Physics
Mechanica
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Zone 1
Electricity and Circuits
Building a Series Circuit
Mains Electricity in the UK
Reading Ammeters and Voltmeters
Series and Parallel Circuits
Static Electricity Basics
Current Rules in Series and Parallel
Fault Finding in a Circuit
Fuses and Plug Ratings
Switches and Cells in Series
Voltage, Current and Resistance
Adding Lamps: Series Versus Parallel Brightness
Electrical Hazards and Safety
Ohm's Law Practice: V = I x R
Resistance: What Changes It
Voltage Rules in Series and Parallel
Electrical Power: P = I x V
Zone 2
Forces
Balanced and Unbalanced Forces
Hooke's Law and Springs
Speed, Distance and Time
Acceleration
Distance-Time Graphs
Force Diagrams and Free-Body Diagrams
Friction and Drag
Moments and the Turning Effect of a Force
Scalars and Vectors
Resultant Force in One Dimension
Newton's First Law
Newton's Second Law
Newton's Third Law and Force Pairs
Terminal Velocity
Zone 3
Gravity, Weight, Mass
Mass and Weight
Calculating Weight
Centre of Mass and Stability
Earth, Moon and Tides
Inverse Square Law for Gravity
Newton's Third Law and Gravity
Satellites and Orbits
Weightlessness and Apparent Weight
Why Objects Fall Together in a Vacuum
Free Fall and Acceleration Due to Gravity
Gravity on Other Planets
Mass, Weight and Measuring Instruments
Zone 4
Energy Stores and Transfers
Energy Stores
Energy Transfers
Gravitational Potential Energy
Kinetic Energy
Conservation of Energy
Energy in Pendulums and Roller Coasters
UK Energy Mix
Useful and Wasted Energy
Work Done
Heating and Insulating UK Homes
Power
Sankey Diagrams
The National Grid
Cost of Electricity in UK Homes
Efficiency as a Percentage
Zone 5
Waves
Wave Anatomy
Frequency and Period
Law of Reflection
Loudness, Pitch and Hearing Range
Refraction at a Glass Block
Sound and Light Waves
Speed of Sound and Echoes
The Electromagnetic Spectrum
The Wave Equation
Dispersion and the Visible Spectrum
Doppler Effect
Plane Mirror Images
Uses and Dangers of EM Waves
Why the Sky is Blue
Zone 6
Space
The Solar System
Day, Night, and the Seasons
Light Years and Astronomical Distance
Moon Phases
Orbits and Gravity
Satellites and Space Technology
The Sun as a Star
Comets, Asteroids and Tidal Locking
Eclipses of the Sun and Moon
Galaxies and the Milky Way
Life Cycle of Stars
The Big Bang and an Expanding Universe
Zone 7
Magnetism
Earth's Magnetic Field
Electromagnets
Ferromagnetic Materials
Field Lines of a Bar Magnet
Plotting Fields: Iron Filings vs Plotting Compass
Strengthening an Electromagnet
The Motor Effect
Field of a Solenoid
The Simple DC Motor
Uses of Electromagnets