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UK GCSE Physics · independent study
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Choosing a system and tracking energy
Calculating kinetic, gravitational and elastic changes
Specific heat capacity and a measured temperature rise
Power: how fast energy is transferred
Conservation, dissipation and reducing unwanted transfers
Efficiency and useful output
Comparing energy resources with evidence
Reading and drawing a circuit
Current is a rate of charge flow
Potential difference and resistance
Solving a series circuit
Parallel branches and charge conservation
This practical study: resistance of a wire
This practical study: testing resistor combinations
Why I–V graphs have different shapes
Thermistors and LDRs as sensors
This practical study: collecting I–V evidence
Direct and alternating supplies
Live, neutral and earth: explaining mains hazards
Electrical power, charge and appliance transfers
Why the National Grid uses high potential difference
Static charge: electron transfer and forces
Electric fields and why air can spark
Auditing electrical transfers when operating conditions change
Testing a resistance claim with uncertainty and an intercept
Constructing and challenging component graphs
Density: choose a volume method, then test the result
Changes of state: follow particles across a system boundary
Energy inside matter
Temperature rise after accounting for loss
Energy changes during melting and boiling
Reading a heating curve as an energy account
Random motion and pressure at fixed volume
Changing volume at a controlled temperature
Compression work and internal energy
Testing a specific-heat estimate against its energy boundary
Half-life describes a population, not a countdown