Home / Revision / GCSE Physics We made this map from the board's own specification. Our topics follow the GCSE and A-level courses, so where a board groups content differently, one reference can cover more than one topic. Specification (PDF) (opens a new tab)
Topic Spec Notes and tools How sure
Energy stores, transfers and efficiency Dynamics: energy; Properties of matter: specific heat capacity
Energy resources Energy stores, kinetic and potential energy Power and efficiency Specific heat capacity Energy stores, transfers and efficiency: lessons and questions Physics formulas Pendulum Mass on a spring
Not yet Getting there Confident
Electric circuits Electricity: electrical charge carriers, Ohm's law, practical circuits
Circuit symbols, charge and current Current, potential difference and resistance Electric circuits: lessons and questions Ohm's law and circuits Series & parallel circuits
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Mains electricity, the National Grid and static Electricity: electrical power
Electrical power and mains electricity Mains electricity, the National Grid and static: lessons and questions Ohm's law and circuits Electric fields and equipotentials
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Particle model, density and gas pressure Properties of matter: specific latent heat, gas laws and the kinetic model
Density Particle model, density and gas pressure: lessons and questions Gas laws
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Atomic structure and radioactivity Radiation: nuclear radiation
Atoms, nuclear radiation and half-life Atomic structure and radioactivity: lessons and questions Periodic table Radioactive decay Half-life
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7 topics Topic Spec Notes and tools How sure
Forces, work, elasticity, moments and pressure Dynamics: Newton's laws
Forces, mass and weight Resultant forces and free body diagrams Forces, work, elasticity, moments and pressure: lessons and questions Forces on a slope Mass on a spring
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Forces and motion Dynamics: vectors and scalars, velocity-time graphs, acceleration
Speed, velocity and distance-time graphs SUVAT and the equations of motion Forces and motion: lessons and questions Forces & acceleration SUVAT solver Projectile motion
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Momentum Dynamics: Newton's laws
Momentum and its conservation Momentum: lessons and questions Momentum and collisions
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Waves and the electromagnetic spectrum Waves: wave parameters and behaviours, electromagnetic spectrum
Transverse and longitudinal waves Waves and the wave speed equation Waves and the electromagnetic spectrum: lessons and questions Waves on a string Refraction and Snell's law
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Lenses, visible light, sound and black bodies Waves: refraction of light
Reflection and refraction of light Lenses, visible light, sound and black bodies: lessons and questions Refraction and Snell's law Lenses and ray diagrams
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Space physics Space: space exploration, cosmology
The solar system and the life cycle of a star Space physics: lessons and questions Orbits and Kepler's laws
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Required practicals, maths skills and the equations Units, prefixes and scientific notation
Scientific calculator Statistics calculator Graphing calculator
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Official Qualifications Scotland (SQA) National 5 pages
Search for C857 75 on the board's page to find this course.
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