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You will have studied Combined Science GCSE or Physics as a Separate Science and are most likely considering Mathematics, also if you wish to progress further in your studies beyond KS5. 

Below we have provided some requested tasks. These are split into 3 sections about an hour each.

If you have any problems you can email the Physics teacher:   marcus.cooper@education.gg.

Requested Tasks

Hour 1:

Think about the perspective of scale.    The following worksheet will get you thinking about small & big things: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13MIgqyzzpsyWcREmLFbeZGhZpWFezXAh/view?usp=drive_link.

The answers are attached here: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jHJypEIJmgsch72rsi7rS6hnDMVVZHc5/view?usp=drive_link

Hour 2:

Many of you will have made use of Seneca during your GCSEs. Click on the link to get to the course:

https://app.senecalearning.com/dashboard/class/8r5a5dy3k0/assignments/assignment/d6d8423d-5a2d-4069-b9ce-c16891d26d6c.

If you have difficulty loading this link. Go to Seneca, Choose Physics, A-Level, AQA Exam Board. Find the link for questions on Units & Prefix's - which is one of the first things that we will look at.

Hour 3:

Go to A Level Physics Online, AQA. Have a look at the "Daily Workout Books" - which are excellent & prepare you well for A Level. The Video clips on this site are also excellent, look at these.

Suggested reading

Before the course starts you may wish to find some of your GCSE Science work and some of your GCSE Mathematics. We re-visit topics so you don’t need to be on top of any particular topic, just think about how physics solves problems through logical explanations and Maths. You could look at some of the more popular Science books like “Big Bang” by Simon Singh or “The first three minutes” by Steven Weinberg but you will probably appreciate them more after a little of Year 12.

Suggested research

Use the internet to look at any really interesting bits of science you like - the Large Hadron Collider, Hubble Space Telescope pictures or some amazing engineering, for example the longest bridge in the world. Perhaps look at Newton’s Laws of Motion on Wikipedia. Enjoy your summer and go surfing- check the waves reflecting, refracting and superimposing. You wouldn’t actually need to get in to check the relation between frequency, velocity and wavelength by estimating times and distances.