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GCSE WJEC Physics Revision Notes
1. Electricity, Energy & Waves
- Circuit symbols
- Current in Series & Parallel Circuits
- Voltage in Series & Parallel Circuits
- I-V Characteristics
- Investigating I-V Characteristics
- Current & Voltage Relationship
- Resistors in series and parallel
- Electrical power
- Power & Resistance
- Renewable & Non-renewable energy
- Generating electricity
- Comparing power stations
- Sankey diagrams & Efficiency
- The National Grid
- Density
- Determining Density
- Conduction, Convection & Radiation
- Investigating methods of heat transfer
- Reducing energy loss
- Investigating the costs of energy sources
- Calculating the cost of electricity
- Investigating the cost of using appliances
- Alternating current & Direct current
- Circuit breaker
- The ring main
- Cost-effectiveness of renewable energy equipment
- Investigating energy transfer
- Transverse & longitudinal waves
- Describing waves
- Wave equation
- Investigating the speed of water waves
- Reflection & refraction of waves
- The electromagnetic Spectrum
- Radiation
- Communication satellites
- Total internal reflection & Optical fibers
- Uses of optical fibers
- Properties of seismic waves
- Discoveries of seismic waves
- Pressure
- Absolute zero & Temperature
- Gas Laws
- Heat transfer & changes in Temperature
- Determining specific heat capacity
- Heat transfer & changes in state
- Magnetic fields
- Magnetic force on a current-carrying conductor
- C motors
- Electromagnetic induction
- Direction of induced current
- Transformer
- Transformer calculations
- Investigating the output of transformer
2. Forces, Space & Radioactivity
- Describing motion
- Distance-time graph
- Velocity-time graphs
- Thinking, braking & Stopping distance
- Traffic control measures
- Inertia
- Newton’s first law
- Newton’s second law
- Weight & Mass
- Investigating Terminal Speed
- Newton’s Third Law
- Energy transfer & Work
- KE
- GPE
- Elastic potential energy
- Calculating KE & Changes in GPE
- Force & Extension
- Investigating the force-extension graph for a spring
- Calculating work done in stretching
- Improve energy efficiency
- Safety features of cars
- Equations of motions
- Momentum
- Force & momentum
- Conservation of momentum
- The principle of moments
- Investigating the principle of moments
- The Solar System
- The Universe
- Life Cycle of Stars
- Stability of Stars
- Origin of the Solar System
- Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
- Atomic absorption spectra
- Cosmological red shift
- Evidence of the Big Bang
- Atomic nuclei
- Radioactive emission
- Types of radiation
- Nuclear equations
- Background radiation
- Sources of background radiation
- Modelling radioactive decay
- Half-Life
- Calculating Half life
- Determining Half-Life
- Uses of radioactive material
- Fission
- Nuclear fission reactor
- Fusion
- Nuclear equations for Fission & Fusion