Understanding energy is a key requirement for GCSE. It allows us to explain what happens in the world around us and meeting our future energy demands is essential for our society.

Choose your topic:

​Energy Transfers

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• Stores and Transfers [FREE] - Energy can be stored in many ways

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• Stores and Transfers: Examples [FREE] - Descriptions of the changes involved 

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• Conservation and Efficiency [FREE] - Energy cannot be created or destroyed, just transferred

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• Thermal Transfers [FREE] - Including conduction, convection and infrared

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Work and Power

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• Work Done - Work is done when a force causes an object to move a distance

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• Gravitational Potential Energy [FREE] - When an object moves up or down​

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• Kinetic Energy [FREE] - How to calculate the energy stored in moving objects 

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• Power and Energy [FREE] - The rate of energy transfer

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Energy Resources and Electricity Production

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• Energy Resources [FREE] - The resources we use for electricity generation, heating and transport

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• Non-renewable Resources [FREE] - Coal, oil, gas and nuclear fission

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• Renewable Resources [FREE] - Wind, solar, hydro, wave and tidal

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