GCSE Physics Knowledge Organisers

Every unit, and the sheet that covers it

Each sheet carries the same five sections in the same places — the vocabulary a pupil must be able to define, what they must know, what they must be able to do kept in its own list, the one diagram worth remembering, and the misconceptions that actually cost marks.

Combined science as well as separate physics. These follow the GCSE physics scheme of work, which is written for both routes: the combined content is a subset of the separate content, checked statement by statement against both the Department for Education’s documents. A combined class works from the same sheets — alongside biology and chemistry , or see all three together.

Board-neutral throughout. No sheet is written to one board’s specification. The content traces to the Department for Education’s own subject content, which AQA, Pearson Edexcel, OCR and WJEC Eduqas all have to cover however each one orders or labels it — so a department can use these whichever board they teach.

1. Energy: Stores, Transfers and Efficiency

   Year 10 · unit 1 · 2 A4 sheets

2. The Particle Model of Matter

   Year 10 · unit 2 · 2 A4 sheets

3. Electricity: Current, Circuits and Safety

   Year 10 · unit 3 · 2 A4 sheets

4. Forces, Pressure and Moments

   Year 10 · unit 4 · 2 A4 sheets

5. Forces and Motion: Graphs, Newton’s Laws and Stopping

   Year 10 · unit 5 · 2 A4 sheets

6. Waves in Matter

   Year 10 · unit 6 · 2 A4 sheets

7. Light and the Electromagnetic Spectrum

   Year 11 · unit 1 · 2 A4 sheets

8. Magnetism and Electromagnetism

   Year 11 · unit 2 · 2 A4 sheets

9. The Nuclear Atom, Decay and Half-life

   Year 11 · unit 3 · 2 A4 sheets

10. Nuclear Energy and the Universe

    Year 11 · unit 4 · 2 A4 sheets

11. Final Preparation and Exam Technique

    Year 11 · unit 5 · 2 A4 sheets