Required practicals, maths skills and the equations

The skills every physics paper tests: units and standard form, uncertainty and errors, planning, graphs, the equations and the required practicals side by side.

Start: Units, prefixes and standard formAbout 20 min, free

Lessons

Practise and test

Mixed reviewQuestions mixed across your lessons.

By the end you can

Use prefixes, SI units, standard form and significant figures
Judge data: means, uncertainty, resolution, anomalies and errors
Plan a fair investigation and choose apparatus
Read gradients, intercepts and areas from graphs
Recall and rearrange the GCSE Physics equations
Say what each required practical measures and what limits it
Know which equations Edexcel and OCR ask you to recall and which are on their equation sheets

Specifications

AQA 8463 (Physics) required practicals 1 to 10, maths requirements and the Physics equation sheet
AQA 8464 (Combined Trilogy) physics required practicals, maths requirements and the equation sheet
Pearson Edexcel 1PH0 and 1SC0 Topic 1 and core practicals
OCR Gateway J249 and J250 practical activity groups and maths skills

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