Physics Paper 1

• Energy stores

• transfers

•  conservation 

• dissipation

• efficiency

• specific heat capacity

• energy resources

• energy security

Required practicals: 

• Specific Heat Capacity

• Thermal Insulation

Electricity

• Charge flow

• current

• potential difference & resistance in series & parallel circuits

• Ohmic & non-ohmic conductors

• combining resistors

•  National Grid

Triple content:

• Static charge

Required practicals:

• Resistance

• I-V characteristics

Particle Model of Matter

• States of matter - behaviour & arrangement of particles

• internal energy

•  specific latent heat

• specific heat capacity

• density

• gas laws

Required Practical

• Density   

Atomic Structure

• The structure of an atom

• mass number

• atomic number + isotopes

• development of the model of the atom

• radioactive decay & nuclear radiation (alpha, beta, gamma, neutron)

• nuclear equations

• half-life

• contamination + irradiation

Triple content: 

• background radiation

• uses of nuclear radiation

• nuclear fission

• nuclear fusion