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MOTION, FORCES, & ENERGY

1.1 PHYSICAL QUANTITIES AND MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES 6

1.2 MOTION 16

1.3 MASS AND WEIGHT 34

1.4 DENSITY 49

FORCES

1.5.1 EFFECTS OF FORCES 57

1.5.2 TURNING EFFECT OF FORCES 74

MOMENTUM

1.6 MOMENTUM 85

ENERGY, WORK, & POWER

1.7.1 ENERGY 94

1.7.2 WORK 105

1.7.3 ENERGY RESOURCES 108

1.7.4 POWER 114

PRESSURE
URE

1.8 PRESSURE 118

THERMAL PHYSICS
KINETIC PARTICLE MODEL OF MATTER

2.1.1 STATES OF MATTER 132

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2.1.2 PARTICLE MODEL 133

2.1.3 GASES AND THE ABSOLUTE SCALE OF TEMPERATURE 142

THERMAL PROPERTIES AND TEMPERATURE

2.2.1 THERMAL EXPANSION OF SOLIDS, LIQUIDS AND GASES 146

2.2.2 SPECIFIC HEAT CAPACITY 155

2.2.3 MELTING, BOILING AND EVAPORATION 162

TRANSFER OF THERMAL ENERGY

2.3.1 CONDUCTION 169

2.3.2 CONVECTION 178

2.3.3 RADIATION 181

2.3.4 CONSEQUENCES OF THERMAL ENERGY TRANSFER 187

WAVES

3.1 GENERAL PROPERTIES OF WAVES 192

LIGHT

3.2.1 REFLECTION OF LIGHT 207

3.2.2 REFRACTION OF LIGHT 217

3.2.3 THIN LENSES 225

3.2.4 DISPERSION OF LIGHT 232

3.3 ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM 235

3.4 SOUND 241

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ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM

4.1 SIMPLE PHENOMENA OF MAGNETISM 253

ELECTRICAL QUANTITIES

4.2.1 ELECTRIC CHARGE 269

4.2.2 ELECTRIC CURRENT 277

4.2.3 ELECTROMOTIVE FORCE AND POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE 283

4.2.4 RESISTANCE 288

4.2.5 ELECTRICAL ENERGY AND ELECTRICAL POWER 296

ELECTRIC CIRCUITS

4.3.1 CIRCUIT DIAGRAMS AND CIRCUIT COMPONENTS 299

4.3.2 SERIES AND PARALLEL CIRCUITS 327

4.3.3 ACTION AND USE OF CIRCUIT COMPONENTS 335

4.4 ELECTRICAL SAFETY 338

ELECTROMAGNETIC
C EEFFECTS
FFECTS

4.5.1 ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION 343

4.5.2 THE A.C. GENERATOR 345

4.5.3
5.3 MAGNETIC EFFECT OF A CURRENT 353

4.5.4 FORCE ON A CURRENT-CARRYING CONDUCTOR 363

4.5.5 THE D.C. MOTOR 371

4.5.6 THE TRANSFORMER 372

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NUCLEAR PHYSICS
THE NUCLEAR MODEL OF THE ATOM

5.1.1 THE ATOM 379

5.1.2 THE NUCLEUS 385

RADIOACTIVITY

5.2.1 DETECTION OF RADIOACTIVITY 392

5.2.2 THE THREE TYPES OF NUCLEAR EMISSION 394

5.2.3 RADIOACTIVE DECAY 402

5.2.4 HALF-LIFE 408

5.2.5 SAFETY PRECAUTIONS 417

SPACE PHYSICS
EARTH AND THE SOLAR SYSTEM

6.1.1 THE EARTH 417

6.1.2 THE SOLAR SYSTEM 418

STARS AND THE UN

UNIVERSE
NIVER
RSE

6.2.1 THE SUN AS A STAR 419

6.2.2 STARS 419

6.2.3 THE UNIVERSE 420

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 Cambridge IGCSE Physics 0625 Paper 2 Classified Questions

Topic 1. Motion, forces and energy

1.1 Physical quantities and measurement techniques

Content 1. Describe the use of rulers and measuring cylinders to find a length or a volume
2. Describe how to measure a variety of time intervals using clocks and digital timers
3. Determine an average value for a small distance and for a short interval of time by measuring
multiples (including the period of oscillation of a pendulum)
4. Understand that a scalar quantity has magnitude (size) only and that a vector quantity has
magnitude and direction
5. Know that the following quantities are scalars: distance, speed, time, mass, energy and
temperature
6. Know that the following quantities are vectors: force, weight, velocity, acceleration,
momentum, electric field strength and gravitational field strength
7. Determine, by calculation or graphically, the resultant of two vectors at right angles, limited to
forces or velocities only

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 Topic 1. Motion, forces and energy

1.2 Motion
Content 1. Define speed as distance travelled per unit time; recall and use the equation v = s/t
2. Define velocity as speed in a given direction
3. Recall and use the equation average speed = total distance travelled/total time taken
4. Sketch, plot and interpret distance time and speed time graphs
5. Determine, qualitatively, from given data or the shape of a distance time graph or speed
time graph when an object is:
a. at rest
b. moving with constant speed
c. accelerating
d. decelerating
6. Calculate speed from the gradient of a straight line section of a distance time graph
7. Calculate the area under a speed time graph to determine the distance travelled for motion
with constant speed or constant acceleration
8. State that the acceleration of free fall g for an object near to the surf
surface of the Earth is
approximately constant and is approximately 9.8 m/s2
9.
10. Determine from given data or the shape of a speed time graph when an object is moving
with:
a. constant acceleration
b. changing acceleration
11. Calculate acceleration from the gradient of a speed time graph
12. Know that a deceleration is a negative acceleration and use this in calculations
13. Describe the motion of objects falling in a uniform gravitational field with and without
air/liquid resistance (including reference to terminal velocity)

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 Topic 1. Motion, forces and energy

1.3 Mass and weight

Content 1. State that mass is a measure of the quantity of matter in an object at rest relative to the
observer
2. State that weight is a gravitational force on an object that has mass
3. Define gravitational field strength as force per unit mass; recall and use the equation g = W/m
and know that this is equivalent to the acceleration of free fall
4. Know that weights (and masses) may be compared using a balance
5. Describe, and use the concept of, weight ht as the effect of a gravitational field on a mass

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 Topic 1. Motion, forces and energy

1.4 Density
Content 1. Define density as mass per unit volume; recall and use the equation

2. Describe how to determine the density of a liquid, of a regularly shaped solid and of an
irregularly shaped solid which sinks in a liquid (volume by displacement), including
appropriate calculations
3. Determine whether an object floats based on density data
4. Determine whether one liquid will float on another liquid based on density data given that the
liquids do not mix

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 Topic 1. Motion, forces and energy
1.5 Forces

1.5.1 Effects of forces

Content 1. Know that forces may produce changes in the size and shape of an object
2. Sketch, plot and interpret load extension graphs for an elastic solid and describe the
associated experimental procedures
3. Determine the resultant of two or more forces acting along the same straight line
4. Know that an object either remains at rest or continues
inues in a straight line at constant speed
unless acted on by a resultant force
5. State that a resultant force may change the velocity of an object by changing its direction of
motion or its speed
6. Describe solid friction as the force between two surfaces that at may impede motion and
produce heating
7. Know that friction (drag) acts on an object moving through a liquid
8. Know that friction (drag) acts on an object moving through a gas (e.g. air resistance)
9. Define the spring constant as force per unit extension; recall and use the equation K = F/X
10. extension graph and identify this
point on the graph (an understanding of the elastic limit is not re
required)
11. Recall and use the equation F = ma and know that the force and the acceleration are in the
same direction
12. Describe, qualitatively, motion in a circular path due to a force perpendicular to the motion
as:
a. speed increases if force increases, with mass and radius constant
b. radius decreases if force increases, with mass and speed constant
c. an increased mass requires an increased force to keep speed and radius
constant (F = mv2/r is not required)

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 Topic 1. Motion, forces and energy
1.5 Forces

1.5.2 Turning effect of forces

Content 1. Describe the moment of a force as a measure of its turning effect and give everyday
examples
2. Define the moment of a force as moment = force × perpendicular distance from the pivot;
recall and use this equation
3. Apply the principle of moments to situations with one force each side of the pivot, including
balancing of a beam
4. State that, when there is no resultant force and no resultant moment, an object is in
equilibrium
5. Apply the principle of moments to other situations, including those with more than one force
each side of the pivot
6. Describe an experiment to demonstrate that there is no resultant moment on an object in
equilibrium

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 Topic 1. Motion, forces and energy
1.5 Forces
1.5.3 Centre of gravity
Content 1. State what is meant by centre of gravity
2. Describe an experiment to determine the position of the centre of gravity of an irregularly
shaped plane lamina
3. Describe, qualitatively, the effect of the position of the centre of gravity on the stability of
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 Topic 1. Motion, forces and energy

1.6 Momentum
Content 1. Define momentum as mass × velocity; recall and use the equation p = mv
2. Define impulse as force × time for which force acts; recall and use the equation

3. Apply the principle of the conservation of momentum to solve simple

ple problems in one
dimension
4. Define resultant force as the change in momentum per unit time; recall
all and use the equation
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 Topic 1. Motion, forces and energy
1.7 Energy, work and power

1.7.1 Energy
Content 1. State that energy may be stored as kinetic, gravitational potential, chemical, elastic (strain),
nuclear, electrostatic and internal (thermal)
2. Describe how energy is transferred between stores during events and processes, including
examples of transfer by forces (mechanical work done), electrical currents (electrical work
done), heating, and by electromagnetic, sound and other waves
3. Know
ow the principle of the conservation of energy and apply this principle to simple examples
including the interpretation of simple flow diagrams
4. Recall and use the equation for kinetic energy Ek = ½mv2
5. Recall and use the equation for the change in gravitational potential energy Ep
6. Know the principle of the conservation of energy and apply this principle to complex
examples involving multiple stages, including the interpretation of Sankey diagrams

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