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GCSE Physics Knowledge Mats

All 4 sheets — Forces and motion, Waves and the electromagnetic spectrum, Electricity and Atomic structure and radioactivity — for £3.99. One landscape page per topic, every claim sourced and every image licensed.

4 sheets · one A4 landscape PDF each · instant download

Bought once for the set, not per sheet. Photocopy them for your classes freely — keep the running foot on the page, which carries the image credits the licences require.

£3.99 for all 4

Forces and motion knowledge mat — watermarked preview

Forces and motion

Nothing Moves Without a Resultant

Why a car at a steady seventy has no net force on it — and why twice the speed needs more than twice the road. Scalars, vectors and Newton's three laws, with the two motion graphs; mass, weight, work, moments and Hooke's law; stopping distance drawn from its two rules; eight equations with a chip saying which you must recall and which you are given; a worked crash-force estimate. Ten terms to define, a model answer on doubling speed, and the misconceptions that cost marks.

Waves and the electromagnetic spectrum knowledge mat — watermarked preview

Waves and the electromagnetic spectrum

Same Speed, Different Energy

If every electromagnetic wave travels at the same speed, what makes a gamma ray dangerous and a radio wave harmless? Amplitude, wavelength, frequency and period, with transverse and longitudinal waves drawn side by side; the seven bands of the spectrum in order, with what each is used for; reflection, refraction, absorption and colour, under Röntgen's first X-ray of 1895; the three relationships with the recall/given chip; a worked wavelength from a frequency. Eight terms to define, a model answer on why gamma rays ionise, and the misconceptions that cost marks.

Electricity knowledge mat — watermarked preview

Electricity

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.

Atomic structure and radioactivity knowledge mat — watermarked preview

Atomic structure and radioactivity

Random, but Perfectly Predictable

If nobody can say which nucleus decays next, how can a half-life be known to the second? The nucleus and isotope notation; alpha, beta and gamma, with penetration and ionising power drawn running opposite ways; half-life, fission and fusion; six distinctions that decide an answer, from contamination to background radiation; a worked decline as a ratio. Ten terms to define, a model answer on why alpha is worst inside the body, and the misconceptions that cost marks.

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