Middle+school+physics

=Forces= What is a force? What is the difference between mass and weight? What is air resistance? What is terminal velocity? How do forces affect an object's motion? How do forces affect materials?

=Energy= What is energy? What is gravitational potential energy? What is kinetic energy? How are fossil fuels made? What are non-renewable energy sources? What are renewable energy sources? What is efficiency?

=Electrical circuits= How do we charges insulators? What is current? What is potential difference? What is resistance? Why do we draw circuit diagrams? What are series circuits? What are parallel circuits? What are the dangers of electricity? Why do we use fuses and circuit breakers?

=The Solar System and beyond= What can we see in the night sky? How did the universe form? How do stars live and die? How did the chemical elements form? What is red shift? What causes the seasons?

=Magnets and electromagnets= How does a DC motor work?

=Light= What are the properties of waves? What is light? What is reflection? What is refraction? What is the critical angle? What is diffraction? What is dispersion? What is the electromagnetic spectrum?

=Sound= What is sound? How do we detect sound? What is the doppler effect?

NOT ON TEST FOR Y8 =Heating and cooling= What are the states of matter? What is evaporation? What is the difference between heat and temperature? What is the difference between melting and boiling? What is conduction? What is convection What is radiation?

=Pressure and moments= What is a turning moment? Where can I find the centre of mass? How can I reduce the pressure I am under? What are hydraulics? What is density?

=Speeding up= How do we do physics? How do we measure time? What is the difference between speed and velocity? What does a distance-time graph and velocity-time graph show? How does physics affect driving?