Curriculum Plans – Key Stage 4 Physics Please find below a detailed outline of the curriculum covered in Physics through Year 10 in Key Stage 4. Year 10 Assessment Block 1 Forces and Pressure (Unit 3) Block 2 Forces and Energy (Unit 4) Block 3 Block 4 Thermal Effects Waves and (Unit 5) Sounds (Unit 6) • Moving • Forces and • Work and particles • Transverse and turning energy • Temperature longitudinal effects • Energy waves • Expanding • Centre of transformation solids and • Wave effects mass • Calculating PE liquids • Sound waves • More about and KE • Heating gases • Speed of sound moments • Efficiency and • Thermal and echoes • Stretching power conduction • Ultrasound and • Energy for • Convection compressing electricity Rays and Waves • Thermal • Pressure (Unit 7) • Energy radiation • Pressure in resources • Liquids and liquids • Light rays and • How the vapours waves • Hydraulic world gets its • Specific heat systems energy • Reflection capacity • Pressure • Refraction • Latent heat from the air • Total internal • Gas reflection pressure • Refraction and volume calculations • Pressure • Lenses problems • Electromagnetic waves • Sending and sorting Block 5 Electricity (Unit 8) Block 6 Electricity (Unit 8) • Electric charge • Electric fields • Current in a simple circuit • Potential difference • Resistance • Ohms Law • Series and parallel circuits • Electrical energy and power • Living with electricity End of Unit Assessment End of Unit Assessment End of Unit Assessment End of Unit Assessment End of Unit Assessment Magnets and Currents (Unit 9) Block 7 Magnets and Electricity (Unit 9) • More about induced currents • Generators • Coils and transformers • Power across the country • Magnets • Magnetic fields • Magnetic effect of a current • Electromagnets • Magnetic force on a current • Electric motors • Electromagnetic induction End of Unit Assessment Cesta 24. junija 92, 1231 Ljubljana-Črnuče, Slovenia Tel +386 (0)40 486 548 · www.britishschool.si · enquiries@britishschool.si End of Unit Assessment
