mydrasa | Edexcel - Physics

1: Concept-led approach

1.1: Working as a Physicist

1.1.1: The distinction between base and derived quantities and their SI units

1.1.2: Practical skills and techniques for both familiar and unfamiliar experiments

1.1.3: Values for physical quantities and use their estimate to solve problems

1.1.4: The limitations of physical measurement

1.1.5: Communicate information and ideas in appropriate ways

1.1.6: Applications and implications of science

1.1.7: The role of the scientific community

1.1.8: The ways in which society uses science to inform decision making

1.2: Mechanics

1.2.1: The equations for uniformly accelerated motion in one dimension

1.2.2: Displacement-time, velocity-time and acceleration-time graphs

1.2.3: The physical quantities derived from the slopes and areas of displacement-time

1.2.4: Scalar and vector quantities

1.2.5: Resolve a vector into two components at right angles to each other

1.2.6: The resultant of two coplanar vectors at any angle to each other by drawing

1.2.7: The independence of vertical and horizontal motion

1.2.8: Free-body force diagrams

1.2.9: The equation ΣF = ma

1.2.10: The acceleration of a freely-falling object

1.2.11: Newton’s third law of motion

1.2.12: Momentum is defined as p = mv

1.2.13: The principle of conservation of linear momentum

1.2.14: Use the equation for the moment of a force

1.2.15: The concept of centre of gravity of an extended body

1.2.16: The equation for work ΔW = FΔs

1.2.17: kinetic energy of a body

1.2.18: The difference in gravitational potential energy near the Earth’s surface

1.2.19: The principle of conservation of energy

1.2.20: The equations relating power, time and energy transferred or work done

1.2.21: Efficiency equations

1.3: Electric Circuits

1.3.1: Electric current is the rate of flow of charged particles

1.3.2: The equation V=W/Q

1.3.3: Resistance

1.3.4: The distribution of current in a circuit

1.3.5: The distribution of potential differences in a circuit

1.3.6: Derive the equations for combining resistances in series and parallel

1.3.7: The equations P = VI and W = VIt

1.3.8: Current-potential difference graphs for components

1.3.9: The equation R= ρl/A

1.3.10: The electrical resistivity of a material

1.3.11: The large range of resistivities of different materials

1.3.12: The potential along a uniform current-carrying wire

1.3.13: The principles of a potential divider circuit

1.3.14: Analyse potential divider circuits

1.3.15: Electromotive force (e.m.f.)

1.3.16: The e.m.f. and internal resistance of an electrical cell

1.3.17: Changes of resistance with temperature may be modelled

1.3.18: Changes of resistance with illumination may be modelled

1.4: Materials

1.4.1: p=m/v

1.4.2: The equation for viscous drag (Stokes’ Law)

1.4.3: Falling-ball method to determine the viscosity of a liquid.

1.4.4: Hooke’s law equation

1.4.5: (tensile or compressive) stress and strain

1.4.6: Force-extension and force-compression graphs

1.4.7: Tensile or compressive stress-strain graphs

1.4.8: The Young modulus of a material

1.4.9: The elastic strain energy in a deformed material sample

1.5: Waves and Particle Nature of Light

1.5.1: Amplitude, frequency, period, speed and wavelength

1.5.2: The wave equation v = fλ

1.5.3: Longitudinal waves

1.5.4: Transverse waves

1.5.5: Transverse and longitudinal waves

1.5.6: The speed of sound in air

1.5.7: Wavefront, coherence, path difference, superposition, interference and phase

1.5.8: The relationship between phase difference and path difference

1.5.9: Standing/stationary wave

1.5.10: The equation for the speed of a transverse wave on a string

1.5.11: The effects of length, tension and mass per unit length

1.5.12: The equation intensity of radiation

1.5.13: At the interface between medium 1 and medium 2 n1sin θ1= n2 sin θ2

1.5.14: Critical angle

1.5.15: Predict whether total internal reflection will occur at an interface

1.5.16: The refractive index of a solid material

1.5.17: Focal length of converging and diverging lenses

1.5.18: Use ray diagrams to trace the path of light

1.5.19: The equation power of a lens P=1/f

1.5.20: For thin lenses in combination P = P1+P2+P3+…

1.5.21: Real image and virtual image

1.5.22: 1/u +1/v = 1/f for a thin converging or diverging lens

1.5.23: Magnification = image height/object height

1.5.24: Plane polarisation

1.5.25: Diffraction

1.5.26: Diffraction grating

1.5.27: The wavelength of light from a laser or other light source

1.5.28: Diffraction experiments provide evidence for the wave nature of electrons

1.5.29: de Broglie equation

1.5.30: Waves can be transmitted and reflected at an interface between media

1.5.31: Pulse-echo technique can provide information about the position of an object

1.5.32: The behaviour of electromagnetic radiation

1.5.33: The equation E = hf

1.5.34: The absorption of a photon can result in the emission of a photoelectron

1.5.35: Threshold frequency and work function

1.5.36: The electronvolt (eV)

1.5.37: Photoelectric effect

1.5.38: Atomic line spectra

1.6: Further Mechanics

1.6.1: The equation impulse

1.6.2: The force exerted on an object and its change of momentum

1.6.3: Conservation of linear momentum to problems in two dimensions

1.6.4: Collisions between small spheres

1.6.5: Determine whether a collision is elastic or inelastic

1.6.6: The kinetic energy of a non-relativistic particle

1.6.7: Angular displacement in radians and in degrees

1.6.8: Angular velocity

1.6.9: Centripetal acceleration

1.6.10: Centripetal force

1.6.11: The equations for centripetal force

1.7: Electric and Magnetic Fields

1.7.1: Electric field (force field)

1.7.2: Electric field strength

1.7.3: The force between two charges

1.7.4: The electric field due to a point charge

1.7.5: The relation between electric field and electric potential

1.7.6: Electric field between parallel plates

1.7.7: Radial field

1.7.8: Radial and uniform electric fields

1.7.9: Capacitance

1.7.10: The energy stored by a capacitor

1.7.11: The significance of the time constant RC

1.7.12: The potential difference (p.d.) across a capacitor

1.7.13: Exponential discharge in a resistor-capacitor circuit

1.7.14: Magnetic flux density B, flux φ and flux linkage Nφ

1.7.15: Fleming’s left-hand rule to charged particles moving in a magnetic field

1.7.16: Fleming’s left-hand rule to current carrying conductors in a magnetic field

1.7.17: The factors affecting the e.m.f. induced in a coil

1.7.18: e.m.f. induced in a coil when there is a change of current

1.7.19: Use Lenz’s law to predict the direction of an induced e.m.f.

1.7.20: Faraday’s law

1.7.21: Frequency, period, peak value and root-mean- square value

1.7.22: Use the equations Vrms=V0/√2 and I rms=I0/√2

1.8: Nuclear and Particle Physics

1.8.1: Nucleon number (mass number) and proton number (atomic number)

1.8.2: Large-angle alpha particle scattering

1.8.3: Electrons are released in the process of thermionic emission

1.8.4: The role of electric and magnetic fields in particle accelerators

1.8.5: Charged particle in a magnetic field

1.8.6: Conservation of charge, energy and momentum to interactions between particles

1.8.7: High energies are required to investigate the structure of nucleons

1.8.8: The creation and annihilation of matter and antimatter particles

1.8.9: MeV and GeV (energy)

1.8.10: The relativistic increase in particle lifetime is significant

1.8.11: The standard quark-lepton model particles

1.8.12: Every particle has a corresponding antiparticle

1.8.13: Laws of conservation of charge

1.8.14: Particle equations

1.9: Thermodynamics

1.9.1: Use the equations ΔE = mcΔθ and ΔE = LΔm

1.9.2: Calibrate a thermistor in a potential divider circuit as a thermostat

1.9.3: Determine the specific latent heat of a phase change

1.9.4: The concept of internal energy

1.9.5: The concept of absolute zero

1.9.6: The kinetic theory model

1.9.7: The equation pV = NkT for an ideal gas

1.9.8: The relationship between pressure and volume of a gas at fixed temperature.

1.9.9: Use the equation 1/2m<c2>=3/2kT

1.9.10: Black body radiator

1.9.11: The Stefan-Boltzmann law equation

1.9.12: Wien’s law equation

1.10: Space

1.10.1: Intensity equation

1.10.2: Trigonometric parallax

1.10.3: Astronomical distances can be determined using measurements of intensity

1.10.4: Simple Hertzsprung-Russell diagram

1.10.5: The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram related to the life cycle of stars

1.10.6: The movement of a source of waves

1.10.7: Redshift for a source of electromagnetic radiation

1.10.8: The controversy over the age and ultimate fate of the universe

1.11: Nuclear Radiation

1.11.1: Nuclear binding energy

1.11.2: The atomic mass unit

1.11.3: The processes of nuclear fusion and fission

1.11.4: The mechanism of nuclear fusion

1.11.5: Background radiation

1.11.6: The nature, penetration, ionising ability and range

1.11.7: Nuclear equations

1.11.8: The absorption of gamma radiation by lead

1.11.9: The spontaneous and random nature of nuclear decay

1.11.10: Half-lives of radioactive isotopes

1.12: Gravitational Fields

1.12.1: Gravitational field (force field)

1.12.2: Gravitational field strength

1.12.3: Newton’s law of universal gravitation

1.12.4: Gravitational field due to a point mass

1.12.5: Radial gravitational field

1.12.6: Electric fields compared with gravitational fields

1.12.7: Orbital motion

1.13: Oscillations

1.13.1: Simple harmonic motion

1.13.2: Simple harmonic oscillator

1.13.3: Equations for a simple harmonic oscillator

1.13.4: Displacement–time graph for an object oscillating

1.13.5: Velocity–time graph for an oscillating object

1.13.6: Resonance

1.13.7: The value of an unknown mass

1.13.8: Damped and undamped oscillating systems

1.13.9: The distinction between free and forced oscillations

1.13.10: The amplitude of a forced oscillation

1.13.11: Damping and the plastic deformation of ductile materials
2: Salters Horners approach

2.1: Working as a Physicist

2.1.1: The distinction between base and derived quantities and their SI units (salters)

2.1.2: Practical skills for both familiar and unfamiliar experiments

2.1.3: Estimate values for physical quantities

2.1.4: The limitations of physical measurement (salters)

2.1.5: Communicate information and ideas in appropriate ways (salters)

2.1.6: Applications and implications of science (salters)

2.1.7: Validating new knowledge and ensuring integrity

2.1.8: The ways in which society uses science to inform decision making (salters)

2.2: Higher, Faster, Stronger (HFS)

2.2.1: The equations for uniformly accelerated motion in one dimension

2.2.2: Displacement-time, velocity-time and acceleration-time graphs

2.2.3: Physical quantities

2.2.4: Scalar and vector quantities (salters)

2.2.5: Resolve a vector into two components at right angles to each other (salters)

2.2.6: The resultant of two coplanar vectors

2.2.7: The independence of vertical and horizontal motion of a projectile

2.2.8: Free-body force diagrams (salters)

2.2.9: The equation ΣF = ma ( salters)

2.2.10: Gravitational field strength (salters)

2.2.11: Acceleration of a freely-falling object

2.2.12: Newton’s third law of motion ( salters)

2.2.13: Momentum

2.2.14: The principle of conservation of linear momentum ( salters)

2.2.15: The equation for the moment of a force

2.2.16: The concept of centre of gravity of an extended body (salters)

2.2.17: Use the equation for work ΔW = FΔs

2.2.18: The kinetic energy of a body

2.2.19: The difference in gravitational potential energy near the Earth’s surface

2.2.20: The principle of conservation of energy (salters)

2.2.21: Power, time and energy transferred or work done

2.2.22: The equations of efficiency

2.3: The Sound of Music (MUS)

2.3.1: Amplitude, frequency, period, speed and wavelength (salters)

2.3.2: The wave equation v = fλ (salters)

2.3.3: Longitudinal waves (salters)

2.3.4: Transverse waves (salters)

2.3.5: Transverse and longitudinal waves (salters)

2.3.6: The speed of sound in air (salters)

2.3.7: Wavefront, coherence, path difference, superposition, interference

2.3.8: The relationship between phase difference and path difference (salters)

2.3.9: Standing/stationary wave (salters)

2.3.10: The equation for the speed of a transverse wave on a string (salters)

2.3.11: The effects of length, tension and mass per unit length

2.3.12: The behaviour of electromagnetic radiation (salters)

2.3.13: The photon energy related to the wave frequency

2.3.14: Atomic line spectra (salters)

2.4: Good Enough to Eat (EAT)

2.4.1: The equation of density

2.4.2: The relationship upthrust

2.4.3: The equation for viscous drag

2.4.4: The viscosity of a liquid

2.4.5: The Hooke’s law equation

2.4.6: Force-extension and force-compression graphs

2.4.7: At the interface between medium 1 and medium 2 n1sinθ1= n2sinθ2

2.4.8: Critical angle (salters)

2.4.9: Total internal reflection

2.4.10: The refractive index of a solid material (salters)

2.4.11: Plane polarisation (salters)

2.5: Technology in Space (SPC)

2.5.1: Electric current is the rate of flow of charged particles (salters)

2.5.2: The equation V=W/Q (salters)

2.5.3: Resistance (salters)

2.5.4: The distribution of current in a circuit is a consequence of charge conservation

2.5.5: The distribution of potential differences in a circuit (salters)

2.5.6: The equations for combining resistances in series and parallel

2.5.7: The equations P = VI, W = VIt

2.5.8: Current-potential difference graphs for components

2.5.9: Electromotive force (e.m.f.) (salters)

2.5.10: The e.m.f. and internal resistance of an electrical cell (salters)

2.5.11: Changes of resistance with temperature may be modelled (salters)

2.5.12: Changes of resistance with illumination may be modelled (salters)

2.5.13: Intensity of radiation

2.5.14: Threshold frequency and work function (salters)

2.5.15: Use the electronvolt (eV) to express small energies

2.5.16: The photoelectric effect

2.6: Digging up the Past (DIG)

2.6.1: The equation R=ρl/A

2.6.2: The electrical resistivity of a material (salters)

2.6.3: The large range of resistivities of different materials (salters)

2.6.4: The potential along a uniform current-carrying wire varies with the distance

2.6.5: The principles of a potential divider circuit (salters)

2.6.6: Potential divider circuits

2.6.7: Diffraction (salters)

2.6.8: Diffraction grating (salters)

2.6.9: The wavelength of light from a laser or other light source (salters)

2.6.10: Diffraction experiments provide evidence for the wave nature of electrons

2.6.11: de Broglie equation (salters)

2.7: Spare-Part Surgery (SUR)

2.7.1: Use the relationships between tensile and compressive stress and strain

2.7.2: Tensile or compressive stress-strain graphs (salters)

2.7.3: The Young modulus of a material (salters)

2.7.4: The elastic strain energy Eel in a deformed material sample

2.7.5: Focal length of converging and diverging lenses ( salters)

2.7.6: Ray diagrams

2.7.7: The equation power of a lens

2.7.8: Thin lenses in combination

2.7.9: Real image and virtual image (salters)

2.7.10: Thin converging or diverging lens with the real-is-positive convention

2.7.11: Magnification = image height/object height (salters)

2.7.12: Waves can be transmitted and reflected at an interface

2.7.13: Pulse-echo technique can provide information about the position of an object

2.8: Transport on Track (TRA)

2.8.1: The equation impulse (Newton’s second law of motion)

2.8.2: The force exerted on an object and its change of momentum

2.8.3: Collision is elastic or inelastic

2.8.4: Capacitance (salters)

2.8.5: Charge and discharge curves fo resistor–capacitor circuits

2.8.6: Oscilloscope

2.8.7: Exponential discharge in a resistor-capacitor circuit (salters)

2.8.8: Magnetic flux density B, flux φ and flux linkage Nφ (salters)

2.8.9: Fleming’s left-hand rule to current carrying conductors

2.8.10: The factors affecting the e.m.f. induced in a coil (salters)

2.8.11: e.m.f. induced in a coil when there is a change of current (salters)

2.8.12: Faraday’s law (salters)

2.8.13: Frequency, period, peak value and root-mean- square value (salters)

2.8.14: Equations Vrms=V0/√2 and Irms=I0/√2

2.9: The Medium is the Message (MDM)

2.9.1: Electric field (force field)

2.9.2: Electric field strength (salters)

2.9.3: Electric field between parallel plates (salters)

2.9.4: Radial and uniform electric fields (salters)

2.9.5: The equation for the energy stored by a capacitor

2.9.6: Electrons are released in the process of thermionic emission (salters)

2.10: Probing the Heart of Matter (PRO)

2.10.1: Applying conservation of linear momentum to problems in two dimensions

2.10.2: Collisions between small spheres

2.10.3: Kinetic energy of a non-relativistic particle

2.10.4: Angular displacement in radians and in degrees (salters

2.10.5: Angular velocity (salters)

2.10.6: The equations for centripetal acceleration

2.10.7: Circular motion

2.10.8: The equations for centripetal force (salters)

2.10.9: The force between two charges (salters)

2.10.10: The electric field due to a point charge (salters)

2.10.11: Radial field (salters)

2.10.12: Fleming’s left-hand rule to charged particles

2.10.13: Nucleon number (mass number) and proton number (atomic number)

2.10.14: Large-angle alpha particle scattering (salters)

2.10.15: The role of electric and magnetic fields in particle accelerators (salters)

2.10.16: Charged particle in a magnetic field (salters)

2.10.17: Conservation of charge, energy and momentum

2.10.18: Energies are required to investigate the structure of nucleons

2.10.19: The creation and annihilation of matter and antimatter particles

2.10.20: MeV and GeV (energy)

2.10.21: The relativistic increase in particle lifetime is significant (salters)

2.10.22: The standard quark-lepton model particles (salters)

2.10.23: Every particle has a corresponding antiparticle (salters)

2.10.24: Laws of conservation of charge, baryon number and lepton number

2.10.25: Particle equations (salters)

2.11: Build or Bust? (BLD)

2.11.1: The equations ΔE = mcΔθ and ΔE = LΔm

2.11.2: Calibrate a thermistor in a potential divider circuit as a thermostat

2.11.3: The specific latent heat of a phase change

2.11.4: The condition for simple harmonic motion

2.11.5: Simple harmonic oscillator (salters)

2.11.6: Equations for a simple harmonic oscillator (salters)

2.11.7: Displacement–time graph for an object oscillating (salters)

2.11.8: The value of an unknown mass (salters)

2.11.9: Conservation of energy to damped and undamped oscillating systems

2.11.10: Free and forced oscillations

2.11.11: The amplitude of a forced oscillation changes

2.11.12: Damping and the plastic deformation of ductile materials (salters)

2.12: Reach for the Stars (STA)

2.12.1: The concept of internal energy (salters)

2.12.2: The concept of absolute zero (salters)

2.12.3: Kinetic theory model

2.12.4: Ideal gas

2.12.5: The relationship between pressure and volume of a gas at fixed temperature.

2.12.6: The equation 1/2m<c2>=3/2 kT

2.12.7: Black body radiator (salters)

2.12.8: The Stefan-Boltzmann law equation (salters)

2.12.9: Wien’s law equation

2.12.10: The equation I=L /4πd2

2.12.11: Astronomical distances can be determined using trigonometric parallax

2.12.12: Astronomical distances can be determined using measurements of intensity

2.12.13: Hertzsprung-Russell diagram

2.12.14: The life cycle of stars

2.12.15: The movement of a source of waves relative to an observer/detector

2.12.16: The equations for redshift

2.12.17: The controversy over the age and ultimate fate of the universe (salters)

2.12.18: The concept of nuclear binding energy

2.12.19: The atomic mass unit (u)

2.12.20: The processes of nuclear fusion and fission (salters)

2.12.21: The mechanism of nuclear fusion (salters)

2.12.22: Background radiation (salters)

2.12.23: The relationships between the nature, penetration, ionising ability and range

2.12.24: Nuclear equations given the relevant particle symbols

2.12.25: The absorption of gamma radiation by lead (salters)

2.12.26: The spontaneous and random nature of nuclear decay (salters)

2.12.27: The half-lives of radioactive isotopes

2.12.28: Gravitational field

2.12.29: Gravitational field strength definition

2.12.30: Newton’s law of universal gravitation (salters)

2.12.31: The gravitational field due to a point mass

2.12.32: Radial gravitational field (salters)

2.12.33: Electric fields with gravitational fields

2.12.34: Newton’s laws of motion and universal gravitation to orbital motion

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