Year 11 skills

Physics

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

Chemistry

Basic analytical chemistry

1. Molecular mass
2. Moles
3. pH calculations
4. Solution molarity

Periodic table

1. Electronic configuration
2. Periodic trends

Organic compounds

1. Identify hydrocarbons
2. Write the molecular formula for a molecule
3. Properties of hydrocarbons
4. Percentage composition calculations
5. Organic reactions

Biology

The cell

1. Under the microscope
2. Types of cells - prokaryotic and eukaryotic
3. The plasma membrane
4. The organelles

Cellular respiration

1. General concepts
2. ATP
3. Enzymes in cellular respiration
4. Glycolysis
5. Krebs cycle
6. Aerobic and anaerobic respiration

Transport across the plasma membrane

1. Passive and active transport
2. Osmosis

The cell cycle

1. Binary cell division
2. Apoptosis
3. Stem cells

Inheritance and diversity

1. Genes, alleles and genomes
2. Chromosome types and structures
3. Chromosome functions
4. Sex chromosomes
5. Karyotypes
6. Meiosis