There are eight mandatory core practicals to complete in school for your GCSE Physics. You need to record the work that you have undertaken. The practical record must include the knowledge, skills and understanding you have obtained from the practical activities. Scientific diagrams should be included, where appropriate, to show the set-up and to record the apparatus and procedures used in practical work.
You will be assessed on these skills in your final written exams.
Choose your topic:
Acceleration - Investigate the relationship between force, mass and acceleration by varying the masses added to trolleys
Waves - Investigate the suitability of equipment to measure the speed, frequency and wavelength of a wave in a fluid
Waves - Investigate the suitability of equipment to measure the speed, frequency and wavelength of a wave in a solid
Refraction - Investigate refraction in rectangular glass blocks in terms of the interaction of electromagnetic waves with matter.
Infrared - Investigate how the nature of a surface affects the amount of thermal energy radiated or absorbed
Electrical Circuits [FREE] - Investigate the relationship between potential difference, current and resistance for a resistor and a filament lamp
Electrical Circuits [FREE] - Test series and parallel circuits using resistors
Electrical Circuits [FREE] - Test series and parallel circuits using filament lamps
Density [FREE] - Investigate the densities of solid and liquids
Water [FREE] - Investigate the properties of water by determining the specific heat capacity
Water [FREE] - Investigate the properties of water by obtaining a temperature-time graph for melting ice
Springs - Investigate the extension and work done when applying forces to a spring