AQA GCSE Physics: Combined Science
Exam Questions

Energy Stores & Transfers, Examples of Energy Transfer, Kinetic Energy, Gravitational Potential Energy, Elastic Potential Energy, KE, GPE & EPE, Thermal Energy, Required Practical: Investigating Specific Heat Capacity, Changes in Energy, Power, Conservation & Dissipation of Energy, Wasted Energy, Conduction of Heat, Efficiency, Improving Efficiency

Energy Resources, Comparing Energy Resources, Environmental Issues

Circuit Diagrams, Charge & Current, Current, Resistance & Potential Difference, Required Practical: Investigating Resistance, Resistors, I–V Graphs, Thermistors, LDRs, Investigating Resistance in Thermistors & LDRs, Required Practical: Investigating I–V Characteristics

Series & Parallel Circuits, Resistors in Series & Parallel, Comparing Series & Parallel Circuits, AC & DC, Mains Electricity, Dangers of Mains Electricity

Electrical Power, Electrical Energy, Calculating Energy Transfers, Power Ratings, The National Grid, Use of Transformers

Density, Solids, Liquids & Gases, Required Practical: Determining Density, Changes of State

Internal Energy, Specific Heat Capacity, Latent Heat, Specific Latent Heat, Heating & Cooling Graphs, Specific Heat Capacity v Specific Latent Heat

Kinetic Theory

Atomic Structure, The Absorption & Emission of EM Radiation, Atomic & Mass Number, Isotopes, Positive Ions, The Plum Pudding Model, Rutherford Scattering, Bohr's Model of the Atom, Discovery of the Proton & Neutron, Changes in the Atomic Model

Radioactive Decay, Types of Radiation, Uses of Radiation, Alpha Decay, Beta Decay, Gamma Decay, Random Nature of Radioactive Decay, Half-Life, Calculating Radioactive Decay, Contamination & Irradiation, Hazards of Contamination & Irradiation, Studies into the Effects of Radiation

Scalars & Vectors, Contact & Non-Contact Forces, Forces as Vectors, Weight, Mass & Gravity, Calculating Weight, Resultant Forces, Free Body Diagrams, Balanced & Unbalanced Forces

Work Done, Work Done & Energy Transfer, Work Done & Friction

Changing Shape, Hooke's Law, Force–Extension Graphs, Work Done on a Spring, Required Practical: Investigating Force & Extension

Distance & Displacement, Speed, Measuring Speed, Calculating Speed, Velocity, Vector & Scalar Quantities, Circular Motion, Distance-Time Graphs, Instantaneous Speed, Acceleration, Velocity-Time Graphs, Area Under Velocity-Time Graphs, Calculating Uniform Acceleration, Terminal Velocity

Newton's First Law, Newton's Second Law, Required Practical: Investigating Force & Acceleration, Newton's Third Law, Inertia

Thinking & Braking Distances, Reaction Time, Factors Affecting Thinking Distance & Reaction Time, Factors Affecting Braking Distance, Estimating Decelerating Forces

Momentum, Conservation of Momentum, Collisions

Transverse & Longitudinal Waves, Describing Wave Motion, The Wave Equation, Measuring the Speed of Waves, Required Practical: Measuring Wave Properties

Electromagnetic (EM) Waves, Transfer of Energy by EM Waves, EM Waves & Matter, Refraction Ray Diagrams, Required Practical: Investigating Infrared Radiation, EM Waves & Atoms, Radio Waves, Dangers of High-Energy EM Waves, Applications of EM Waves

Magnetism, Permanent & Induced Magnets, Magnetic Fields, The Earth's Magnetic Field

Magnetic Fields in Wires & Solenoids, The Motor Effect, Fleming's Left-Hand Rule, Electric Motors