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Speed and Velocity are Both How Fast You’re Going
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Acceleration is How Quickly Velocity is Changing
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Distance-Time Graphs Tell You How Far Something has Travelled
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Velocity-Time Graphs can have a Positive or Negative Gradient
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Gravity is the Force of Attraction Between All Masses
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Weight and Mass are Not the Same
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The Very Important Formula Relating Mass, Weight and Gravity
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There are Loads of Different Types of Force
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You Can Draw the Forces Acting on a Body
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Friction is Always There to Slow Things Down
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You can Investigate the Motion of a Toy Car on a Ramp
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You Could Play Around with the Experimental Set-up
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First Law - Balanced Forces Means No Change in Velocity
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Second Law - A Resultant Force Means Acceleration
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Resultant Force = Mass x Acceleration
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Resultant Force is Real Important - Especially for ‘F = ma’
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The Third Law - Reaction Forces
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Vectors Have Size and Direction - Scalar Quantities Only Have Size
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To Work Out Resultant Force You Need to Combine Vectors
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Moving Objects Can Reach a Terminal Velocity
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The Terminal Velocity of Falling Objects Depends on Their Shape and Area
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Hooke’s Law Says that Extension is Proportional to Force
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You Can Investigate Hooke’s Law with a Spring
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Hooke’s Law Stops Working when the Force is Great Enough
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A Material Can Return to its Original Shape After an Elastic Deformation
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Many Factors Affect Your Total Stopping Distance
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Thinking Distance
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Braking Distance
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Momentum = Mass x Velocity
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Momentum Before = Momentum After
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Forces Cause Changes in Momentum
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A Moment is the Turning Effect of a Force
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The Centre of Gravity Hangs Directly Below the Point of Suspensión
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A Question of Balance - Are the Moments Equal?
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Forces are Not Always Equal Across All Supports
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And if the Moments are Not Equal...
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The Properties of a Circuit
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The Standard Test Circuit
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Five Important Points
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Mains Supply is a.c, Battery Supply is d.c
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There’s a Formula Linking V and I
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Four Hideously Important Current-Voltage Graphs
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Light-Emitting Diodes are Really Useful
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Some Components Can Change Resistance
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Series Circuits - All or Nothing
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Parallel Circuits - Everything is Independent
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Charge Through a Circuit Depends on Current and Time
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When a Charge Drops Through a Voltage it Transfers Energy
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Appliances must be Earthed or Insulated
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Earthing and Fuses Prevent Fires and Shocks
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Circuit Breakers Have Some Advantages Over Fuses
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Resistors Get Hot When an Electric Current Passes Through Them
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Electrical Power and Fuse Ratings
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Electrical Appliances Transfer Energy Electrically
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Like Charges Repel, Opposite Charges Attract
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Conductors Conduct Charges - Insulators Don’t
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A Static Charge Cannot Move
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As Charge Builds Up, So Does the Voltage
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Investigating Static Electricity
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Gold-Leaf Electroscope
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Suspending a Charged Rod
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Van de Graaf Generators Make Your Hair Stand on End
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Inkjet Printer
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Photocopier
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Clothing Crackles
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Lightning
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The Fuel-Filling Nightmare
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All Waves Have Wavelength, Frequency, Amplitude and Speed
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Wave Speed = Frequency x Wavelength
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Waves Can Be Transverse or Longitudinal
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All Waves Transfer Energy and Information Without a Transferring Matter
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Two or More Waves Moving Together Have Wavefronts
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The Doppler Effect Makes Waves Longer or Shorter
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There are Seven Types of Electromagnetic (EM) Waves
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Radio Waves are Used Mainly for Communications
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Microwaves are Used for Satellite Communication and Heating Food
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Infrared Radiation is a Used for Heating and to Monitor Temperature
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Light Signals Can Travel Through Optical Fibres
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Visible Light is Also Useful for Photography
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Ultraviolet is Used in Fluorescent Lamps
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X-Rays Let Us See Inside Things
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Gamma Radiation Can be Very Useful For Sterilising Medical Equipment
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Gamma Radiation Can be Very Useful For Sterilising Food
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Some EM Radiation Can be Harmful to People
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Higher Frequency EM Radiation is Usually More Dangerous
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Reflection of Light Lets Us See Things
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Waves Can be Refracted
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Draw A Ray Diagram for a Refracted Wave
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Rays Passing Through a Glass Block are Refracted Twice
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Triangular Prisms Disperse White Light
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Every Transparent Material Has a Refractive Index
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Find the Refractive Index of Glass a Using a Glass Block
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Use Semicircular Blocks to Show Total Internal Reflection
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You Can Use Snell’s Law to find Critical Angles
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Optical Fibres and Prisms Use Total Internal Reflection
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Sound Travels as a Wave
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An Oscilloscope Can Display Sound Waves
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Loudness Increases with Amplitude
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The Higher the Frequency, the Higher the Pitch
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Find the Period of a Wave on an Oscilloscope to get its Frequency
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You Can Use an Oscilloscope to Measure the Speed of Sound
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Energy is Transferred Between Energy Stores
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There is a Principle of Conservation of Energy
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Most Energy Transfers Involve Some Losses, Often by Heating
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You can Calculate the Efficiency of an Energy Transfer
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How to Use the a Formula - Nothing to It
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We Generally Can’t do Anything Useful with Wasted Energy
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A Ball Rolling Up a Slope
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A Bat Hitting a Ball
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An Electric Kettle Boiling Water
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A Battery-Powered Toy Car
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A Bunsen Burner and Beaker
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The Thickness of the Arrow Represents the Amount of Energy
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Energy Transfer by Heating can Happen in Three Different Ways
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Thermal Radiation Involves Emission of Electromagnetic Waves
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Conduction - Occurs Mainly in Solids
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You Can do an Experiment to Demonstrate Conduction
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Convection of Heat - Liquids and Gases Only
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The Immersion Heater Example
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You Can See Convection Currents Using Coloured Crystals
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You Can Reduce the Rate of Energy Transfer
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You Can Investigate Emission of Thermal Radiation With a Leslie Cube
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‘Work Done’ is Just ‘Energy Transferred’
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And Another Formula to Learn
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Power is the ‘Rate of Doing Work’ - I.e How Much per Second
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Movement Means a Energy in an Object’s Kinetic Energy Store
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Raised Objects Store a Energy in Gravitational Potential Energy Stores
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Falling Objects Also Transfer Energy
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Non-Renewable Energy Resources Will Run Out One Day
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Most Power Stations Use Steam to Drive a Turbine
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Advantages of Fossil Fuels
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Disadvantages of Fossil Fuels
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Nuclear Reactors are Just Fancy Boilers
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Wind Farms - Lots of Wind Turbines
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Geothermal Power - Heat from Underground
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You Can Capture the Sun’s Energy Using Solar Cells
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Solar Water Heating Panels
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Cooking with Solar Power
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Wave Power - Lots of Little Wave Converters
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Tidal Barrages Generate Energy When the Tide Goes In and Out
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Hydroelectricity - Catching Rainwater
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Pumped Storage Gives Extra Supply Just When it’s Needed
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Density is Mass per Unit Volume
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You Can Find the Density of an Object from its Mass and Volume
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Pressure is Force per Unit Area
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Pressure Differences in Liquids and Gases Depends on Density
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Kinetic Theory Can Explain the Three States of Matter
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Evaporation is a Special Example of Changing States
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You Can Obtain a Temperature-Time Graph for Water
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Absolute Zero is as Cold as Stuff Can Get - 0 Kelvins
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Energy in Particles’ Kinetic Energy Stores is Proportional to Temperature
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Particle Theory Says Colliding Gas Particles Create Pressure
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At Constant Temperature ‘pV = Constant’
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At Constant Volume ‘p/T = Constant’
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Specific Heat Capacity Relates Temperature and Energy
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You can Find the Specific Heat Capacity of Water
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Magnets Produce Magnetic Fields
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Magnetic Field Patterns can be Seen Using Compasses
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Magnetism can be Induced
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A Current-Carrying Wire Creates a Magnetic Field
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The Magnetic Field Around a Straight Wire
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The Magnetic Field Around a Flat Circular Coil
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The Magnetic Field Around a Solenoid
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Magnetic Materials can be ‘Soft’ or ‘Hard’
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A Current in a Magnetic Field Experiences a Force
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Fleming’s Left-Hand Rule Tells You Which Way the Force Acts
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4 Factors which Speed up a Simple D.C Electric Motor
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Loudspeakers Work Because of the Motor Effect
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Electromagnetic Induction
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The Dynamo Effect - Move the Wire or the Magnet
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A.C Generators - Just Turn the Coil and There’s a Current
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Transformers Change the Voltage - but Only Alternating Voltages
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The Transformer Equation - Use it Either Way Up
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Transformers are Nearly 100% Efficient So ‘Power in = Power Out’
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Transformers Make Transmitting Mains Electricity More Efficient
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At the Centre of Every Atom is a Nucleus
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Isotopes are Atoms with Different Numbers of Neutrons
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Radioactive Decay is a Random Process
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Background Radiation is Everywhere All the Time
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Nuclear Radiation Causes Ionisation
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Alpha Particles are Helium Nuclei
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Beta Particles are Electrons
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Gamma Rays are Very a Short Wavelength EM Waves
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You Can Identify the Type by its Penetrating Power
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You can Investigate the Penetration of a Radiation
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Balancing Nuclear Equations
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The Radioactivity of a Sample Always a Decreases Over Time
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Measuring the Half-Life of a Sample Using a Graph
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Medical Tracers Use Beta or Gamma Radiation
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Radiation is Also Used to Treat Cancer
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Food and Equipment can be Sterilised Using Gamma Rays
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Radiation is Used in Industry for Tracers and Thickness Gauges
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Ionising Radiation Can Damage Cells and Tissues
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Exposure to Radiation is called Irradiation
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Contamination is Radioactive Particles Getting onto Objects
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Radioactive Waste is Difficult to Dispose of Safely
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Nuclear Power Stations use Nuclear Fission Chain Reactions
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Nuclear Reactors Have to Work-Safely
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Nuclear Fusion - Joining Small Nuclei
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We are Part of the Milky Way Galaxy
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Our Solar System has One Star - The Sun
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Gravity Provides the Force That Creates Orbits
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The Force due to Gravity Depends on Mass and Distance
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There are Different Types of Orbit
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You can Calculate Orbital Speeds
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Stars can be Classified by their Colours
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You can Compare Brightness using Absolute Magnitude
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You can See Different Types of Star on the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagara,
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Waves are Affected by the Motion of the Source
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Light from Galaxies is Red-shifted
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Calculating Red-shift
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Red-shift Suggests the Universe is Expanding
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There’s Microwave Radiation from All Directions
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This Evidenced Suggests the Universe Started with a Bang
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Microwaves
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Infrared
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Ultraviolet
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Gamma
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The Transformer Equation - Use it Either Way Up
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Stars 1.
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Stars 4.
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Burgess mini test
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