Physics Virtual Lessons
Course content
Intro topic (maths skills)
- Standard Form
- Manipulating formulae
Energy
- Energy changes in mechanical processes
- Power
- Useful and wasteful energy transfers
- Reducing unwanted energy transfers
- Efficiency
- Energy sources
Electricity
- Electric Charge and Current
- Voltage and Potential Difference
- Resistance
- Types of Resistor
- Investigating Resistance
- Series Circuits
- Parallel Circuits
- Investigating parallel and series circuits
- Domestic electricity supplies
- Electrical power
- Electrical energy transfers
- The National Grid
- Static electricity
- Electric fields
Particle model of matter
- Energy and changes of state
- Specific heat capacity
- Gas pressure
- Fluid pressure
Nuclear Physics
- Atoms and isotopes
- Models of the atom
- Nuclear radiation
- Nuclear calculations
- Half-life
- Contamination and irradiation
- Using radioactivity
- Using radioactivity in medicine
- Fission
- Fusion
Motion
- Speed
- Acceleration
- Distance time graph
- Velocity time graphs
- Stopping distances
- Reaction time
- Braking distance
Forces
- Newton's second law
- Newton's third law
- Resultant forces
- Gravity
- Forces doing work
- Forces and elasticity
- Rotational forces
- Momentum
- Changes in momentum
Waves and the electromagnetic spectrum topic
- Describing waves
- Measuring waves
- Sound & hearing
- Waves for detection and exploration
- The electromagnetic spectrum
- Using electromagnetic waves
- Creating electromagnetic waves
- Reflection of waves
- Refraction of waves
- Wave transmission & absorption
- Lenses 1
- Lenses 2
- Colour and visible light
- Black body radiation
Magnets
- Magnetic fields
- Electromagnetism
- Electric motors
- The Generator Effect
- Transformers
Astronomy & Space
- The Life Cycle of Stars
- Gravity and Orbits
- Red Shift and Theories of the Universe
