GCSE PHYSICS EDEXCEL 2109
Aims
To develop the student’s understanding of the science around them that affects them in their everyday life.
To develop the student’s questioning, analytical and evaluative approach to scientific problems and issues.
To develop the student’s practical skills in science and an understanding of how science works.
To encourage enthusiasm about science leading to a continued study. Students are continuously assessed about their practical skills and their knowledge with multiple choice tests throughout the year.
Units
1. Producing and measuring electricity
2. You’re in charge
3. Now you see it, now you don’t
4. Space and its’ mysteries
5. As fast as you can!
6. Roller coasters and relativity
7. Putting radiation to use
8. Power of the atom
9. Particles in action
10. Medical physics
Assessment
- Internal assessment (includes practical assessment and assessment activities) 40%
- External assessment 60%
A Level Physics
| Subject | Physics | Awarding Body | Edexcel |
| AS code (cash in) | 8PHO1 | A2 code (cash in) | 9PHO1 |
Course aims Students must be able
- To use their knowledge and understanding to pose scientific questions, define scientific problems, and to present scientific arguments and ideas.
- To consider ethical issues and appreciate the ways in which society uses science to inform decision-making.
- To use theories, models and ideas to develop and modify scientific explanations, and use appropriate methodology to answer scientific questions.
- To appreciate the tentative nature of scientific knowledge and appreciate how society uses science in decision- making.
- To communicate their ideas well, use appropriate terminology and consider applications and implications of science (together with risks and benefits).
AS level Course Details
| Unit | Title | Unit Code | Content summary | Assessment type | % of AS | Availability |
| 1 | Physics on the go | 6PHO1 | Mechanics (rectilinear motion, forces, energy, and power) and materials (flow of liquids, viscosity, Stake’s law, Young’s modulus and elastic strain). | External exam 1 hr 20min | 40% | January & June |
| 2 | Physics at work | 6PHO2 | Refraction, polarisation, diffraction, standing waves, electricity, Ohm’s law, non-ohmic materials, potential dividers, emf, internal resistance, thermistor and wave particle duality. | External exam 1 hr20 min | 40% | January & June |
| 3 | Exploring physics | 6PHO3 | Students write a report, which involves an experiment based on a physics-based visit or case study of an appliance of physics. | Case study is internally marked and externally moderated | 20% | June |
A2 Course Details
| Unit | Title | Unit Code | Content summary | Assessment type | % of A2 | Availability |
| 4 | Physics on the move | 6PHO4 | Further mechanics (momentum and circular motion), electric and magnetic fields, and particle physics. | External exam 1hr 35min Objective questions, short & long questions. | 40% | January & June |
| 5 | Physics from creation to collapse | 6PHO5 | Thermal energy, nuclear decay, oscillations, astrophysics and cosmology | External exam 1hr 35min Objective questions, short & long questions. | 40% | January & June |
| 6 | Experime-ntal physics | 6PHO6 | Students must plan an experiment, and then carry out a plan of an experiment which may be their own plan, a plan provided by Edexcel or a plan devised by the centre. | Experimental course work: Internally assessed, externally moderated. | 20% | June |