AQA GCSE 8463 Physics specification: every spec point and its video lesson
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| Spec | Statement | Lesson | YT search phrase |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.1.1.1AQA 8463 | Energy stores and systems | Energy stores and the three ways a system's energy changes | ScholaFly PH05-01 |
| Energy transfer diagrams and the common scale | ScholaFly PH05-02 | ||
| 4.1.1.2aAQA 8463 | Changes in energy | Kinetic energy | ScholaFly PH05-05 |
| 4.1.1.2bAQA 8463 | Changes in energy | Elastic potential energy | ScholaFly PH05-07 |
| 4.1.1.2cAQA 8463 | Changes in energy | Gravitational potential energy | ScholaFly PH05-06 |
| 4.1.1.3AQA 8463 | Energy changes in systems | Specific heat capacity | ScholaFly PH08-05 |
| 4.1.1.4AQA 8463 | Power | Power as the rate of energy transfer | ScholaFly PH05-04 |
| 4.1.2.1AQA 8463 | Energy transfers in a system | Conservation of energy and dissipation | ScholaFly PH06-01 |
| Reducing unwanted energy transfers | ScholaFly PH06-02 | ||
| 4.1.2.2aAQA 8463 | Efficiency | Efficiency | ScholaFly PH06-03 |
| 4.1.2.2bAQA 8463 | Efficiency | Increasing efficiency (Higher) | ScholaFly PH06-04 |
| 4.1.3AQA 8463 | National and global energy resources | Energy resources and how we use them | ScholaFly PH06-05 |
| Reliability, environmental impact and the move away from fossil fuels | ScholaFly PH06-06 | ||
| 4.2.1.1AQA 8463 | Standard circuit diagram symbols | Circuit diagrams and standard symbols | ScholaFly PH10-01 |
| 4.2.1.2AQA 8463 | Electrical charge and current | Charge, current and Q = It | ScholaFly PH10-02 |
| 4.2.1.3AQA 8463 | Current, resistance and potential difference | Resistance and V = IR | ScholaFly PH10-05 |
| 4.2.1.4AQA 8463 | Resistors | I-V characteristics: ohmic conductor, filament lamp and diode | ScholaFly PH10-06 |
| Thermistors and light-dependent resistors | ScholaFly PH10-07 | ||
| 4.2.2AQA 8463 | Series and parallel circuits | Series circuits | ScholaFly PH10-08 |
| Parallel circuits | ScholaFly PH10-09 | ||
| 4.2.3.1AQA 8463 | Direct and alternating potential difference | Direct and alternating potential difference and the mains supply | ScholaFly PH11-06 |
| 4.2.3.2AQA 8463 | Mains electricity | Mains wiring: live, neutral and earth | ScholaFly PH11-07 |
| Electrical safety: fuses, circuit breakers and earthing | ScholaFly PH11-08 | ||
| 4.2.4.1AQA 8463 | Power | Electrical power: P = VI and P = I^2 R | ScholaFly PH11-01 |
| 4.2.4.2AQA 8463 | Energy transfers in everyday appliances | Potential difference and E = QV | ScholaFly PH10-03 |
| Energy transferred by an appliance: E = Pt and E = IVt | ScholaFly PH11-02 | ||
| Domestic appliances and power ratings | ScholaFly PH11-03 | ||
| 4.2.4.3AQA 8463 | The National Grid | The National Grid | ScholaFly PH11-09 |
| 4.2.5.1AQA 8463 | Static charge | Static charge: charging by friction, attraction and repulsion | ScholaFly PH12-01 |
| Sparking, earthing, and the uses and dangers of static | ScholaFly PH12-02 | ||
| 4.2.5.2AQA 8463 | Electric fields | Electric fields (triple) | ScholaFly PH12-03 |
| 4.3.1.1AQA 8463 | Density of materials | The particle model and the states of matter | ScholaFly PH08-01 |
| Density | ScholaFly PH08-02 | ||
| 4.3.1.2AQA 8463 | Changes of state | Changes of state and conservation of mass | ScholaFly PH08-03 |
| 4.3.2.1AQA 8463 | Internal energy | Internal energy and what heating does to a system | ScholaFly PH08-04 |
| 4.3.2.2AQA 8463 | Temperature changes in a system and specific heat capacity | Specific heat capacity | ScholaFly PH08-05 |
| 4.3.2.3AQA 8463 | Changes of state and specific latent heat | Specific latent heat of fusion and of vaporisation | ScholaFly PH08-06 |
| 4.3.3.1AQA 8463 | Particle motion in gases | Gas particles, temperature and pressure | ScholaFly PH08-07 |
| 4.3.3.2AQA 8463 | Pressure in gases | Gases under pressure: pV = constant (triple) | ScholaFly PH08-09 |
| 4.3.3.3AQA 8463 | Increasing the pressure of a gas | Doing work on a gas raises its temperature (triple, Higher) | ScholaFly PH08-10 |
| 4.4.1.1AQA 8463 | The structure of an atom | The structure and size of an atom | ScholaFly PH19-01 |
| Electron energy levels and ions | ScholaFly PH19-04 | ||
| 4.4.1.2AQA 8463 | Mass number, atomic number and isotopes | Protons, neutrons and electrons | ScholaFly PH19-02 |
| Atomic number, mass number and isotopes | ScholaFly PH19-03 | ||
| 4.4.1.3AQA 8463 | The development of the model of the atom (common content with chemistry) | How the model of the atom changed | ScholaFly PH19-06 |
| 4.4.2.1AQA 8463 | Radioactive decay and nuclear radiation | Radioactive decay is random: activity and count-rate | ScholaFly PH20-01 |
| Alpha, beta, gamma and neutron radiation compared | ScholaFly PH20-02 | ||
| 4.4.2.2AQA 8463 | Nuclear equations | Nuclear equations for alpha and beta decay | ScholaFly PH20-04 |
| 4.4.2.3aAQA 8463 | Half-lives and the random nature of radioactive decay | Half-life | ScholaFly PH20-05 |
| 4.4.2.3bAQA 8463 | Half-lives and the random nature of radioactive decay | Net decline after a number of half-lives | ScholaFly PH20-06 |
| 4.4.2.4AQA 8463 | Radioactive contamination | Contamination and irradiation | ScholaFly PH21-02 |
| The dangers of ionising radiation and the precautions taken | ScholaFly PH21-03 | ||
| 4.4.3.1AQA 8463 | Background radiation | Background radiation | ScholaFly PH21-01 |
| 4.4.3.2AQA 8463 | Different half-lives of radioactive isotopes | Why the hazard of a source depends on its half-life (triple) | ScholaFly PH21-04 |
| 4.4.3.3AQA 8463 | Uses of nuclear radiation | Uses of radioactivity in medicine and industry (triple) | ScholaFly PH21-05 |
| 4.4.4.1AQA 8463 | Nuclear fission | Nuclear fission and the chain reaction (triple) | ScholaFly PH21-06 |
| 4.4.4.2AQA 8463 | Nuclear fusion | Nuclear fusion (triple) | ScholaFly PH21-07 |
| 4.5.1.1AQA 8463 | Scalar and vector quantities | Scalars and vectors | ScholaFly PH01-02 |
| 4.5.1.2AQA 8463 | Contact and non-contact forces | Contact and non-contact forces | ScholaFly PH03-01 |
| 4.5.1.3AQA 8463 | Gravity | Weight, mass and gravitational field strength | ScholaFly PH03-02 |
| 4.5.1.4aAQA 8463 | Resultant forces | Resultant forces | ScholaFly PH03-03 |
| 4.5.1.4bAQA 8463 | Resultant forces | Free body diagrams (Higher) | ScholaFly PH03-04 |
| 4.5.1.4cAQA 8463 | Resultant forces | Resolving forces with a scale vector diagram (Higher) | ScholaFly PH03-05 |
| 4.5.2AQA 8463 | Work done and energy transfer | Work done and energy transfer | ScholaFly PH05-03 |
| 4.5.3AQA 8463 | Forces and elasticity | Elastic and inelastic deformation | ScholaFly PH03-06 |
| Hooke's law and the spring constant | ScholaFly PH03-07 | ||
| Elastic potential energy | ScholaFly PH05-07 | ||
| 4.5.4AQA 8463 | Moments, levers and gears | Moments and the principle of moments (triple) | ScholaFly PH03-08 |
| Levers and gears (triple) | ScholaFly PH03-09 | ||
| 4.5.5.1.1AQA 8463 | Pressure in a fluid 1 | Pressure in a fluid: p = F/A (triple) | ScholaFly PH09-01 |
| 4.5.5.1.2AQA 8463 | Pressure in a fluid 2 | Pressure, depth and density: p = h rho g (triple) | ScholaFly PH09-03 |
| Upthrust, floating and sinking (triple, Higher) | ScholaFly PH09-04 | ||
| 4.5.5.2AQA 8463 | Atmospheric pressure | Atmospheric pressure (triple) | ScholaFly PH09-02 |
| 4.5.6.1.1AQA 8463 | Distance and displacement | Distance and displacement | ScholaFly PH01-03 |
| 4.5.6.1.2AQA 8463 | Speed | Speed, typical speeds and s = vt | ScholaFly PH01-04 |
| Measuring speed in the laboratory | ScholaFly PH01-06 | ||
| 4.5.6.1.3aAQA 8463 | Velocity | Velocity | ScholaFly PH01-05 |
| 4.5.6.1.3bAQA 8463 | Velocity | Circular motion: constant speed, changing velocity (Higher) | ScholaFly PH04-06 |
| 4.5.6.1.4aAQA 8463 | The distance–time relationship | Distance-time graphs | ScholaFly PH02-01 |
| 4.5.6.1.4bAQA 8463 | The distance–time relationship | Speed at an instant from a tangent (Higher) | ScholaFly PH02-02 |
| 4.5.6.1.5aAQA 8463 | Acceleration | Acceleration and velocity-time graphs | ScholaFly PH02-03 |
| 4.5.6.1.5bAQA 8463 | Acceleration | Distance from the area under a velocity-time graph | ScholaFly PH02-04 |
| 4.5.6.1.5cAQA 8463 | Acceleration | The uniform acceleration equation: v^2 - u^2 = 2as | ScholaFly PH02-05 |
| Terminal velocity | ScholaFly PH04-05 | ||
| 4.5.6.1.5dAQA 8463 | Acceleration | Terminal velocity | ScholaFly PH04-05 |
| 4.5.6.2.1aAQA 8463 | Newton's First Law | Newton's First Law | ScholaFly PH04-01 |
| 4.5.6.2.1bAQA 8463 | Newton's First Law | Inertia and inertial mass (Higher) | ScholaFly PH04-03 |
| 4.5.6.2.2aAQA 8463 | Newton's Second Law | Newton's Second Law: F = ma | ScholaFly PH04-02 |
| 4.5.6.2.2bAQA 8463 | Newton's Second Law | Inertia and inertial mass (Higher) | ScholaFly PH04-03 |
| 4.5.6.2.3AQA 8463 | Newton's Third Law | Newton's Third Law | ScholaFly PH04-04 |
| 4.5.6.3.1aAQA 8463 | Stopping distance | Stopping distance | ScholaFly PH07-02 |
| 4.5.6.3.1bAQA 8463 | Stopping distance | Estimating how stopping distance grows with speed (triple) | ScholaFly PH07-08 |
| 4.5.6.3.2AQA 8463 | Reaction time | Reaction time and thinking distance | ScholaFly PH07-01 |
| 4.5.6.3.3AQA 8463 | Factors affecting braking distance 1 | Stopping distance | ScholaFly PH07-02 |
| 4.5.6.3.4aAQA 8463 | Factors affecting braking distance 2 | Braking, energy and large decelerations | ScholaFly PH07-03 |
| 4.5.6.3.4bAQA 8463 | Factors affecting braking distance 2 | Estimating the forces in a road-vehicle deceleration (Higher) | ScholaFly PH07-04 |
| 4.5.7.1AQA 8463 | Momentum is a property of moving objects | Momentum and p = mv (Higher) | ScholaFly PH07-05 |
| 4.5.7.2aAQA 8463 | Conservation of momentum | Conservation of momentum (Higher) | ScholaFly PH07-06 |
| 4.5.7.2bAQA 8463 | Conservation of momentum | Conservation of momentum (Higher) | ScholaFly PH07-06 |
| 4.5.7.3AQA 8463 | Changes in momentum | Force as the rate of change of momentum, and impact forces | ScholaFly PH07-07 |
| 4.6.1.1AQA 8463 | Transverse and longitudinal waves | What a wave does: energy without matter | ScholaFly PH15-01 |
| Transverse and longitudinal waves | ScholaFly PH15-02 | ||
| 4.6.1.2aAQA 8463 | Properties of waves | Amplitude, wavelength, frequency and period | ScholaFly PH15-03 |
| The wave equation | ScholaFly PH15-04 | ||
| Measuring the speed of a wave | ScholaFly PH15-05 | ||
| 4.6.1.2bAQA 8463 | Properties of waves | Sound crossing from one medium to another (triple) | ScholaFly PH16-01 |
| 4.6.1.3AQA 8463 | Reflection of waves | Reflection, transmission and absorption at a boundary (triple) | ScholaFly PH18-03 |
| 4.6.1.4AQA 8463 | Sound waves | Sound, the ear and the limits of human hearing (triple, Higher) | ScholaFly PH16-02 |
| 4.6.1.5AQA 8463 | Waves for detection and exploration | Ultrasound, infrasound and echo sounding (triple, Higher) | ScholaFly PH16-03 |
| Seismic waves and the Earth's structure (triple, Higher) | ScholaFly PH16-04 | ||
| 4.6.2.1AQA 8463 | Types of electromagnetic waves | The electromagnetic spectrum | ScholaFly PH17-01 |
| 4.6.2.2aAQA 8463 | Properties of electromagnetic waves 1 | Refraction at a boundary | ScholaFly PH18-01 |
| 4.6.2.2bAQA 8463 | Properties of electromagnetic waves 1 | Refraction at a boundary | ScholaFly PH18-01 |
| How different substances treat different wavelengths (Higher) | ScholaFly PH18-02 | ||
| 4.6.2.3aAQA 8463 | Properties of electromagnetic waves 2 | The hazards of electromagnetic radiation | ScholaFly PH17-03 |
| Radiation from atoms and nuclei | ScholaFly PH19-05 | ||
| 4.6.2.3bAQA 8463 | Properties of electromagnetic waves 2 | Radio waves and electrical oscillations (Higher) | ScholaFly PH17-04 |
| 4.6.2.4aAQA 8463 | Uses and applications of electromagnetic waves | Uses of each part of the electromagnetic spectrum | ScholaFly PH17-02 |
| 4.6.2.4bAQA 8463 | Uses and applications of electromagnetic waves | Uses of each part of the electromagnetic spectrum | ScholaFly PH17-02 |
| 4.6.2.5AQA 8463 | Lenses | Lenses and ray diagrams (triple) | ScholaFly PH18-05 |
| 4.6.2.6AQA 8463 | Visible light | Colour, filters, and specular versus diffuse reflection (triple) | ScholaFly PH18-06 |
| 4.6.3.1AQA 8463 | Emission and absorption of infrared radiation | Infrared emission and absorption, and black-body radiation (triple) | ScholaFly PH17-05 |
| 4.6.3.2aAQA 8463 | Perfect black bodies and radiation | Infrared emission and absorption, and black-body radiation (triple) | ScholaFly PH17-05 |
| 4.6.3.2bAQA 8463 | Perfect black bodies and radiation | Radiation balance and the temperature of the Earth (triple, Higher) | ScholaFly PH17-06 |
| 4.7.1.1AQA 8463 | Poles of a magnet | Magnetic poles, permanent and induced magnets | ScholaFly PH13-01 |
| 4.7.1.2AQA 8463 | Magnetic fields | Magnetic fields, plotting compasses and the Earth's field | ScholaFly PH13-02 |
| 4.7.2.1aAQA 8463 | Electromagnetism | The magnetic effect of a current, solenoids and electromagnets | ScholaFly PH13-03 |
| 4.7.2.1bAQA 8463 | Electromagnetism | Electromagnetic devices: relays and bells (triple) | ScholaFly PH13-07 |
| 4.7.2.2AQA 8463 | Fleming's left-hand rule | The motor effect and Fleming's left-hand rule (Higher) | ScholaFly PH13-04 |
| F = BIl (Higher) | ScholaFly PH13-05 | ||
| 4.7.2.3AQA 8463 | Electric motors | Electric motors (Higher) | ScholaFly PH13-06 |
| 4.7.2.4AQA 8463 | Loudspeakers | Microphones and loudspeakers (triple, Higher) | ScholaFly PH14-05 |
| 4.7.3.1AQA 8463 | Induced potential | Electromagnetic induction and the generator effect (Higher) | ScholaFly PH14-01 |
| 4.7.3.2AQA 8463 | Uses of the generator effect | Alternators and dynamos (triple, Higher) | ScholaFly PH14-04 |
| 4.7.3.3AQA 8463 | Microphones | Microphones and loudspeakers (triple, Higher) | ScholaFly PH14-05 |
| 4.7.3.4AQA 8463 | Transformers | Transformers and the turns-ratio equation (Higher) | ScholaFly PH14-02 |
| The transformer power equation and high-voltage transmission | ScholaFly PH14-03 | ||
| 4.8.1.1AQA 8463 | Our solar system | The Solar System and the Milky Way (triple) | ScholaFly PH22-01 |
| How a star forms and why it is stable (triple) | ScholaFly PH23-01 | ||
| 4.8.1.2AQA 8463 | The life cycle of a star | The life cycle of a star (triple) | ScholaFly PH23-02 |
| 4.8.1.3aAQA 8463 | Orbital motion, natural and artificial satellites | Orbits of moons, planets and satellites (triple) | ScholaFly PH22-04 |
| 4.8.1.3bAQA 8463 | Orbital motion, natural and artificial satellites | Circular orbits: gravity changes velocity, not speed (triple) | ScholaFly PH22-05 |
| 4.8.2AQA 8463 | Red-shift | Red-shift and the expanding Universe (triple) | ScholaFly PH23-03 |
| The Big Bang, the Steady State theory and the cosmic microwave background (triple) | ScholaFly PH23-04 | ||
| 8.2.1AQA 8463 | Required practical 1 - specific heat capacity | Practical: specific heat capacity | ScholaFly PH24-01 |
| 8.2.2AQA 8463 | Required practical 2 - thermal insulators (physics only) | Practical: thermal insulators | ScholaFly PH24-03 |
| 8.2.3AQA 8463 | Required practical 3 - resistance of a wire and of components | Practical: resistance of a wire and of components | ScholaFly PH24-06 |
| Practical: I-V characteristics | ScholaFly PH24-07 | ||
| 8.2.4AQA 8463 | Required practical 4 - I-V characteristics | Practical: I-V characteristics | ScholaFly PH24-07 |
| 8.2.5AQA 8463 | Required practical 5 - density of solids and liquids | Practical: density of solids and liquids | ScholaFly PH24-02 |
| 8.2.6AQA 8463 | Required practical 6 - force and extension of a spring | Practical: force and extension of a spring | ScholaFly PH24-04 |
| 8.2.7AQA 8463 | Required practical 7 - acceleration, force and mass | Practical: acceleration, force and mass | ScholaFly PH24-05 |
| 8.2.8AQA 8463 | Required practical 8 - waves in a ripple tank and in a solid | Practical: waves in a ripple tank and in a solid | ScholaFly PH24-08 |
| 8.2.9AQA 8463 | Required practical 9 - reflection and refraction of light (physics only) | Practical: reflection and refraction of light | ScholaFly PH24-09 |
| 8.2.10AQA 8463 | Required practical 10 - infrared emission and absorption | Practical: infrared emission and absorption | ScholaFly PH24-10 |