Revision sheet

The following points identify the ideas and concepts that you have learnt in Forces and Motion:

  • Pupils should be able to give examples for, label and name a range of forces including Frictional Forces, Gravitational Force (Weight/gravitational pull), Tension Force, Electrical Force (electrostatic attraction/repulsion), Normal Force (Reaction), Magnetic Force, Air Resistance Force (drag), Applied Force (push/pull) and Spring Force.
  • Express a force as a push or a pull of one body on another.
  • Pupils are to recall W = mg and use it to find the weight for a range of masses.
  • To plot a force extension graph for their spring and explore proportionality.
  • Use a force extension graph to find the weight of on unknown mass.
  • Pupils should be able to describe and compare the Plum Pudding model and the Rutherford model of the atom.
  • Pupils should recall that like charges repel and opposite charges attract.
  • Using the observations from the Geiger and Marsden’s experiment pupils should be able to make conclusions about the structure of the atom and how they support the Rutherford model.
  • To understand the factors (charge and speed) which affect the deflection of alpha particles by a nucleus.
  • Pupils should understand how states of matter can be classified in terms of their characteristics e.g. compressibility, ease of flow, maintenance of shape and volume.
  • Pupils should be able to describe the main aspects of and explanations for Brownian motion.
  • Recall that particles in a liquid have a random motion within a close-packed structure.
  • Recall that particles in a solid vibrate about fixed positions within a close-packed regular structure.
  • Pupils should understand that a substance can change state from solid to liquid by the process of melting.
  • Pupils should understand that in order to form vapor, the molecules of the liquid must overcome the forces of attraction between them.
  • Pupils should understand that the temperature of a boiling liquid remains constant, even when more heat is added.
  • Pupils should understand that the process of evaporation and how it is used for cooling in a range of applications.

For your revision, you should be using the notes made in class along with your text book; the following pages may be useful 36-37, 60-61, 170, 266, 98-99, 114-115, & 118-119. You should make summary notes, test one-another, make up your own questions to test each other.

Revision sheet