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AQA GCSE Physics Energy Transfers and Insulation Worksheet
Download a free AQA GCSE Physics worksheet on energy transfers, thermal insulation and the required practical, with data analysis and complete worked solutions.
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Questions and skills covered
The worksheet contains 3 pages of printable questions. A separate 2-page solutions PDF makes it easy to mark, review or share answers after the activity.
- Conservation, dissipation and unwanted energy transfers
- Thermal insulation and methods for reducing transfer rates
- Planning the thermal-insulation required practical with controlled variables
- Repeated cooling data, rate calculations and evidence-based design decisions
About this activity
Use the cooling of a food-delivery container to explain energy transfers, plan a fair insulation test and compare cooling data. The final decision weighs thermal performance against cost and mass. The thermal-insulation required practical is for separate GCSE Physics, rather than a required practical for Combined Science.
Before you start
Name thermal energy stores and transfer pathways, calculate a temperature drop per minute, and identify independent, dependent and control variables.
A question from the worksheet
Question 2, worksheet page 1
Hot soup is placed in an uninsulated delivery container and cools during a journey. Describe the energy changes for the soup, container and surroundings.
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The thermal energy store of the soup decreases. Energy is transferred by heating through the walls and lid, increasing the thermal stores of the container and surroundings. The energy becomes more spread out and less useful for keeping the soup hot; it is not destroyed.
Common error: Energy is transferred and dissipated, not used up or destroyed.
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