GCSE GCSE Flashcards on AQA Physics unit 1, created by Isabel Knight on 27/03/2015.
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What is Infra-red Radiation?
What are the 3 ways Heat energy can be transferred?
Why are metals good conductors?
What is Conduction?
What is Convection?
What are the 9 types of energy?
What is the formula for finding the efficiency of any device?
What is the formula for finding the specific heat capacity of any device?
What is Specific Heat capacity?
Name 4 non-renewable energy resources.
Name 8 renewable energy resources.
What is the formula for finding the amount of energy that is transferred by an appliance?
What is the formula for calculating the cost of electricity?
In this sankey diagram, if each square=10J, what is:
a)the total input energy(J)
b)the wasted thermal energy(J)
c)the wasted sound energy(J)
d)the useful output energy(J)
Give 5 ways you could insulate your house.
What is payback time and how can you work it out?
How is electricity distributed via the National Grid?
How do pylons and transformers help transmit power?
What are the pros and cons of
Overhead cables?
What are the pros and cons of Underground cables?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of fossil fuels?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of Nuclear energy?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of Biofuel energy?
What are the advanatages and disadvantages of Geothermal energy?
What are the advanatages and disadvantages of Tidal energy?
What are the advanatages and disadvantages of Hydroelectric energy?
What are the advanatages and disadvantages of Solar energy?
What are the advanatages and disadvantages of Wave energy?
What are the advanatages and disadvantages of Wind energy?
How does evaporation take place and why does it have a cooling affect in liquid?
How does condensation take place?
Name 4 ways that a vacuum flask is designed to prevent heat transfer.
What is the conservation of energy principle?
Describe the arrangement and movement of the particles in solids.
Describe the arrangement and movement of the particles in liquids.
Describe the arrangement and movement of the particles in gases.
What do U-Values measure?
What is CCS?
Give the disadvantages of biofuels.
What are transverse waves?
Describe the convection currents in an Immersion Heater.
In what ways can you make conduction and convection more efficient?
What are longitudinal waves?
Give 4 examples of transverse waves.
Give 3 examples of Longitudinal waves.
Why is the useful energy input of a device not usually equal to the total energy output?
Explain how electricity is generated in a typical power station.
What is red-shift?
What is the Doppler Effect?
What do red-shift observations tell us about the universe?
Describe the Big Bang Theory.
What is CMBR?
Give 2 limitations of the Big Bang Theory.
What is diffraction?
What is refraction?
Give the advantages of clockwork radios over battery radios.
What is the purpose of pumped storage?
