GCSE Physics – Topic 1.1 – Physical Quantities and Measurement Techniques
-- Core -- | ✔ |
Describe the use of rulers and measuring cylinders to find a length or a volume. | |
Describe how to measure a variety of time intervals using clocks and digital timers. | |
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). | |
-- Extended -- | ✔ |
Understand that a scalar quantity has magnitude (size) only and that a vector quantity has magnitude and direction. | |
Know that the following quantities are scalars: distance, speed, time, mass, energy and temperature. | |
Know that the following quantities are vectors: force, weight, velocity, acceleration, momentum, electric field strength and gravitational field strength. | |
Determine, by calculation or graphically, the resultant of two vectors at right angles, limited to forces or velocities only. |