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Topic 1 - Velocity and Acceleration
What is the difference between sp...,
What are speed and velocity measu...,
What is the formula for average s...
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Topic 1 - Distance-Time and Velocity-Time Graphs
What does the gradient describe o...,
What does a flat section mean on ...,
What does a steeper graph mean on...
14
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Topic 1 - Mass, Weight, Gravity
What are the 3 important effects ...,
What is mass,
What is weight caused by
9
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Topic 1 - Forces and Friction
What is a force simply,
Where does reaction force act,
Where does electrostatic force act
9
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Topic 1 - 3 Laws of Motion
What is the first law of motion,
What is the second law of motion,
What five forms can acceleration ...
5
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Topic 1 - Combining Forces
What is a vector quantity,
What is a scalar quantity,
Is force vector or scalar
4
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Topic 1 - Terminal Velocity
What is a terminal velocity,
What happens when an object is re...
2
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Topic 1 - Hooke's Law
What is hookes law,
What happens to extension as forc...,
What is the elastic limit
4
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Topic 1 - Stopping Distance
What is the formula for stopping ...,
What is thinking distance,
What is thinking distance effecte...
6
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Topic 1 - Momentum and Collisions (Paper 2)
What is the equation for momentum,
What type of quantity is momentum,
What is the conservation of momentum
5
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Topic 1 - Turning Effects and Centre of Gravity (Paper 2)
What is the formula for a moment,
How would you get the maximum moment,
What is the centre of gravity
4
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Topic 1 - Principle of Moments (Paper 2)
What is the principle of moments,
What are the forces on each suppo...,
What happens if the moments are n...
3
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Topic 2 - Circuits
What is current,
What carries charge in a circuit,
Why would a current not flow thro...
20
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Topic 2 - Resistance
What is the formula for voltage,
What does the gradient determine ...,
What happens if the gradient beco...
7
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Topic 2 - LDRs, Thermistors and LEDs
What is a light emitting diode led,
What is the difference between a ...,
What is a light dependent resisto...
6
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Topic 2 - Series and Parallel Circuits
How are series circuits set up,
What happens in a series circuit ...,
What happens if you add more cell...
13
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Topic 2 - Charge, Voltage and Energy Change
What is the formula for charge,
What is current,
What is charge measure in
9
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Topic 2 - Electrical Safety
What are the wires in a plug called,
What is the voltage of a live wire,
What is the voltage of a neutral ...
9
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Topic 2 - Energy and Power in Circuits
What happens when there is an ele...,
Why is the resistor heated up,
What does heating up the resistor...
12
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Topic 2 - Static Electricity (Paper 2)
What do opposite charges do,
What do like charges do,
What materials conduct charge
6
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Topic 3 - Basics of Waves
What is wavelength,
What is frequency f,
What is frequency measured in
15
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Topic 3 - Wave Behaviour and EM Waves
What are wavefronts,
What is the distance between each...,
What is the frequency and wavelen...
9
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Topic 3 - Uses of EM Waves
What are radio waves,
Why can long wave radio be transm...,
Why can shortwave 10m 100m radio ...
20
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Topic 3 - Dangers of EM Waves
How are some em radiations harmless,
How are other types of em radiati...,
How do effects of em radiation de...
11
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Topic 3 - Reflection and Refraction
What is a diffuse reflection,
What is a clear reflection,
What is the law of reflection
11
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Topic 3 - Refractive Index
What is the refractive index of a...,
What is the equation for refracti...,
What is snells law
9
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Topic 3 - Sound Waves
What type of waves are sound waves,
What are sound waves caused by,
When are sound waves reflected
5
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Topic 3 - Sound Waves (Paper 2)
What do sound wave recievers do,
What is an example of a sound wav...,
What do microphones do
9
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Topic 4 - Conservation of Energy
What are the 8 main energy stores...,
What is an example of an object w...,
What is an example of an object w...
18
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Topic 4 - Efficiency
What is the equation for efficiency,
Where is wasted energy normally t...
2
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Topic 4 - Energy Transfer
What are the energy transfers in,
What are the energy transfers in,
What are the energy transfers in
5
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Topic 4 - Sankey Diagrams
The thicker the arrow of a sankey...,
What do the smaller arrows branch...
2
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Topic 4 - Transfer By Heating
How can energy be transferred by ...,
What is thermal radiation,
What do conduction and convection...
17
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Topic 4 - Convection
What is the definition of convection,
How does convection work in an im...,
How can you demonstrate convection
3
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Topic 4 - Non-Renewable Energy (Paper 2)
What are the non renewable fuels,
What properties do non renewable ...,
What are the energy transfers in ...
8
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Topic 4 - Work and Power
When a force moves an object thro...,
What is needed for an object to move,
What does an object need to apply...
7
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Topic 4 - Kinetic and Potential Energy
Anything thats moving,
What does energy in the kinetic s...,
What is the formula for energy in...
6
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Topic 4 - Renewable Energy (Paper 2)
What are the advantages of wind e...,
What are the disadvantages of win...,
What are the advantages of geothe...
14
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Topic 5 - Density and Pressure
What is the formula for density,
What are the units for density,
How do you convert from g cm to kg m
13
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Topic 5 - Changes of State (Paper 2)
What are the three states of matter,
How are particles arranged in a s...,
How are particles arranged in a l...
12
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Topic 5 - Temperature and Particle Theory
What happens to the particles whe...,
What happens to the particles whe...,
What is absolute zero
5
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Topic 5 - Temperature and Particle Theory (Paper 2)
How would you do an experiment to...
1
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Topic 5 - Particle Theory and Pressure in Gases
How do gas particles create pressure,
What happens to pressure when you...,
What is the relationship between ...
4
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Topic 5 - Specific Heat Capacity (Paper 2)
What happens to a substances ther...,
What is specific heat capacity,
What is the equation for change i...
4
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Topic 6 - Magnets and Magnetic Fields
How many poles do magnets have,
What is a magnetic field,
What are magnetic field lines use...
12
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Topic 6 - Electromagnetism
What does an electric current in ...,
What does a larger current in a c...,
What does direction of the magnet...
9
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Topic 6 - Electromagnetism (Paper 2)
Is there a magnetic field around ...,
Is there a magnetic field around ...,
Is there a magnetic field around ...
3
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Topic 6 - The Motor Effect
What happens when a current carry...,
Why does the motor effect happen,
When would a wire not experience ...
7
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Topic 6 - Electric Motors and Loudspeakers
What 4 factors speed up a dc motor,
Why does the coil in an electric ...,
What does the split ring commutat...
5
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Topic 6 - Electromagnetic Induction
What is electromagnetic induction,
What is the dynamo effect,
What are the two situations where...
10
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Topic 6 - Transformers (Paper 2)
What do transformers do,
What are transformers made of,
What happens when an alternating ...
9
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Topic 7 - Radioactivity
What is the nucleus of an atom,
What is the atomic number,
What is the mass number
16
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Topic 7 - Ionising Radiation
What does nuclear radiation cause,
How does nuclear radiation cause ...,
How can ionising radiation be det...
19
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Topic 7 - Investigating Radiation
What are alpha rays blocked by,
What are alpha rays blocked by,
What are alpha rays blocked by
5
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Topic 7 - Nuclear Equations
What is the rule for nuclear equa...,
What happens to the mass and atom...,
What happens to the mass and atom...
4
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Topic 7 - Half-life
What is half life,
What does a short half life mean,
What does a short half life mean
4
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Topic 7 - Uses of Nuclear Radiation
What can both beta and gamma radi...,
How do beta gamma radiation work ...,
What do sources of beta gamma rad...
12
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Topic 7 - Risks of Nuclear Radiation
Why are beta and gamma radiation ...,
Why is alpha radiation not harmfu...,
Why are beta and gamma radiation ...
15
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Topic 7 - Nuclear Fission and Fusion
What is nuclear fission,
What happens when a slow moving n...,
Why does nuclear power produce nu...
11
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Topic 8 - The Universe
The universe is a large collectio...,
A galaxy is a large collection of,
What force keeps stars together i...
13
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Topic 8 - Gravity and Orbits
What does gravitational field str...,
If the mass of the body is larger...,
If the distance to the body is cl...
11
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Topic 8 - Classifying Stars
What does the colour of a star de...,
What does the amount of visible l...,
What are all stars of a similar c...
5
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Topic 8 - Classifying Stars (Paper 2)
What does a stars brightness depe...,
The larger and hotter the star,
Why is classifying stars from ear...
5
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Topic 8 - Red-Shift (Paper 2)
What happens when a light source ...,
How do you calculate red shift
2
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Topic 8 - Stellar Evolution
What do stars initially form from,
How is a protostar formed,
What happens as the protostar get...
20
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Topic 8 - The Big Bang (Paper 2)
What do measurements of red shift...,
What is cmbr,
What is the big bang
3
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