.6.3.1 - Stopping Distance

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4.5.6.3.2 - Reaction time

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4.5.6.3.3 - Factors Affecting Braking Distance

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4.5.6.3.4 - Factors Affecting Braking Distance 2

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4.5.7 Momentum

4.5.7.1 - Momentum

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4.5.7.2 - Conservation of Momentum

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4.5.7.3 - Changes in Momentum

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4.6 Waves

4.6.1 Waves in air, fluids and solids

4.6.1.1 - Transverse and Longitudinal Waves

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4.6.1.2a - Wave Properties and Equations

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4.6.1.2b - Measuring Wave Speed and Required Practical 8

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4.6.1.3a - Reflection of Waves

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4.6.1.3b - Required Practical 9 - Reflection and Refraction

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4.6.1.4 - Sound Waves

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4.6.1.5a - Ultrasound and Echo Sounding

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4.6.1.5b - Seismic Waves and Earth Structure

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4.6.2 Electromagnetic waves

4.6.2.1 - The Electromagnetic Spectrum

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4.6.2.2a - Refraction of Electromagnetic Waves

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4.6.2.2b - Required Practical 10 - Infrared Radiation and Surfaces

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4.6.2.3a - Radio Waves and Electromagnetic Emission

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4.6.2.3b - Ultraviolet, X-ray and Gamma Hazards

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4.6.2.4 - Uses and Applications of Electromagnetic Waves

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4.6.2.5 - Lenses

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4.6.2.6 - Visible Light

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4.6.3 Black body radiation

4.6.3.1 - Emission and Absorption of Infrared Radiation

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4.6.3.2 - Perfect Black Bodies and Radiation Balance

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4.7 Magnetism and electromagnetism

4.7.1 Permanent and induced magnetism, magnetic forces and fields

4.7.1.1 - Poles of a Magnet

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4.7.1.2 - Magnetic Fields

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4.7.2 The motor effect

4.7.2.1a - Magnetic fields from currents and solenoids

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4.7.2.1b - Electromagnetic Devices

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4.7.2.2 - Fleming's Left-Hand Rule

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4.7.2.3 - Electric Motors

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4.7.2.4 - Loudspeakers

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4.7.3 Induced potential, transformers and the National Grid

4.7.3.1 - Induced Potential and the Generator Effect

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4.7.3.2 - Uses of the generator effect

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4.7.3.3 - Microphones

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4.7.3.4a - Transformer Structure and Turns Ratio

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4.7.3.4b - Transformer Power, Current and Transmission

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4.8 Space physics (physics only)

4.8.1 Solar system, orbital motion and satellites

4.8.1.1 - Our Solar System and Star Formation

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4.8.1.2 - The Life Cycle of a Star

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4.8.1.3 - Orbital Motion, Natural and Artificial Satellites

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4.8.2 Red-shift and the expanding universe

4.8.2a - Red-shift and an Expanding Universe

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4.8.2b - Big Bang Theory, Dark Mass and Dark Energy

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4.9 Key ideas

4.9 Key ideas in physics

4.9 - Models, Fields and Mathematical Relationships

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4.1 Energy4.1 Energy

4.1.1 Energy changes in a system4.1.1 Energy changes in a system

4.1.2 Conservation and dissipation of energy4.1.2 Conservation and dissipation of energy

4.1.3 National and global energy resources4.1.3 National and global energy resources

4.2 Electricity4.2 Electricity

4.2.1 Current, potential difference and resistance4.2.1 Current, potential difference and resistance

4.2.2 Series and parallel circuits4.2.2 Series and parallel circuits

4.2.3 Domestic uses and safety4.2.3 Domestic uses and safety

4.2.4 Energy transfers4.2.4 Energy transfers

4.2.5 Static electricity4.2.5 Static electricity

4.3 Particle model of matter4.3 Particle model of matter

4.3.1 Changes of state and the particle model4.3.1 Changes of state and the particle model

4.3.2 Internal energy and energy transfers4.3.2 Internal energy and energy transfers

4.3.3 Particle model and pressure4.3.3 Particle model and pressure

4.4 Atomic structure4.4 Atomic structure

4.4.1 Atoms and isotopes4.4.1 Atoms and isotopes

4.4.2 Atoms and nuclear radiation4.4.2 Atoms and nuclear radiation

4.4.3 Hazards and uses of radioactive emissions and of background radiation4.4.3 Hazards and uses of radioactive emissions and of background radiation

4.4.4 Nuclear fission and fusion4.4.4 Nuclear fission and fusion

4.5 Forces4.5 Forces

4.5.1 Forces and their interactions4.5.1 Forces and their interactions

4.5.2 Work done and energy transfer4.5.2 Work done and energy transfer

4.5.3 Forces and elasticity4.5.3 Forces and elasticity

4.5.4 Moments, levers and gears4.5.4 Moments, levers and gears

4.5.5 Pressure and pressure differences in fluids4.5.5 Pressure and pressure differences in fluids

4.5.6 Forces and motion4.5.6 Forces and motion

4.5.7 Momentum4.5.7 Momentum

4.6 Waves4.6 Waves

4.6.1 Waves in air, fluids and solids4.6.1 Waves in air, fluids and solids

4.6.2 Electromagnetic waves4.6.2 Electromagnetic waves

4.6.3 Black body radiation4.6.3 Black body radiation

4.7 Magnetism and electromagnetism4.7 Magnetism and electromagnetism

4.7.1 Permanent and induced magnetism, magnetic forces and fields4.7.1 Permanent and induced magnetism, magnetic forces and fields

4.7.2 The motor effect4.7.2 The motor effect

4.7.3 Induced potential, transformers and the National Grid4.7.3 Induced potential, transformers and the National Grid

4.8 Space physics (physics only)4.8 Space physics (physics only)

4.8.1 Solar system, orbital motion and satellites4.8.1 Solar system, orbital motion and satellites

4.8.2 Red-shift and the expanding universe4.8.2 Red-shift and the expanding universe

4.9 Key ideas4.9 Key ideas

4.9 Key ideas in physics4.9 Key ideas in physics

4.1 Energy

4.1.1 Energy changes in a system

4.1.2 Conservation and dissipation of energy

4.1.3 National and global energy resources

4.2 Electricity

4.2.1 Current, potential difference and resistance

4.2.2 Series and parallel circuits

4.2.3 Domestic uses and safety

4.2.4 Energy transfers

4.2.5 Static electricity

4.3 Particle model of matter

4.3.1 Changes of state and the particle model

4.3.2 Internal energy and energy transfers

4.3.3 Particle model and pressure

4.4 Atomic structure

4.4.1 Atoms and isotopes

4.4.2 Atoms and nuclear radiation

4.4.3 Hazards and uses of radioactive emissions and of background radiation

4.4.4 Nuclear fission and fusion

4.5 Forces

4.5.1 Forces and their interactions

4.5.2 Work done and energy transfer

4.5.3 Forces and elasticity

4.5.4 Moments, levers and gears

4.5.5 Pressure and pressure differences in fluids

4.5.6 Forces and motion

4.5.7 Momentum

4.6 Waves

4.6.1 Waves in air, fluids and solids

4.6.2 Electromagnetic waves

4.6.3 Black body radiation

4.7 Magnetism and electromagnetism

4.7.1 Permanent and induced magnetism, magnetic forces and fields

4.7.2 The motor effect

4.7.3 Induced potential, transformers and the National Grid

4.8 Space physics (physics only)

4.8.1 Solar system, orbital motion and satellites

4.8.2 Red-shift and the expanding universe

4.9 Key ideas

4.9 Key ideas in physics