Errors in Measurement of Physical Quantities

Identify where measurement errors come from, tell random from systematic errors, report results with the right significant figures and uncertainty, and combine errors in calculations.

2

Uniformly Accelerated Rectilinear Motion

Describe straight-line motion with constant acceleration, solve problems with the four equations of motion (including free fall), and read and draw displacement–time and velocity–time graphs.

3

Friction Force

Explain what friction is and why it happens, tell static, kinetic, rolling and drag friction apart, calculate friction with μN, and weigh the advantages and disadvantages of friction in daily life.

4

Pressure in Solids and Liquids

Calculate pressure in solids and liquids, explain communicating vessels and non-miscible liquids, measure pressure with barometers and manometers, and apply Pascal's principle to hydraulic machines.

5

Simple Machines

Explain how levers, inclined planes, screws, wheels and axles and pulleys make work easier, and calculate their mechanical advantage, velocity ratio and efficiency.

6

Conservation of Mechanical Energy

Classify systems as isolated, closed or open, calculate kinetic and potential energy, and use the conservation of mechanical energy to predict speeds and heights and to account for friction in real machines such as hydropower stations.

7

Ideal Gas Laws

Describe an ideal gas with the particle model, then use Boyle's, Charles's, Gay-Lussac's and Dalton's laws and the ideal gas equation PV = nRT to predict how pressure, volume and temperature change, from bicycle pumps to weather balloons and oxygen at altitude.

8

Magnetism

Identify magnetic materials and the properties of magnets, map magnetic fields and the Earth's field, magnetise and demagnetise materials, and explain how electromagnets, the electric bell and magnetic shielding work, including simple field-strength calculations in tesla.

9

Electric Field and Applications of Electrostatics

Calculate electric field intensity and potential for point charges and parallel plates, draw field patterns and add fields and forces by superposition, explain how charge is distributed on conductors, and apply these ideas to lightning arrestors, paint spraying, photocopiers, laser printers, Van de Graaff generators and electrostatic precipitators.

10

Reflection of Light in Curved Mirrors

Name the parts of concave and convex mirrors, apply the laws of reflection to draw ray diagrams, use the mirror equation 1/f = 1/u + 1/v and magnification to locate and describe images, and explain why each kind of curved mirror is chosen for torches, solar cookers, shaving mirrors and vehicle mirrors.

Units

Errors in Measurement of Physical Quantities

Uniformly Accelerated Rectilinear Motion

Friction Force

Pressure in Solids and Liquids

Simple Machines

Conservation of Mechanical Energy

Ideal Gas Laws

Magnetism

Electric Field and Applications of Electrostatics

Reflection of Light in Curved Mirrors

Units

Errors in Measurement of Physical Quantities

Uniformly Accelerated Rectilinear Motion

Friction Force

Pressure in Solids and Liquids

Simple Machines

Conservation of Mechanical Energy

Ideal Gas Laws

Magnetism

Electric Field and Applications of Electrostatics

Reflection of Light in Curved Mirrors