Physics · KS3 to A Level · £4.99
Physics
Key Terms
Every word a physics department teaches, Year 7 to A Level, in one A4 book. Each key stage gets its own pages: the terms grouped the way they are taught rather than alphabetically, a definition that fits on two lines, and a worked example beside almost every one. Each key stage opens on one large drawing instead of a list: a crate pushed against friction at Key Stage 3, a free body diagram with a resultant force at GCSE, a vector resolved into components alongside a satellite's orbit at A Level — three genuinely different drawings, because the curriculum teaches three genuinely different ideas of a force, not one picture redrawn three times. GCSE then follows the DfE's own physics content in order: forces and motion, energy, waves and the electromagnetic spectrum, electricity, magnetism and electromagnetism, the particle model of matter, atomic structure, and space physics; A Level adds mechanics, the mechanical properties of materials, electric circuits, thermal physics, quantum and nuclear physics, and fields and electromagnetic induction. Nineteen small diagrams are drawn where a sentence will not do, including a wave's amplitude and wavelength, alpha, beta and gamma penetrating different barriers, and a force-extension graph. Then a page on using the words: the ones the assessment itself is written in, the false friends that mean something else in a physics classroom, the same point written weakly and then properly, and what each word becomes at the next key stage.
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A pupil who knows a word is not yet using it. This book is built around that gap. The words for each key stage sit in the groups they are taught in, each with a short definition and a worked example, and a marked word is one the pupil meets again at the next key stage, so a department can see where its vocabulary carries forward and where it changes name. Every key stage opens on one large labelled drawing rather than a card strip, because a force is a genuinely drawable thing: numbered markers on the picture match the same numbers beside the words in band one, so a pupil can go from the drawing to the definition and back.
Every key stage closes on a page about using the words. The words the assessment is written in, taken from Ofqual's assessment objectives where they are theirs — physics' own objectives name a mathematical-skills requirement higher than any other science, and the book says so. The false friends: power is not strength, current is not a flow of water, and resistance is not stubbornness. The same point written weakly and then properly, so "a heavy object falls faster than a light one" becomes a sentence an examiner would credit. And a table of what each habit is called at the next stage. The book names no awarding body: the DfE content sets the vocabulary every specification shares, and which topics a specification examines, and in what depth, belongs to the awarding organisation, so a department should read it with its own specification beside it. It has not been read by a practising physics teacher.
- Written to
- Key Stage 3 follows the national curriculum in England, science programmes of study (September 2013); GCSE follows the DfE's Biology, Chemistry and Physics GCSE subject content (June 2015) and Ofqual's GCSE subject level conditions and requirements for single science; A Level follows the DfE's GCE AS and A level subject content for biology, chemistry, physics and psychology (April 2014), Appendix 3, and Ofqual's GCE subject level conditions for science, which also sets physics' own higher mathematical-content requirement, at least 40% of the assessment; 153 of 193 terms appear by name in one of those documents, the remainder being standard physics vocabulary defined here in plain English, as a glossary does; no awarding body is named, and the only named laws used are universal physics nomenclature — Newton's three laws, Hooke's, Ohm's, Faraday's and Lenz's laws, Fleming's left-hand rule — never anything a specification decides for itself
- Intended for
- physics departments: printed one per pupil, kept in the front of an exercise book, or put on the wall by key stage
- Extent
- 12 pages · 11 sections
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