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UK GCSE Physics · independent study · myAudience
Independent myAudience subject study using references for England. Published readings cover selected topics; full curriculum, assessment and practical coverage are not verified. No awarding-body affiliation, endorsement, qualification or grade guarantee is offered. Check the source specification and your centre for the requirements of your chosen course.
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
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
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
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