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Speed and Velocity are Both How Fast You’re Going
What do speed and velocity both say,
What are both speed and velocity ...,
What is the difference between sp...
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Acceleration is How Quickly Velocity is Changing
What is acceleration not the same as,
What is acceleration,
What can this change in velocity be
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Distance-Time Graphs Tell You How Far Something has Travelled
What does the gradient at any poi...,
What do flat sections on a graph ...,
What does a steeper graph mean
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Velocity-Time Graphs can have a Positive or Negative Gradient
What does the gradient,
What do flat sections represent,
The steeper the graph
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Gravity is the Force of Attraction Between All Masses
What does gravity attract,
When do we only notice gravity in...,
What is attracted to it very stro...
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Weight and Mass are Not the Same
What is mass,
Mass will have the same anywhere ...,
What is weight caused by
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The Very Important Formula Relating Mass, Weight and Gravity
What is the formula relating grav...,
What is mass measured in,
What is weight measured in
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There are Loads of Different Types of Force
What is a force,
Gravity or weight,
Reaction force
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You Can Draw the Forces Acting on a Body
Why don t we notice all the force...,
What does any object with a weigh...,
What happens when an object moves...
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Friction is Always There to Slow Things Down
Why will an object always slow do...,
What is friction,
What needs to happen to travel at...
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You can Investigate the Motion of a Toy Car on a Ramp
Look at the apparatus set up on p...,
Why do you mark a line on the ramp,
Why do you need to measure the di...
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You Could Play Around with the Experimental Set-up
Why would you want to change diff...,
What do you need to ensure if you...,
How could you see if mass affects...
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First Law - Balanced Forces Means No Change in Velocity
What is the first law,
If anything is moving at a consta...,
Do things need a constant overall...
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Second Law - A Resultant Force Means Acceleration
What is the second law,
What is the overall unbalanced fo...,
What will an unbalanced for alway...
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Resultant Force = Mass x Acceleration
The bigger the force,
The bigger the mass,
What does a small mass need to ac...
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Resultant Force is Real Important - Especially for ‘F = ma’
How many forces are acting on an ...,
What will these overall effects o...,
If the forces act along the same ...
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The Third Law - Reaction Forces
What is the third law,
What does this mean if you push s...,
As soon as you stop pushing what ...
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Vectors Have Size and Direction - Scalar Quantities Only Have Size
What is useful to know when there...,
How do you do this know resultant...,
What kind of quantity is force
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To Work Out Resultant Force You Need to Combine Vectors
Check out examples diagrams page 8
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Moving Objects Can Reach a Terminal Velocity
Frictional forces increase with s...,
What does an object have when it ...,
As it s velocity increases
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The Terminal Velocity of Falling Objects Depends on Their Shape and Area
What is the accelerating force ac...,
What stops gravity from making al...,
How is the need for air resistanc...
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Hooke’s Law Says that Extension is Proportional to Force
What is the length of an unstretc...,
What is done if a metal wire is s...,
The weight pulls down with the fo...
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You Can Investigate Hooke’s Law with a Spring
What do you do first,
What do you need to ensure for th...,
What do you do second
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Hooke’s Law Stops Working when the Force is Great Enough
What is there a limit to,
What does the graph show,
What does the first part of the g...
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A Material Can Return to its Original Shape After an Elastic Deformation
How does a material display elast...,
Metals display elastic behaviour ...
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Many Factors Affect Your Total Stopping Distance
What is the stopping distance of ...,
What is the distance it takes to ...,
What is the formula for stopping ...
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Thinking Distance
What two main factors affect thin...,
How fast you re going,
Your reaction time
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Braking Distance
What four main factors is braking...,
How fast you re going,
The mass of the vehicle
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Momentum = Mass x Velocity
The greater the mass of an object...,
What kind of quantity is momentum,
What is the formula relating velo...
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Momentum Before = Momentum After
When is momentum conserved,
What is the total momentum after ...,
Momentum before
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Forces Cause Changes in Momentum
What does a force do when it acts...,
What is the formula relating time...,
What is force measured in
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A Moment is the Turning Effect of a Force
What is the formula relating forc...,
What do the force on the spanner do,
What would a larger force mean
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The Centre of Gravity Hangs Directly Below the Point of Suspensión
What can you think of the centre ...,
Why will a freely suspended objec...,
The objects weight acts at a dist...
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A Question of Balance - Are the Moments Equal?
What does the principle of moment...,
What can you use this idea to hel...
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Forces are Not Always Equal Across All Supports
What happens if a light rod is be...,
What happens if a heavy object is...,
Look at the example on page 14
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And if the Moments are Not Equal...
When will there be a resultant mo...,
What does this mean for the objec...
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The Properties of a Circuit
What is current,
What usually carries the charge,
Current will only flow through a ...
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The Standard Test Circuit
What does the ammeter measure,
What must the ammeter be placed in,
What does the voltmeter measure
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Five Important Points
1 what is this very basic circuit...,
2 what are the component ammeter ...,
3 what happens as you vary the va...
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Mains Supply is a.c, Battery Supply is d.c
What is the uk mains electricity ...,
What does ac supply mean,
What does ac stand for
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There’s a Formula Linking V and I
What is the formula relating resi...,
What does the gradient of an i v ...,
The steeper the graph
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Four Hideously Important Current-Voltage Graphs
What do current voltage graphs do,
Wire,
Different resistors
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Light-Emitting Diodes are Really Useful
What does led stand for,
When do leds emit light,
What are they used for
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Some Components Can Change Resistance
What is an ldr,
What does ldr stand for,
What happens to the resistance wh...
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Series Circuits - All or Nothing
In a series circuit how are the d...,
Which component is the only excep...,
What happens if you remove or dis...
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Parallel Circuits - Everything is Independent
How is each component connected,
What happens if you remove or dis...,
What are some examples of everyda...
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Charge Through a Circuit Depends on Current and Time
What is current,
What is charge carried by in soli...,
What is the equation relating tim...
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When a Charge Drops Through a Voltage it Transfers Energy
When an electrical charge goes th...,
How is energy supplied to the charge,
When does the charge give up this...
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Appliances must be Earthed or Insulated
What are the three live wires in ...,
Which two wires are only usually ...,
What does the live wire alternate...
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Earthing and Fuses Prevent Fires and Shocks
If a fault develops in which the ...,
What does this surge in current do,
What does the cutting off of the ...
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Circuit Breakers Have Some Advantages Over Fuses
What are circuit breakers,
What do circuit breakers do,
What do circuit breakers do when ...
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Resistors Get Hot When an Electric Current Passes Through Them
What happens when there is an ele...,
Why does this happen,
What does this give the ions
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Electrical Power and Fuse Ratings
What is electrical power,
How much energy does an appliance...,
Where does this energy come from
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Electrical Appliances Transfer Energy Electrically
What does the energy transferred ...,
What is the formula for energy tr...
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Like Charges Repel, Opposite Charges Attract
Two things with opposite electric...,
Two things with the same electric...,
These forces get the further apar...
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Conductors Conduct Charges - Insulators Don’t
How well do materials that are el...,
How well do materials that are el...,
Examples of electric insulators
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A Static Charge Cannot Move
What is a static charge,
Where are these more common stati...,
What is a common cause of static ...
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As Charge Builds Up, So Does the Voltage
What happens as electric charge b...,
What happens if the voltage gets ...,
What can the electrons also jump to
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Investigating Static Electricity
What can static charges be caused by,
What is a classic example of this,
What happens when the polythene r...
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Gold-Leaf Electroscope
What can you use a gold leaf elec...,
How is a gold leaf electroscope s...,
What happens when a rod with a ch...
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Suspending a Charged Rod
How do you set up the experiment,
What can we say if there is an at...,
What can we say if there is a rep...
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Van de Graaf Generators Make Your Hair Stand on End
What is a van de graaff generator...,
What is it made up of,
Where and how is an electrostatic...
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Inkjet Printer
1 what happens first,
2 what happens to the droplets wh...,
3 how do the droplets react to ea...
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Photocopier
1 what happens to the plate,
2 light,
3 dark
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Clothing Crackles
What happens when synthetic cloth...,
What does this lead
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Lightning
How is lightning formed,
What is created because of this
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The Fuel-Filling Nightmare
What happens as fuel flows out of...,
What can this easily lead to,
What is the solution to this
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All Waves Have Wavelength, Frequency, Amplitude and Speed
What is wavelength,
What is frequency,
What is frequency measured in
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Wave Speed = Frequency x Wavelength
What is the formula relating wave...,
What do waves often have
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Waves Can Be Transverse or Longitudinal
What are most waves,
What are some examples of transve...,
In transverse waves
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All Waves Transfer Energy and Information Without a Transferring Matter
What do all waves do in the direc...,
What is an example of this transf...,
What can sound waves make things do
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Two or More Waves Moving Together Have Wavefronts
When is it useful to talk about w...,
What are wavefronts,
What is the distance between each...
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The Doppler Effect Makes Waves Longer or Shorter
What will the waves produced by a...,
Why is this,
What does this cause the wavefron...
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There are Seven Types of Electromagnetic (EM) Waves
What do electromagnetic waves wit...,
What are they grouped into,
What are the types merge to form
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Radio Waves are Used Mainly for Communications
What are radio waves,
What can be done to long wave rad...,
What can be done to short wave ra...
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Microwaves are Used for Satellite Communication and Heating Food
How long are the wavelengths of a...,
What can microwaves be used for,
What uses microwaves
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Infrared Radiation is a Used for Heating and to Monitor Temperature
What is infrared radiation also k...,
What do electrical heaters radiat...,
What is ir given out by
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Light Signals Can Travel Through Optical Fibres
What can visible light also be us...,
What do optical fibres do,
How do optical fibres work
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Visible Light is Also Useful for Photography
What do cameras use a lens for,
What does the lens aperture do,
What does the shutter speed deter...
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Ultraviolet is Used in Fluorescent Lamps
What is fluorescence a property of,
Why do fluorescent colours look s...,
What do fluorescent light use to ...
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X-Rays Let Us See Inside Things
What are x rays used to do,
How are x ray images made,
Why do radiographers in hospitals...
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Gamma Radiation Can be Very Useful For Sterilising Medical Equipment
Why are gamma rays used to steril...,
Why is this better than trying to...
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Gamma Radiation Can be Very Useful For Sterilising Food
How can food be sterilised,
What effect does this have on food,
Why is the food perfectly safe to...
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Some EM Radiation Can be Harmful to People
Some em radiation mostly passes t...,
What happens to other types of ra...,
What can some radiations cause
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Higher Frequency EM Radiation is Usually More Dangerous
What do the effects of em radiati...,
The higher the frequency of em ra...,
In general which waves are less h...
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Reflection of Light Lets Us See Things
What kind of wave is visible light,
What is reflection of visible light,
What happens when light reflects ...
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Waves Can be Refracted
When do waves travel at different...,
What do em waves travel more slow...,
What do sound waves travel faster in
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Draw A Ray Diagram for a Refracted Wave
What does a ray diagram show,
What do you do first,
What do you do second
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Rays Passing Through a Glass Block are Refracted Twice
How can you experiment with refra...,
What do you do first,
What happens after step 1
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Triangular Prisms Disperse White Light
Different wavelengths of light re...,
What does this mean,
When does a similar effect happen
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Every Transparent Material Has a Refractive Index
What does the refractive index of...,
What is the formula for refractiv...,
Why is the refractive index of gl...
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Find the Refractive Index of Glass a Using a Glass Block
What do you do first draw,
What do you do second trace,
What do you do third normal
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Use Semicircular Blocks to Show Total Internal Reflection
What does light going from a mate...,
What happens if you increase the ...,
What does the angle of incidence ...
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You Can Use Snell’s Law to find Critical Angles
What equation can you use to find...,
What is n,
The higher the refractive index
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Optical Fibres and Prisms Use Total Internal Reflection
Of what do optical fibres made of...,
Of the core of the fibre is so na...,
Of when does it only stop working
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Sound Travels as a Wave
What are sound waves,
What are the vibrations passed th...,
What may the sound eventually reach
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An Oscilloscope Can Display Sound Waves
What can a sound wave receiver eg...,
How do they display these sound w...,
What does the microphone then do
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Loudness Increases with Amplitude
The greater the amplitude of a wave,
What does this mean in sound,
What will lo under sound waves al...
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The Higher the Frequency, the Higher the Pitch
What is frequency,
What is frequency measured in,
What are other common units that ...
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Find the Period of a Wave on an Oscilloscope to get its Frequency
What does the horizontal axis on ...,
What can be done between each div...,
When do you adjust the time decis...
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You Can Use an Oscilloscope to Measure the Speed of Sound
What can you do by attaching a si...,
What can you use two microphones ...,
What can the detected waves at ea...
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Energy is Transferred Between Energy Stores
What can energy be held in,
Kinetic,
Thermal
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There is a Principle of Conservation of Energy
Energy always obeys this principle,
What is a closed system
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Most Energy Transfers Involve Some Losses, Often by Heating
Energy is only useful when it is,
What always happens to some of th...,
What does the law of conservation...
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You can Calculate the Efficiency of an Energy Transfer
Efficiency equation,
What can the efficiency never be ...
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How to Use the a Formula - Nothing to It
How to find total energy output,
How to find useful energy output,
What do you do after you have bot...
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We Generally Can’t do Anything Useful with Wasted Energy
Where is waisted energy transferr...,
What happens as the energy is tra...,
According to the principal of con...
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A Ball Rolling Up a Slope
How is the energy transferred,
Where is there energy transferred...,
Some energy is transferred to the
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A Bat Hitting a Ball
How is the energy transferred,
What is the energy transferred fr...,
What are some of wasted energy st...
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An Electric Kettle Boiling Water
How is the energy transferred,
Where is the energy transferred f...
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A Battery-Powered Toy Car
How is the energy transferred,
Where is the energy transferred f...,
What are some of the wasted energ...
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A Bunsen Burner and Beaker
How is the energy transferred,
Where is the energy transferred f...,
Wasted energy stores
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The Thickness of the Arrow Represents the Amount of Energy
What is the idea of a sankey diagram,
The thicker the arrow,
How big is the arrow going in
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Energy Transfer by Heating can Happen in Three Different Ways
What are the three way energy can...,
What is thermal radiation,
What is conduction
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Thermal Radiation Involves Emission of Electromagnetic Waves
What can thermal radiation also b...,
What does thermal radiation consi...,
What is it next to in the electro...
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Conduction - Occurs Mainly in Solids
In a solid the particles are held,
What is thermal conduction,
What happens when one particle vi...
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You Can do an Experiment to Demonstrate Conduction
What do you do attach to the meta...,
What do you do to the metal bar s...,
What happens as time goes on
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Convection of Heat - Liquids and Gases Only
When does convection occur,
Why can t convection happen in so...
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The Immersion Heater Example
1 where is energy transferred from,
2 what happens to the particles n...,
3 what does the reduction in dens...
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You Can See Convection Currents Using Coloured Crystals
What do you first with the crystals,
What do you do second,
As the temp of water around the p...
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You Can Reduce the Rate of Energy Transfer
What do all objects have,
What does thermal conductivity de...,
Materials with a transfer energy b
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You Can Investigate Emission of Thermal Radiation With a Leslie Cube
What is a leslie cube,
What can you use leslie cubes to ...,
1 where do you place the empty le...
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‘Work Done’ is Just ‘Energy Transferred’
What happens when a force moves a...,
What has to happen to make someth...,
What does the thing applying the ...
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And Another Formula to Learn
What is the formula for work done,
When does the formula only work
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Power is the ‘Rate of Doing Work’ - I.e How Much per Second
What is power a measure of,
How can you define power,
What is the power of a machine
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Movement Means a Energy in an Object’s Kinetic Energy Store
Anything that s moving has,
When is energy transferred to thi...,
When is energy transferred away f...
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Raised Objects Store a Energy in Gravitational Potential Energy Stores
What does lifting an object in a ...,
What does this cause,
The higher the object is lifted
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Falling Objects Also Transfer Energy
What happens when something falls,
Equation for energy lost from the...,
In real life what does air resist...
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Non-Renewable Energy Resources Will Run Out One Day
What are the two broad types of e...,
What are the non renewables,
What are the three fossil fuels a...
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Most Power Stations Use Steam to Drive a Turbine
What is the most electricity we u...,
What happens as the fossil fuels ...,
What does the water boil to form
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Advantages of Fossil Fuels
1 a lot,
2 reliable,
3 money
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Disadvantages of Fossil Fuels
1 co2,
2 acid rain,
3 stock
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Nuclear Reactors are Just Fancy Boilers
What does nuclear fission produce...,
What happens during the process i...,
What is bad about nuclear reactors
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Wind Farms - Lots of Wind Turbines
What does wind power involve,
What do wind turbines use energy ...,
What is good about wind turbines
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Geothermal Power - Heat from Underground
Where is this only possible,
What is the source of much of the...,
What is done first with water
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You Can Capture the Sun’s Energy Using Solar Cells
What do solar cells use,
What do solar cells generate,
What does the sun provide
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Solar Water Heating Panels
What are solar water heating panels,
What does the glass do,
How expensive are they
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Cooking with Solar Power
What happens if you get a curved ...,
What do solar ovens do,
What do they need to work and why
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Wave Power - Lots of Little Wave Converters
What is one way of harvesting wav...,
What happens as waves come in to ...,
What is the energy transferred to...
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Tidal Barrages Generate Energy When the Tide Goes In and Out
What are tidal barrages,
What happens as the tide comes in,
What can this water then do
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Hydroelectricity - Catching Rainwater
What does hydroelectric power oft...,
What is done to the rainwater,
Where does it transfer energy fro...
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Pumped Storage Gives Extra Supply Just When it’s Needed
What do most large power stations...,
What does this mean in terms of e...,
What is one of the best solutions
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Density is Mass per Unit Volume
What is density a measure of,
What does it relate to,
What is the formula for density
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You Can Find the Density of an Object from its Mass and Volume
How do you measure the density of...,
What do you do if it s a box shape,
What do you do if it s an irregul...
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Pressure is Force per Unit Area
What is pressure a measure of,
What does it relate,
What units is pressure measured in
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Pressure Differences in Liquids and Gases Depends on Density
What is pressure difference,
What does pressure difference dep...,
What also has an effect
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Kinetic Theory Can Explain the Three States of Matter
What are the three states of matter,
What are the particles of a subst...,
Forces of attraction in solids
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Evaporation is a Special Example of Changing States
What is evaporation,
What can particles evaporate from,
What can particles near the surfa...
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You Can Obtain a Temperature-Time Graph for Water
What can you do an experiment to ...,
What do you do first,
What do you do with the bunsen bu...
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Absolute Zero is as Cold as Stuff Can Get - 0 Kelvins
What are you doing if you increas...,
What is the coldest anything can get,
What happens in terms of particle...
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Energy in Particles’ Kinetic Energy Stores is Proportional to Temperature
What does particle theory say abo...,
How much space do the particles t...,
What do the particles constantly ...
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Particle Theory Says Colliding Gas Particles Create Pressure
What happens as gas particles mov...,
What do gases do when they collid...,
What do gas particles do in a sea...
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At Constant Temperature ‘pV = Constant’
For a fixed mass of gas at a cons...,
P1v1
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At Constant Volume ‘p/T = Constant’
In a sealed container i e constan...,
P1 t1
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Specific Heat Capacity Relates Temperature and Energy
What does heating a substance do ...,
What is this referred to as,
What is temp a way of measuring
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You can Find the Specific Heat Capacity of Water
If you can what should you use fo...,
What do you do first,
What do you do second
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Magnets Produce Magnetic Fields
What do all magnets have,
What is a magnetic field,
What are magnetic field lines use...
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Magnetic Field Patterns can be Seen Using Compasses
What align themselves with magnet...,
What can you use multiple compass...,
What could you also use to see ma...
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Magnetism can be Induced
What do magnets affect,
What do like poles do,
What do opposite poles do
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A Current-Carrying Wire Creates a Magnetic Field
What does an electrical current i...,
The larger the electric current,
What does the direction of the ma...
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The Magnetic Field Around a Straight Wire
Where is there a magnetic field a...,
What is the field made up of
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The Magnetic Field Around a Flat Circular Coil
What is the magnetic field in the...,
What are around the coil
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The Magnetic Field Around a Solenoid
What is the magnetic field inside...,
What is the field like outside th...,
What does this mean in terms of t...
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Magnetic Materials can be ‘Soft’ or ‘Hard’
What does it mean if a magnetic m...,
What does it mean if a magnetic m...,
What is an example of a soft magn...
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A Current in a Magnetic Field Experiences a Force
What happens when a current carry...,
What is a result of this,
What is this called
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Fleming’s Left-Hand Rule Tells You Which Way the Force Acts
What do you do with your left hand,
What will your thumb then do,
Look at diagram page 61
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4 Factors which Speed up a Simple D.C Electric Motor
4 factors which speed it up,
Look at the diagram page 62 to an...,
1 what does the diagram show
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Loudspeakers Work Because of the Motor Effect
What are ac electrical signals fr...,
What is the coil surrounded by an...,
Why is the coil surrounded by this
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Electromagnetic Induction
What is electromagnetic induction
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The Dynamo Effect - Move the Wire or the Magnet
What is the dynamo effect,
What is the first situation in wh...,
What is the second situation in w...
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A.C Generators - Just Turn the Coil and There’s a Current
1 what do generators do first,
2 what is their construction like,
3 what happens as the coil spins
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Transformers Change the Voltage - but Only Alternating Voltages
What do transformers change the s...,
How many coils do they all have,
What happens when an alternating ...
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The Transformer Equation - Use it Either Way Up
What is the formula to use to cal...,
When is there less rearranging of...,
What is the number of turns on th...
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Transformers are Nearly 100% Efficient So ‘Power in = Power Out’
What is the formula for power sup...,
What can you rewrite input power ...
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Transformers Make Transmitting Mains Electricity More Efficient
When are step up and step down tr...,
The voltage produced by power sta...,
The lower the voltage
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At the Centre of Every Atom is a Nucleus
What does the nucleus of an atom ...,
It makes up most of the of the at...,
What is the number of protons in ...
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Isotopes are Atoms with Different Numbers of Neutrons
Many elements have a few different,
What are isotopes,
What are the two common isotopes ...
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Radioactive Decay is a Random Process
When do the nuclei of unstable is...,
What can you do to make a decay h...,
When does each nucleus decay
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Background Radiation is Everywhere All the Time
What is around us all the time,
Where does background nuclear rad...
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Nuclear Radiation Causes Ionisation
How does nuclear radiation cause ...,
What are atoms turned into,
The further the radiation can pen...
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Alpha Particles are Helium Nuclei
What are alpha particles made up of,
How far do they penetrate materials,
How quickly are they stopped
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Beta Particles are Electrons
What is a beta particle,
What happens when a beta particle...,
Which number increases by 1 and w...
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Gamma Rays are Very a Short Wavelength EM Waves
What are gamma rays technically t...,
What do gamma rays not have and w...,
How far can they penetrate before...
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You Can Identify the Type by its Penetrating Power
What are alpha particles blocked by,
What are beta particles blocked by,
What are gamma rays blocked by
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You can Investigate the Penetration of a Radiation
What can you detect ionising radi...,
What does a geiger muller detecto...,
What do you remove the source to do
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Balancing Nuclear Equations
What do the overall charge and ma...,
What is the charge on a nucleus o...,
What is its mass equal to
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The Radioactivity of a Sample Always a Decreases Over Time
What happens each time a decay ha...,
What happens as the unstable nucl...,
The older a sample becomes
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Measuring the Half-Life of a Sample Using a Graph
How can this only be done,
What can then be done with the re...,
How is the half life found from t...
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Medical Tracers Use Beta or Gamma Radiation
What will beta and gamma penetrate,
What does this make beta and gamm...,
What is done with a source which ...
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Radiation is Also Used to Treat Cancer
What can ionising radiation kill ...,
Once the cancers started what can...,
What does radiotherapy do
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Food and Equipment can be Sterilised Using Gamma Rays
What can food be irradiated with ...,
How can medical equipment be ster...,
Why is irradiation a particularly...
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Radiation is Used in Industry for Tracers and Thickness Gauges
T what are gamma emitting tracers...,
T what is the source allowed to do,
T why is gamma used
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Ionising Radiation Can Damage Cells and Tissues
What can beta and gamma radiation...,
What does this make beta and gamm...,
What happens if beta or gamma rad...
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Exposure to Radiation is called Irradiation
Objects near a radioactive source...,
Irradiating something does not ma...,
What are ways of reducing the ris...
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Contamination is Radioactive Particles Getting onto Objects
What is said if unwanted radioact...,
How could this cause you harm,
When is contamination especially ...
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Radioactive Waste is Difficult to Dispose of Safely
How is low level radioactive wast...,
How long can high level waste sta...,
What is it often sealed in
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Nuclear Power Stations use Nuclear Fission Chain Reactions
What is nuclear fission
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Nuclear Reactors Have to Work-Safely
Look at diagram page 72,
What do the neutrons released by ...,
What needs to happen to the neutr...
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Nuclear Fusion - Joining Small Nuclei
What is nuclear fusion the opposi...,
What happens in nuclear fusion,
What is some of the mass of the l...
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We are Part of the Milky Way Galaxy
What is the universe,
What is a galaxy,
What is our sun a part of
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Our Solar System has One Star - The Sun
What is our solar system,
Planets,
Dwarf planets
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Gravity Provides the Force That Creates Orbits
What do the planets move around t...,
What is happening if an object is...,
What is the force causing this
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The Force due to Gravity Depends on Mass and Distance
What does the weight of any objec...,
What do gravitational field stren...,
The larger the mass of the body
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There are Different Types of Orbit
The orbits of moons and planets a...,
Comets orbit the sun but have very,
Why do comets have orbital period...
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You can Calculate Orbital Speeds
What formula do you use to calcul...,
What is the distance travelled fo...,
What is the formula for the speed...
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Stars can be Classified by their Colours
What does the colour of a star de...,
Do all stars emit visible light,
How much visible light it emits o...
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You can Compare Brightness using Absolute Magnitude
What does a stars brightness depe...,
In general the bigger and hotter ...,
The closer the star
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You can See Different Types of Star on the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagara,
What is the hertzsprung russell d...,
There are clear groups on the gra...,
Why are red giants and red superg...
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Waves are Affected by the Motion of the Source
What happens when a source of wav...,
What does this happen will all ty...,
What happens when a light source ...
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Light from Galaxies is Red-shifted
Most galaxies seem to be each other,
What do different elements absorb,
What happens when light is passed...
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Calculating Red-shift
What is the amount that light fro...
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Red-shift Suggests the Universe is Expanding
What do measurements of the red s...,
More distant galaxies have a red ...,
What does this mean
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There’s Microwave Radiation from All Directions
Where can scientists detect low f...,
What is this known as,
What happens as the universe expa...
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This Evidenced Suggests the Universe Started with a Bang
1 initially,
2 tiny space,
3 single point
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Microwaves
Why do they increase vibrations,
What is the result of this,
What do microwaves do internally ...
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Infrared
What do the infrared range of fre...,
Infrared has a higher frequency so,
What happens if the body is expos...
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Ultraviolet
What can uv radiation do,
What are some frequencies of uv r...,
What can this cause
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Gamma
What are high frequency waves,
What does this mean,
What can they cause
5
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The Transformer Equation - Use it Either Way Up
How can you calculate the output ...,
Input primary voltage output seco...,
What is useful about this equation
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Stars 1.
What do starts initially form from
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Stars 2.
What does the force of gravity do,
When does the temp rise,
What happens when the temp gets h...
5
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Stars 3.
What does the star enter,
What happens during this period,
In this stable period what s it c...
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Stars 5.
What does a small to medium sized...,
What does this leave behind
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Stars 6.
What do big stars start to do,
When do they expand and contract ...,
What eventually happens
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Stars 7.
What does the exploding supernova do,
What happens if the star is massi...,
What is a black hole
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Stars 8.
What does the nebula go to,
What does the protostar go to,
What does the main sequence star ...
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Stars 4.
What does the hydrogen in the cor...,
What is the force due to gravity ...,
When is the star compressed until
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Burgess mini test
What is the symbol for an alpha r...,
What is the relationship between ...,
Energy transferred
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