Physics skills

Year 7

Forces

1. Identify forces
2. Contact and non-contact forces
3. The force of friction
4. The magnetic force
5. The gravitational force

Energy

1. General concepts
2. Identify energy conversion and transfer
3. Kinetic and potential energies
4. Energy efficiency
5. Wasted energy
6. Joules and calories
7. Level 1 - Energy to heat water
8. Level 2 - Energy to heat water

Planet Earth

1. General concepts
2. Structure of the Earth
3. Volcanoes
4. Earthquakes
5. The atmosphere
6. Water

Year 8

Forces

1. Identify forces
2. Contact and non-contact forces
3. The force of friction
4. The magnetic force
5. The gravitational force

Planet Earth

1. General concepts
2. Structure of the Earth
3. Volcanoes
4. Earthquakes
5. The atmosphere
6. Water

Year 9

Forces

1. Distance and displacement
2. Calculate the speed
3. Relative speed
4. Speed and velocity
5. Acceleration
6. Inertia
7. Identify forces
8. Contact and non-contact forces
9. The force of friction
10. The magnetic force
11. The gravitational force
12. Level 1 - Newton's second law
13. Level 2 - Newton's second law
14. Level 3 - Newton's second law

Planet Earth

1. General concepts
2. Structure of the Earth
3. Volcanoes
4. Earthquakes
5. The atmosphere
6. Water

Year 10

Measurements and units

1. Standard form
2. SI units
3. Order of magnitude
4. Density

Motion

1. Speed and acceleration
2. Forces
3. Hooke's law
4. The gravitational force
5. Newton's first law of motion

Work, energy and power

1. Work done to move an object
2. Power

Year 11

Measurements and units

1. Standard form
2. SI units

Nuclear radiation

1. Nuclear decay

Nuclear energy

1. Nuclear binding energy
2. Nuclear reactions
3. Absorption of radiation by living things

Electricity

1. Current and charge
2. Electric potential and energy
3. Electric power
4. Electromotive force
5. Ohm's law
6. Resistivity
7. Power and resistance
8. Basic circuit analysis

Kinematics

1. Distance and displacement
2. Distance from the position-versus-time graph
3. Displacement from the position-versus-time graph
4. Speed and velocity
5. Speed from the position-versus-time graph
6. Velocity from the position-versus-time graph
7. Displacement from the velocity-versus-time graph
8. Constant acceleration
9. Acceleration from the velocity-versus-time graph

Dynamics

1. Gravitational and frictional forces
2. Newton's first law of motion
3. Newton's second law of motion
4. Newton's third law of motion
5. Momentum
6. Impulse
7. Collision

Mechanical energy

1. Kinetic and potential energy
2. Conservation of mechanical energy
3. Mechanical power

Light

1. Properties of light
2. Reflection of light off plane mirrors
3. Reflection of light off curved mirrors
4. Refraction of light
5. Lenses
6. Colour

Year 12

Kinemtaics

1. Free fall
2. Projectile motion

Dynamics

1. Circular motion

Force fields

1. Level 1 - Electrostatic force
2. Level 2 - Electrostatic force
3. Level 1 - The electric field
4. Level 2 - The electric field
5. Level 1 - Electric fields and motion
6. Electric current in a magnetic field
7. Level 1 - Magnetic flux
8. Level 1 - Electric motors
9. The gravitational field

Sound

1. Level 1 - Sound waves

Generation of electricity

1. Level 1 - Electromotive force
2. Level 2 - Electromotive force
3. Level 3 - Electromotive force
4. Level 1 - Electricity generators

Transmission of electricity

1. Level 1 - Sinusoidal AC voltages
2. Level 1 - Transformers
3. Level 1 - Power supply and transmission losses

Electromagnetic waves

1. Level 1 - The wave nature of light
2. Level 1 - Standing waves
3. Level 1 - Diffraction of light