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Companion PDF worksheet for Edexcel IGCSE Physics Lecture 17 - Sound Waves. Contains short answer questions, an activity requiring lateral thinking and exam-style questions.
Specification Point 3.24P - Know that the frequency range for human hearing is 20–20,000 Hz.
Specification Point 3.25P - Practical: investigate the speed of sound in air.
Specification Point 3.26P - Understand how an oscilloscope and microphone can be used to display a sound wave.
Specification Point 3.27P - Practical: investigate the frequency of a sound wave using an oscilloscope.
Specification Point 3.28P - Understand how the pitch of a sound relates to the frequency of vibration of the source.
Specification Point 3.29P - Understand how the loudness of a sound relates to the amplitude of vibration of the source.
Complete set of Chapter 3 Worksheets are available.
Companion PDF worksheet for Edexcel IGCSE Physics Lecture 12 - Circuits Part 2. Contains short answer questions, an activity requiring lateral thinking and exam-style questions.
Specification Point 2.15 - Know and use the relationship between charge, current and time.
Specification Point 2.16 - Know that electric current in solid metallic conductors is a flow of negatively charged electrons.
Specification Point 2.17 - Understand why current is conserved at a junction in a circuit.
Specification Point 2.18 - Know that the voltage across two components connected in parallel is the same.
Specification Point 2.19 - Calculate the currents, voltages and resistances of two resistive components connected in a series circuit.
Specification Point 2.20 - Know that voltage is the energy transferred per unit charge passed and that the volt is a joule per coulomb.
Specification Point 2.21 - Know and use the relationship between energy transferred, charge and voltage.
Complete set of Chapter 2 Worksheets are available.
Companion PDF worksheet for Edexcel IGCSE Physics Lecture 11 - Circuits Part 1. Contains short answer questions, an activity requiring lateral thinking and exam-style questions.
Specification Point 2.7 - Explain why a series or parallel circuit is more appropriate for particular applications, including domestic lighting.
Specification Point 2.8 - Understand how the current in a series circuit depends on the applied voltage and the number and nature of other components.
Specification Point 2.9 - Describe how current varies with voltage in wires, resistors, metal filament lamps and diodes, and how to investigate this experimentally.
Specification Point 2.10 - Describe the qualitative effect of changing resistance on the current in a circuit.
Specification Point 2.11 - Describe the qualitative variation of resistance of light-dependent resistors (LDRs) with illumination and thermistors with temperature.
Specification Point 2.12 - Know that lamps and LEDs can be used to indicate the presence of a current in a circuit.
Specification Point 2.13 - Know and use the relationship between voltage, current and resistance.
Complete set of Chapter 2 Worksheets are available.
Powerpoint lecture and associated PDF worksheet covering the following in a modern, concise format:
Specification Point 2.7 - Explain why a series or parallel circuit is more appropriate for particular applications, including domestic lighting.
Specification Point 2.8 - Understand how the current in a series circuit depends on the applied voltage and the number and nature of other components.
Specification Point 2.9 - Describe how current varies with voltage in wires, resistors, metal filament lamps and diodes, and how to investigate this experimentally.
Specification Point 2.10 - Describe the qualitative effect of changing resistance on the current in a circuit.
Specification Point 2.11 - Describe the qualitative variation of resistance of light-dependent resistors (LDRs) with illumination and thermistors with temperature.
Specification Point 2.12 - Know that lamps and LEDs can be used to indicate the presence of a current in a circuit.
Specification Point 2.13 - Know and use the relationship between voltage, current and resistance.
Complete set of Chapter 2 Lessons are available.
Powerpoint lecture covering the following in a modern, concise format:
Specification Point 2.7 - Explain why a series or parallel circuit is more appropriate for particular applications, including domestic lighting.
Specification Point 2.8 - Understand how the current in a series circuit depends on the applied voltage and the number and nature of other components.
Specification Point 2.9 - Describe how current varies with voltage in wires, resistors, metal filament lamps and diodes, and how to investigate this experimentally.
Specification Point 2.10 - Describe the qualitative effect of changing resistance on the current in a circuit.
Specification Point 2.11 - Describe the qualitative variation of resistance of light-dependent resistors (LDRs) with illumination and thermistors with temperature.
Specification Point 2.12 - Know that lamps and LEDs can be used to indicate the presence of a current in a circuit.
Specification Point 2.13 - Know and use the relationship between voltage, current and resistance.
Complete set of Chapter 2 Lectures are available.
Powerpoint lecture covering the following in a modern, concise format:
Specification Point 2.15 - Know and use the relationship between charge, current and time.
Specification Point 2.16 - Know that electric current in solid metallic conductors is a flow of negatively charged electrons.
Specification Point 2.17 - Understand why current is conserved at a junction in a circuit.
Specification Point 2.18 - Know that the voltage across two components connected in parallel is the same.
Specification Point 2.19 - Calculate the currents, voltages and resistances of two resistive components connected in a series circuit.
Specification Point 2.20 - Know that voltage is the energy transferred per unit charge passed and that the volt is a joule per coulomb.
Specification Point 2.21 - Know and use the relationship between energy transferred, charge and voltage.
Complete set of Chapter 2 Lectures are available.
Powerpoint lecture and associated PDF worksheet covering the following in a modern, concise format:
Specification Point 2.1 - Use the following units: ampere, coulomb, joule , ohm, second, volt and watt.
Specification Point 2.2 - Understand how the use of insulation, double insulation, earthing, fuses and circuit breakers protects the device or user in a range of domestic appliances.
Specification Point 2.3 - Understand why a current in a resistor results in the electrical transfer of energy and an increase in temperature, and how this can be used in a variety of domestic contexts.
Specification Point 2.14 - Know that current is the rate of flow of charge.
Complete set of Chapter 2 Lessons are available.
Powerpoint lecture and associated PDF worksheet covering the following in a modern, concise format:
Specification Point 2.15 - Know and use the relationship between charge, current and time.
Specification Point 2.16 - Know that electric current in solid metallic conductors is a flow of negatively charged electrons.
Specification Point 2.17 - Understand why current is conserved at a junction in a circuit.
Specification Point 2.18 - Know that the voltage across two components connected in parallel is the same.
Specification Point 2.19 - Calculate the currents, voltages and resistances of two resistive components connected in a series circuit.
Specification Point 2.20 - Know that voltage is the energy transferred per unit charge passed and that the volt is a joule per coulomb.
Specification Point 2.21 - Know and use the relationship between energy transferred, charge and voltage.
Complete set of Chapter 2 Lessons are available.
Powerpoint lecture and associated PDF worksheet covering the following in a modern, concise format:
Specification Point 2.22P - Identify common materials which are electrical conductors or insulators, including metals and plastics.
Specification Point 2.23P - Practical: investigate how insulating materials can be charged by friction.
Specification Point 2.24P - Explain how positive and negative electrostatic charges are produced on materials by the loss and gain of electrons.
Specification Point 2.25P - Know that there are forces of attraction between unlike charges and forces of repulsion between like charges.
Specification Point 2.26P - Explain electrostatic phenomena in terms of the movement of electrons.
Specification Point 2.27P - Explain the potential dangers of electrostatic charges.
Specification Point 2.28P - Explain some uses of electrostatic charges.
Complete set of Chapter 2 Lessons are available.
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Specification Point 3.1 - Use the following units: degree (°), hertz (Hz), metre (m), metre/second (m/s) and second (s).
Specification Point 3.2 - Explain the difference between longitudinal and transverse waves.
Specification Point 3.3 - Know the definitions of amplitude, wavefront, frequency, wavelength and period of a waves.
Specification Point 3.4 - Know that waves transfer energy and information without transferring matter.
Specification Point 3.5 - Know and use the relationship between the speed, frequency and wavelength of a wave.
Specification Point 3.6 - Use the relationship between frequency and time period.
Complete set of Chapter 3 Lessons are available.
Huge bundle of resources. First half of the Edexcel IGCSE Biology course covered in full.
Complete set of concise, modern presentations and associated PDF worksheets for Edexcel IGCSE Biology (4BI0) Chapter 1 - Living Organisms, Chapter 2 - Nutrition and Respiration and Chapter 3 - Movement of Substances in Living Organisms. Contains colour coded specification points. 26 presentations and companion worksheets included:
1 - Characteristics of Living Organisms
2 - Variety of Living Organisms
3 - Organisation and Cell Structure
4 - Cell Differentiation
5 - Biological Molecules
6 - Food Tests
7 - Enzymes
8 - Enzymes and pH
9 - Movement Across Membranes
10 - Nutrition in Plants
11 - The Leaf
12 - Investigating Photosynthesis
13 - Human Nutrition
14 - The Digestive System
15 - Digestion and Absorption
16 - Energy in Food
17 - Respiration
18 - Gas Exchange in Plants
19 - Ventilation
20 - The Alveoli and Lung Disease
21 - Transport Mechanisms
22 - Transpiration
23 - The Blood
24 - Vaccination
25 - The Heart
26 - The Circulatory System
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Specification Point 4.11 - Know and use the relationship between work done, force and distance moved in the direction of the force.
Specification Point 4.12 - Know that work done is equal to energy transferred.
Specification Point 4.13 - Know and use the relationship between gravitational potential energy, mass, gravitational field strength and height.
Specification Point 4.14 - Know and use the relationship between kinetic energy, mass and speed.
Specification Point 4.15 - Understand how conservation of energy produces a link between gravitational potential energy, kinetic energy and work.
Specification Point 4.16 - Describe power as the rate of transfer of energy or the rate of doing work.
Specification Point 4.17 - Use the relationship between power, work done and time taken.
Complete set of Chapter 4 Lectures are available.
Companion PDF worksheet for Edexcel IGCSE Physics Lecture 21 - Sources of Energy. Contains short answer questions, an activity requiring lateral thinking and exam-style questions.
Specification Point 4.18P - Describe the energy transfers involved in generating electricity.
Specification Point 4.19P - Describe the advantages and disadvantages of methods of large-scale electricity production from various renewable and non-renewable resources.
Complete set of Chapter 4 Worksheets are available.
Companion PDF worksheet for Edexcel IGCSE Physics Lecture 18 - Energy. Contains short answer questions, an activity requiring lateral thinking and exam-style questions.
Specification Point 4.1 - Use a variety of energy units.
Specification Point 4.2 - Describe energy transfers involving energy stores.
Specification Point 4.3 - Use the principle of conservation of energy.
Specification Point 4.4 - Know and use the relationship between efficiency, useful energy output and total energy output.
Specification Point 4.5 - Describe a variety of everyday and scientific devices and situations, explaining the transfer of the input energy in terms of the above relationship, including their representation by Sankey diagrams.
Complete set of Chapter 4 Worksheets are available.
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Specification Point 8.2 - Know that the universe is a large collection of billions of galaxies, that a galaxy is a large collection of billions of stars and that our solar system is in the Milky Way galaxy.
Specification Point 8.3 - Understand why gravitational field strength, g, varies and know that it is different on other planets and the Moon from that on the Earth.
Specification Point 8.4 - Explain that gravitational force causes moons to orbit planets, causes the planets to orbit the Sun, causes artificial satellites to orbit the Earth and causes comets to orbit the Sun.
Specification Point 8.5 - Describe the differences in the orbits of comets, moons and planets.
Specification Point 8.6 - Use the relationship between orbital speed, orbital radius and time period.
Complete set of Chapter 8 Lessons are available.
Powerpoint lecture covering the following in a modern, concise format:
Specification Point 8.2 - Know that the universe is a large collection of billions of galaxies, that a galaxy is a large collection of billions of stars and that our solar system is in the Milky Way galaxy.
Specification Point 8.3 - Understand why gravitational field strength, g, varies and know that it is different on other planets and the Moon from that on the Earth.
Specification Point 8.4 - Explain that gravitational force causes moons to orbit planets, causes the planets to orbit the Sun, causes artificial satellites to orbit the Earth and causes comets to orbit the Sun.
Specification Point 8.5 - Describe the differences in the orbits of comets, moons and planets.
Specification Point 8.6 - Use the relationship between orbital speed, orbital radius and time period.
Complete set of Chapter 8 Lectures are available.
Huge bundle of resources. Second half of the Edexcel IGCSE Physics course covered in full.
Complete set of concise, modern presentations for Edexcel IGCSE Physics (4PH1) Chapter 5 - Solids, Liquids and Gases, Chapter 6 - Magnetism and Electromagnetism, Chapter 7 - Radioactivity and Chapter 8 - Astrophysics. Contains colour coded specification points with handmade vector graphics. 12 presentations included:
22 - Density and Pressure
23 - Changes of State
24 - Ideal Gases
25 - Magnetism
26 - Electromagnets Part 1
27 - Electromagnets Part 2
28 - Radioactivity Part 1
29 - Radioactivity Part 2
30 - Fission and Fusion
31 - The Universe
32 - The Evolution of Stars
33 - Cosmology
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Specification Point 8.7 - Understand how stars can be classified according to their colour.
Specification Point 8.8 - Know that a star’s colour is related to its surface temperature.
Specification Point 8.9 - Describe the evolution of stars of similar mass to the Sun through the following stages: nebula, star, red giant and white dwarf.
Specification Point 8.10 - Describe the evolution of stars with a mass larger than the Sun.
Complete set of Chapter 8 Lessons are available.
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Specification Point 7.1 - Use the following units: becquerel (Bq), centimetre (cm), hour (h), minute (min) and second (s).
Specification Point 7.2 - Describe the structure of an atom in terms of protons, neutrons and electrons.
Specification Point 7.3 - Know the terms atomic number, mass number and isotope.
Specification Point 7.4 - Know that alpha particles, beta particles and gamma rays are ionising radiations emitted from unstable nuclei in a random process.
Specification Point 7.5 - Describe the nature of alpha particles, beta particles, and gamma rays, and recall that they may be distinguished in terms of penetrating power and ability to ionise.
Specification Point 7.6 - Practical: investigate the penetration powers of different types of radiation using either radioactive sources or simulations.
Specification Point 7.7 - Describe the effects on the atomic and mass numbers of a nucleus of the emission of each of the four main types of radiation (alpha, beta, gamma and neutron radiation).
Specification Point 7.8 - Understand how to balance nuclear equations in terms of mass and charge.
Complete set of Chapter 7 Lessons are available.