P1 Conservation and dissipation of energy

• Energy forms and energy transformations
• Energy and work
• Gravitational Potential energy stores
• Kinetic energy and Elastic energy stores
• Energy disspiation
• Energy and efficiency
• Electrical appliances
• Energy and Power

P2 Energy transfer by heating

• Energy transfer by conduction
• Infra-Red Radiation: Emission and Absorption
• Specific Heat capacity
• Heating and insulating buildings

P3 Energy Resources

• Energy demands
• Energy from wind and water
• Power from the Sun and the Earth
• Energy and the environment
• Big Energy issues

P4 Electrical ciruits

• Electrical charges and fields
• Current and Charge
• Conventional current and electron flow
• Circuit symbols
• Resistors and combining multiple resistors
• Factors affecting resistance
• Voltage
• Ohm’s Law V=IR
• V-I graphs for filament bulbs, diodes
• Current in series and parallel circuits
• Voltage in series and parallel circuits
• Thermistors
• Light Dependent Resistors

P5 Electricity in the home

• Alternating current and direct current
• Cables and Plugs
• Fuses and Earthing
• Electrical power and potential difference
• The National Grid and transformers
• Appliances and efficiency

P6 Molecules and matter

• Density
• States of matter
• Changes of state
• Internal energy
• Specific latent heat
• Gas pressure and temperature
• Brownian Motion
• Gas pressure and volume

P7 Radioactivity

• Atoms and radiation
• Radioactive decay
• The history of models of the atom
• Rutherford’s Alpha particle scattering experiment
• Alpha, Beta and Gamma
• Nuclear decay equations
• Use of radiation
• Uses of radiation in medicine
• Half life
• Radioactive Dating and Half life calculations
• Nuclear fission
• Nuclear chain reactions
• Nuclear Fission Reactors
• Nuclear fusion
• Nuclear issues

P8 Forces in the balance

• Vectors and Scalars
• Labelling forces and friction
• Resultant forces
• Moments at work
• Levers and gears
• Centre of mass
• Moments and equillibrium
• The parallelogram of forces
• Resolution of forces

P9 Motion

• Distance-time graphs
• velocity-time graphs
• Velocity and acceleration
• More about velocity-time graphs
• Analysing motion graphs

P10 Force and motion

• Force and acceleration
• Weight and terminal velocity
• Forces and braking
• Momentum
• Using the conservation of Momentum
• Changing momentum, Impact time and Safety
• Forces and elasticity

P11 Force and pressure

• Pressure and surfaces
• Pressure in a liquid at rest
• Atmospheric pressure
• Upthrust and floatation

P12 Wave properties

• Transverse and longitudinal
• The properties of waves
• Time period and frequency
• Waves Speed equation
• More about waves
• Sound waves
• Ultrasound
• Seismic waves

P13 Electromagnetic waves

• The electromagnetic spectrum
• Dangers of the electromagnetic spectrum
• Communications
• Ultraviolet waves, X-rays and gamma rays
• X-rays in medicine

P14 Light

• Reflection
• Refraction
• Diffraction
• Light and Colour
• Lenses
• Ray diagrams for Lenses

P15 Electromagnetism

• Magnets and magnetic fields
• Magnetic fields of Electric Currents and The Right Hand rule
• Solenoids and Electromagnets
• Electromagets in devices
• The motor effect and the Left Hand Rule
• The DC Motor
• The Generator effect
• DC and AC Generators
• The National Grid and transformers
• Transformers
• Transformers equations