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CLARITY | CONFIDENCE | CURIOSITY

Energy

Explore energy stores, transfers, power and efficiency, from everyday systems to national energy resources.

Lessons

Explore the lessons below to build your knowledge and confidence across this topic. Each lesson breaks the physics down into clear, manageable steps, with explanations, practice and exam-focused activities to help you understand the key ideas and apply them successfully.

Energy Stores and Systems

01

Explore energy stores and store changes in a chosen system.

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Kinetic Energy

02

Explore kinetic energy and its units and kinetic energy from mass and speed.

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Gravitational Potential Energy

03

Explore gravitational potential energy and changes using mass, field strength and height.

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Elastic Potential Energy

04

Explore elastic potential energy and stored energy using spring constant and extension.

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Specific Heat Capacity

05

Explore specific heat capacity and units and thermal energy changes.

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Specific Heat Capacity Required Practical

06

Explore measurements for specific heat capacity and the investigation and its controls.

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Power

07

Explore power as a rate of energy transfer and power, energy or time.

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Energy Transfers

08

Explore energy-transfer pathways and useful and dissipated transfers.

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Thermal Insulation Required Practical

09

Learn about thermal insulation required practical, practise the key ideas and apply them to GCSE Physics questions.

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Efficiency

10

Explore useful output and total input and decimal and percentage efficiency.

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Reducing Unwanted Energy Transfers

11

Explore methods of reducing unwanted transfers and a controlled insulation comparison [separate physics practical].

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Global Energy Resources

12

Explore renewable and non-renewable resources and uses and interpret resource-use trends.

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