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CIE General Physics
This is a large and important area of your GCSE physics. It explains how the world that we can see around us works.
Choose your topic:
- Speed [FREE] - Mph, km/h or in physics m/s. How quickly an object is moving
- Velocity - The speed in a given direction
- Acceleration - How quickly an objects velocity is changing
- Motion Graphs - Distance-time and velocity-time graphs
- Terminal Velocity - When the forces on a moving object are balanced
- More Terminal Velocity - Drawing and interpreting velocity-time graphs
- Density [FREE] - The amount of 'stuff' in a given space
- Scalars and Vectors [FREE] - These quantities both have a size, but vectors also have a direction
- Forces [FREE] - Something that acts on an object due to its interaction with another object
- Resultant Force [FREE] - This is the overall force that acts on an object
- Free Body Diagrams - These allow us to clearly see all the forces acting on an object
- Springs - Stretching, bending and compressing elastic and inelastic objects
- Newton's First and Second Laws - The forces that act on one object
- Motion in a Circle - Constant speed but changing velocity
- Moments - The turning effect of a force
- Scalars and Vectors [FREE] - These quantities both have a size, but vectors also have a direction
- Resolving and Adding Forces - Both graphically and mathematically
- Momentum - An introduction to momentum for higher tier students
- More Momentum - More advanced calculations involving conservation of momentum
- Stores and Transfers [FREE] - Energy can be stored in many ways
- Stores and Transfers: Examples [FREE] - Descriptions of the changes involved
- Kinetic Energy [FREE] - How to calculate the energy stored in moving objects
- Gravitational Potential Energy [FREE] - When an object moves up or down
- Energy Resources [FREE] - The resources we use for electricity generation, heating and transport
- Non-Renewable Resources [FREE] - Coal, oil, gas and nuclear fission
- Renewable Resources [FREE] - Wind, solar, hydro, wave and tidal
- Conservation and Efficiency [FREE] - Energy cannot be created or destroyed, just transferred
- Work Done - Work is done when a force causes an object to move a distance
- Power and Energy [FREE] - The rate of energy transfer
- Pressure - In fluids this causes a force at right angles to a surface