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Revision notes for 5.1.3 Acids, Bases and Buffers from the Rates, Equilibrium and pH Topic 5.1 for Year 2 A-Level OCR A Chemistry. These notes contain all the specification knowledge and examples required for this topic. They allow a strong understanding of content to achieve a high grade. The word document contains 11 pages of revision notes.
These are the notes I created as an A* chemistry student.
These notes include:
• Brønsted–Lowry acids and bases
• pH and H+ – including: strong acids, weak acids and strong bases.
• Buffers: action, uses and calculations
• Neutralisation
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Revision notes for 5.1.2 How Far? from the Rates, Equilibrium and pH Topic 5.1 for Year 2 A-Level OCR A Chemistry. These notes contain all the specification knowledge and examples required for this topic. They allow a strong understanding of content to achieve a high grade. The word document contains 4 pages of revision notes.
These are the notes I created as an A* chemistry student.
These notes include:
• The equilibrium constant, Kc
• The equilibrium constant, Kp
• Conditions affecting Kc and Kp
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Revision notes for 5.1.1 How Fast? from the Rates, Equilibrium and pH Topic 5.1 for Year 2 A-Level OCR A Chemistry. These notes contain all the specification knowledge and examples required for this topic. They allow a strong understanding of content to achieve a high grade. The word document contains 8 pages of revision notes.
These are the notes I created as an A* chemistry student.
These notes include:
• Orders, rate equations and rate constants
• Rate graphs and orders
• Rate-determining step
• Effect of temperature on rate constants – including: the Arrhenius equation.
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Complete revision notes for AS-Level and Year 1 A-Level OCR A Chemistry Module 4. These notes contain all the specification knowledge required, examples and required practicals for this module. They allow a strong understanding of content to achieve a high grade.
These are the notes I created as an A* chemistry student.
This bundle includes:
• 4.1 Basic Concepts and Hydrocarbons
• 4.2 Alcohols, Haloalkanes and Analysis
• Required Practical 5: Synthesis of an Organic Liquid
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Complete revision notes for AS-Level and Year 1 A-Level OCR A Chemistry Module 3. These notes contain all the specification knowledge required, examples and required practicals for this module. They allow a strong understanding of content to achieve a high grade.
These are the notes I created as an A* chemistry student.
This bundle includes:
• 3.1 The Periodic Table
• 3.2 Physical Chemistry
• Skills from required practical 3: Enthalpy Determination.
• Required Practical 4: Qualitative analysis of ions
• Required Practical 7: Qualitative analysis of organic functional groups
• Skills from required practical 9: Rates of Reaction – continuous monitoring method.
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Complete revision notes for AS-Level and Year 1 A-Level OCR A Chemistry Module 2. These notes contain all the specification knowledge required, examples and required practicals for this module. They allow a strong understanding of content to achieve a high grade.
These are the notes I created as an A* chemistry student.
This bundle includes:
• 2.1 Atoms and reactions
• 2.2 Electrons, bonding and structure
• Required Practical 2: Acid-base Titration
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Revision notes for the Alcohols, Haloalkanes and Analysis Topic 4.2 for AS-Level and Year 1 A-Level OCR A Chemistry. These notes contain all the specification knowledge required, examples and required practicals for this topic. They allow a strong understanding of content to achieve a high grade. The word documents contain a total of 10 pages of revision notes.
These are the notes I created as an A* chemistry student.
These notes include:
• Alcohols – including: properties and reactions.
• Haloalkanes – including: reactions and environmental concerns from use of organohalogen compounds.
• Organic synthesis
• Analytical techniques – including: infrared spectroscopy, mass spectrometry and combined techniques.
• Required Practical 5: Synthesis of an Organic Liquid
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Revision notes for the Basic Concepts and Hydrocarbons Topic 4.1 for AS-Level and Year 1 A-Level OCR A Chemistry. These notes contain all the specification knowledge and examples required for this topic. They allow a strong understanding of content to achieve a high grade. The word document contains 10 pages of revision notes.
These are the notes I created as an A* chemistry student.
These notes include:
• Basic concepts of organic chemistry
• Alkanes – including: properties and reactions.
• Alkenes – including: properties, stereoisomerism, reactions and polymers.
• Waste polymers and alternatives
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Revision notes for the Physical Chemistry Topic 3.2 for AS-Level and Year 1 A-Level OCR A Chemistry. These notes contain all the specification knowledge required, examples and practical skills for this topic. They allow a strong understanding of content to achieve a high grade. The word document contains 10 pages of revision notes.
These are the notes I created as an A* chemistry student.
These notes include:
• Enthalpy changes – including: reaction, formation, combustion, neutralisation, bond enthalpies and Hess’ law and enthalpy cycles.
• Reaction rates – including: collision theory, catalysts and the Boltzmann distribution.
• Chemical equilibrium – including: dynamic equilibrium, le Chatelier’s principle and the equilibrium constant, Kc.
• Skills from required practical 3: Enthalpy Determination.
• Skills from required practical 9: Rates of Reaction – continuous monitoring method.
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Revision notes for the Periodic Table Topic 3.1 for AS-Level and Year 1 A-Level OCR A Chemistry. These notes contain all the specification knowledge required, examples and required practicals for this topic. They allow a strong understanding of content to achieve a high grade. The word documents contain a total of 9 pages of revision notes.
These are the notes I created as an A* chemistry student.
These notes include:
• Periodicity
• Group 2
• The halogens
• Qualitative analysis
• Required Practical 4: Qualitative analysis of ions
• Required Practical 7: Qualitative analysis of organic functional groups
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Revision notes for the Atoms and Reactions Topic 2.2 for AS-Level and Year 1 A-Level OCR A Chemistry. These notes contain all the specification knowledge and examples required for this topic. They allow a strong understanding of content to achieve a high grade. The word document contains 10 pages of revision notes.
These are the notes I created as an A* chemistry student.
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• Electron structure
• Ionic bonding
• Covalent bonding
• The shapes of simple molecules and ions
• Electronegativity and bond polarity
• Intermolecular forces
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Revision notes for the Atoms and Reactions Topic 2.1 for AS-Level and Year 1 A-Level OCR A Chemistry. These notes contain all the specification knowledge required, examples and required practicals for this topic. They allow a strong understanding of content to achieve a high grade. The word documents contain a total of 12 pages of revision notes.
These are the notes I created as an A* chemistry student.
These notes include:
• Atomic structure and isotopes
• Compounds, formulae and equations
• Amount of substance
• Acids
• Redox
• Required Practical 2: Acid-base Titration
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Revision notes for the Populations and Sustainability Topic 6.3.2 for A-Level OCR A Biology. These notes contain all the specification knowledge and examples required for this topic. They allow a strong understanding of content to achieve a high grade. The word document contains 9 pages of revision notes.
These are the notes I created and used to obtain an A* at A Level.
These notes include:
• Population size
• Interactions between populations
• Conservation and preservation
• Sustainable management of ecosystems
• Balance the conflict between conservation and human needs – including: Maasai Mara in Kenya, Terai region in Nepal and peat bogs in the UK.
• Controlling the effects of human activities – including: the Galapagos Islands, Antarctica, Snowdonia National Park and the Lake District
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Revision notes for the Ecosystems Topic 6.3.1 for A-Level OCR A Biology. These notes contain all the specification knowledge required, examples and practical skills for this topic. They allow a strong understanding of content to achieve a high grade. The word document contains 9 pages of revision notes.
These are the notes I created and used to obtain an A* at A Level.
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• Ecosystems
• Transfer of biomass and biomass calculations
• Manipulating the transfer of biomass
• The nitrogen cycle
• The carbon cycle
• Succession
• Studying ecosystems
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Revision notes for the Cloning and Biotechnology Topic 6.2.1 for A-Level OCR A Biology. These notes contain all the specification knowledge required, examples and required practicals for this topic. They allow a strong understanding of content to achieve a high grade. The word document contains 11 pages of revision notes.
These are the notes I created and used to obtain an A* at A Level.
These notes include:
• Plant cloning
• Animal cloning
• Food production
• Drug production
• Immobilised enzymes
• Required practical 7: Microbial techniques
• Practical: Factors affecting microorganisms growth
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Revision notes for the Cellular Control Topic 6.1.1 for A-Level OCR A Biology. These notes contain all the specification knowledge and examples required for this topic. They allow a strong understanding of content to achieve a high grade. The word document contains 8 pages of revision notes.
These are the notes I created and used to obtain an A* at A Level.
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• Gene mutations
• Control of gene expression: transcriptional control
• Control of gene expression: post-transcriptional control
• Control of gene expression: post-translational control
• Genetic control of the body plan
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Revision notes for the Plant and Animal Responses Topic 5.1.5 for A-Level OCR A Biology. These notes contain all the specification knowledge required, examples and required practicals for this topic. They allow a strong understanding of content to achieve a high grade. The word document contains 17 pages of revision notes.
These are the notes I created and used to obtain an A* at A Level.
These notes include:
• Plant responses to the environment
• Controlling plant growth
• Tropisms
• Experimental evidence for plant hormones
• Investigating plant hormones and tropisms
• Roles of plant hormones
• Commercial use of plant hormones
• The mammalian nervous system
• The brain
• Reflex actions
• Coordinating responses
• Controlling heart rate
• Muscle structure
• The action of neuromuscular junctions
• The sliding filament hypothesis
• Required Practical 11: Investigation into the Measurement of Plant or Animal Responses
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Revision notes for the Respiration Topic 5.2.2 for A-Level OCR A Biology. These notes contain all the specification knowledge required, examples and practical skills for this topic. They allow a strong understanding of content to achieve a high grade. The word document contains 9 pages of revision notes.
These are the notes I created and used to obtain an A* at A Level.
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• The need for cellular respiration
• The structure of a mitochondrion
• Glycolysis
• The Link reaction
• The Krebs cycle
• Oxidative phosphorylation and the chemiosmotic theory
• Anaerobic respiration
• Respiratory substrates
• Practical investigations into aerobic and anaerobic respiration rates in yeast
• Practical investigations into factors affecting the rate of respiration using a respirometer
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Revision notes for the Photosynthesis Topic 5.2.1 for A-Level OCR A Biology. These notes contain all the specification knowledge required, examples and required practicals for this topic. They allow a strong understanding of content to achieve a high grade. The word document contains 8 pages of revision notes.
These are the notes I created and used to obtain an A* at A Level.
These notes include:
• The interrelationship between the process of photosynthesis and respiration • The structure of a chloroplast
• Photosynthetic pigments and the light harvesting stage
• The light dependent stage (phosphorylation)
• The light independent stage (Calvin cycle)
• Factors of photosynthesis
• Practical investigations into the effect of factors on the rate of photosynthesis
• Required Practical 6: Chromatography
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Revision notes for the Plant Responses Topic 5.1.5 for A-Level OCR A Biology. These notes contain all the specification knowledge required, examples and required practicals for this topic. They allow a strong understanding of content to achieve a high grade. The word document contains 7 pages of revision notes.
These are the notes I created and used to obtain an A* at A Level.
These notes include:
• Plant responses to the environment
• Controlling plant growth
• Tropisms
• Experimental evidence for plant hormones
• Investigating plant hormones and tropisms
• Roles of plant hormones
• Commercial use of plant hormones
• Required Practical 11: Investigation into the Measurement of Plant or Animal Responses
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