Forces and Motion | Whole unit GCSE physics

This bundle consists of 25 sections covering the entirety of the unit Forces and Motion in KS4 GCSE physics.

Each section consists of a PDF document designed for pupils to use as a handout to be integrated into the lesson. There is a corresponding document for teachers - it consists of my own notes and solutions to questions and tasks.

A typical layout of each section includes:

1. setting learning objectives
2. learning the theory
3. examples
4. small tasks
5. exam-style questions

This bundle is also great for revision and recapping key ideas for pupils in year 11 before their exams.

Below are the individual sections that I’ve divided the unit of Forces and Motion into. I hope that this resource is helpful and saves you plenty of time!

Movement and position

1 Speed, distance, and time
2 Speed and velocity
3 Distance-time graphs
4 Velocity and acceleration
5 Velocity-time graphs
6 Tangent on distance-time graphs
7 Non-uniform acceleration

Forces and movement

8 Types of forces
9 Scalars and vectors
10 Force diagrams
11 Resultant forces
12 Newton’s first law
13 Newton’s second law
14 Newton’s third law
15 Mass and weight
16 Terminal velocity
17 Stopping distance

Shape and momentum

18 Hooke’s law
19 Center of gravity
20 Moments
21 Principle of moments
22 Stability
23 Momentum
24 Conservation of momentum
25 Change in momentum