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GCSE Physics knowledge mat

Charge Goes Round, Energy Gets Used

Why adding a resistor in parallel makes it easier for current to flow — and what actually gets used up in a circuit. Current, potential difference and resistance, with three I–V curves on one pair of axes; series and parallel rules; mains, safety, the grid and static, under lightning striking the Eiffel Tower in 1902; six equations, every one on the DfE’s recall list; a series circuit worked end to end. Eight terms to define, a model answer on parallel resistance, and the misconceptions that cost marks.

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    One landscape A4 page on one topic, led by the figures and photographs rather than the headings. It carries current, p.d. and resistance with three I–V curves, series and parallel, mains and the grid, six recall equations and a series circuit worked end to end. Then the vocabulary, a worked exam-style answer and the misconceptions that cost marks.

    Every photograph on the sheet is a real archival or scientific image, not an illustration and not AI-generated; every diagram is drawn in code for the sheet. Each image was checked against its own licence template rather than a label, and the running foot names every creator, states that the images have been cropped and adjusted for print, and links the licence, so the sheet can be photocopied for a class and stay compliant. Every claim is sourced to the DfE subject content, and nothing is reproduced from a past paper, a textbook or a specification.

    Sold by subject: all four physics sheets for one price. A knowledge organiser stores a unit and is revised from afterwards; this is meant to be on the table while the work is happening.

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    The DfE GCSE subject content for physics (DFE-00352-2014). Every photograph is a sourced archival or scientific image, licensed for reuse and credited on the sheet; every diagram is drawn in code for the sheet
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    physics teachers. On the desk during the lesson, not a student revision guide
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    One landscape A4 sheet · 8 sections

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    01Current, p.d. and resistance
    02Series and parallel
    03Mains, safety and static
    04Every one of these is on the DfE’s RECALL list
    05Work a series circuit end to end
    06Glossary
    07Use this mat
    08Common misconceptions
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