Forces

Explore scalar and vector quantities and vectors using scaled arrows.

Explore contact and non-contact forces and interactions in familiar situations.

Explore mass, weight and their units and weight from mass and field strength.

Explore resultant force and collinear resultants.

Calculate work done by forces and connect mechanical movement with energy transfers.

Explore extension and elastic deformation and force or extension using hooke’s law.

Explore force and extension measurements and spring constant from a graph.

Explore moments and perpendicular distance and moments about a pivot.

Explore lever and gear functions and transmission of turning effects.

Explore pressure as force per area and fluid pressure using appropriate equations [liquid equation ht].

Explore the particle cause of atmospheric pressure and pressure differences and their effects.

Explore distance and displacement and both for one-dimensional journeys.

Explore speed and velocity and average speed using compatible units.

Explore distance–time graph features and speed from a straight gradient.

Explore acceleration and its units and acceleration from velocity changes.

Explore velocity–time graph features and acceleration from gradient.

Explore area under a velocity–time graph and rectangular and triangular areas.

Learn about terminal velocity, practise the key ideas and apply them to GCSE Physics questions.

Explore Newton’s first law and motion with balanced forces.

Explore Newton’s second law and resultant force, mass or acceleration.

Explore variables in a force–mass–acceleration investigation and controlled force and mass tests.

Explore Newton’s third law and interaction force pairs.

Explore thinking, braking and stopping distance and total stopping distance.

Explore braking energy transfers and factors affecting braking force.

Explore reaction-time measurements and a fair repeated comparison.

Learn about factors affecting thinking distance, practise the key ideas and apply them to GCSE Physics questions.

Explore momentum and its direction and signed momentum.

Explore the conditions for momentum conservation and momentum transfers in interactions.

Explore force as momentum change per time and average stopping force.