This section provides knowledge and understanding of
temperature, matter, specific heat capacity and specific
latent heat with contexts involving heat transfer and
change of phase (HSW1, 2, 5, 7).
Experimental work can be carried out to safely
investigate specific heat capacity of materials (HSW4).
It also provides an opportunity to discuss how
Newton’s laws can be used to model the behaviour
of gases. There are many examples of objects travelling at
constant speed in circles, e.g. planets, artificial
satellites, charged particles in a magnetic field, etc.
The physics in all these cases can be described and
analysed using the ideas developed by Newton. The
concepts in this section have applications in many
contexts present in other sections of this specification,
such as planetary motion in section 5.4.3 (HSW1, 2,
5, 9).
This section provides knowledge and understanding
of circular motion and important concepts such as
centripetal force and acceleration.
This section provides knowledge and understanding
of Newton’s law of gravitation, planetary motion and
gravitational potential and energy.
In this module, learners will learn about capacitors,
electric field, electromagnetism, nuclear physics,
particle physics.
This section provides knowledge and understanding
of X-rays, CAT scans, PET scans and ultrasound scans.
This section shows how the developments in medical
imaging have led to a number of valuable non-invasive
techniques used in hospitals.