This brand new course builds in crucial challenge material right from the start, enabling students to confidently leap into Cambridge IGCSERG Science study with a solid foundation in Physics. It is the best preparation for our bestselling Complete Science for Cambridge IGCSE course, facilitating seamless progression from Cambridge Secondary 1 Stage 9 right into Complete Physics for Cambridge IGCSE. Complete Physics for Cambridge Secondary 1 covers all three years of Cambridge Secondary 1 Physics in the same book, flowing smoothly from one stage to the next. Regular revision and extension exercises will help consolidate learning and then stretch and challenge students to reach the next level. It is endorsed by Cambridge International Examinations, so you know everything is covered.
Stage 7 1 Forces
1.1. Introduction to forces
1.2. Balanced forces
1.3. Friction
1.4. Gravity
1.5. Enquiry: Questions, evidence and explanation
1.6. Air resistance
1.7. Enquiry: Planning investigations
1.8. Tension and upthrust
1.9. Enquiry: Presenting results - tables and graphs
1.10. Extension: Round in circles
1.11. Review
2 Energy
2.1. What is energy?
2.2. Energy from the Sun
2.3. Energy types
2.4. Energy transfer
2.5. Conservation of energy
2.6. Gravitational potential energy and kinetic energy
2.7. Elastic potential energy
2.8. Enquiry: Suggesting ideas
2.9. Extension: Energy calculations and Sankey diagrams
2.10. Review: Checkpoint-style questions
3 The Earth and beyond
3.1. How do we see the Sun, stars and planets?
3.2. Day and night
3.3. What causes seasons?
3.4. Why do the stars seem to move?
3.5. Our solar system
3.6. Extension: The Moon
3.7. Enquiry: Questions, evidence and explanations
3.8. Extension: Beyond our Solar System
3.9. Enquiry: Using secondary sources
3.10. Extension: The Origin of the Universe
3.11. Review: Checkpoint-style questions
Stage 7 Review
4 Forces and motion
4.1. Speed
4.2. Enquiry: Taking accurate measurements
4.3. Distance-time graphs (including interpreting data from secondary sources)
4.4. Extension: Acceleration and speed-time graphs
4.5. Enquiry: Presenting results in tables and graphs
4.6. Enquiry: Asking scientific questions
4.7. Review: Checkpoint-style questions
5 Sound
5.1. Sound, vibrations and energy transfer
5.2. Extension: Detecting sounds
5.3. Loudness and the decibel scale
5.4. Loudness, amplitude and oscilloscopes
5.5. Pitch and frequency
5.6. Enquiry: Making simple calculations
5.7. Extension: Echoes
5.8. Review: Checkpoint-style questions
6 Light
6.1. What is light?
6.2. How do we see things?
6.3. Extension: The speed of light
6.4. Reflection at plane surfaces
6.5. The law of reflection
6.6. Refraction at boundary between air and water
6.7. Refraction at boundary between air and glass
6.8. Dispersion of white light
6.9. Colour
6.10. More on colour
6.11. Enquiry: Asking scientific questions
6.12. Extension: Lasers
6.13. Review: Checkpoint-style questions
7 Magnetism
7.1. The properties of magnets
7.2. The magnetic field of a bar magnet
7.3. Electromagnets
7.4. Enquiry: Identifying and controlling variables
7.5. Extension: Using electromagnets
7.6. Review: Checkpoint-style questions
Stage 8 Review
Stage 9
8 Forces and motion
8.1. Pressure, and how it is caused
8.2. Pressure and its applications
8.3. Pressure in liquids
8.4. Using pressure in liquids
8.5. Pressure in gases
8.6. Extension: Pressure and temperature in gases
8.7. Enquiry: Preliminary work
8.8. Density and how to measure it
8.9. Explaining density
8.10. Enquiry: Questions, evidence and explanations
8.11. Turning forces
8.12. Enquiry: Planning investigations
8.13. Calculating moments
8.14. Extension: Centripetal forces
8.15. Review: Checkpoint-style questions
9 Electricity
9.1. Electrostatic phenomena
9.2. Explaining electrostatics
9.3. Digital sensors
9.4. Electric circuits - what can you remember?
9.5. Current - what is it and how can we measure it?
9.6. Parallel circuits
9.7. Explaining parallel circuits
9.8. How components affect current
9.9. Voltage
9.10. Enquiry: Choosing ideas and making plans
9.11. Extension: Electrical energy and power
9.12. Review: Checkpoint-style questions
10 Energy
10.1. Hot and cold
10.2. Energy transfer - conduction
10.3. Energy transfer - convection
10.4. Energy transfer - radiation
10.5. Cooling by evaporation
10.6. The world's energy needs
10.7. Fossil fuels
10.8. Generating electricity - introduction
10.9. Renewable energy sources - solar and geothermal
10.10. Renewable energy sources - wind, wave, tidal, hydroelectricity
10.11. Energy for the future
10.12. Review: Checkpoint-style questions
Stage 9 Review
Reference pages
Glossary
Answers
Index