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OCR A AS Physics Charge and Current Worksheet

Download a free OCR A AS Physics worksheet on charge, current, charge carriers, Kirchhoff's first law and introductory drift velocity, with solutions.

Module / section
Electrons, waves and photons
Topic
Charge and current
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The worksheet contains 7 pages of printable questions. A separate 7-page solutions PDF makes it easy to mark, review or share answers after the activity.

  • Electric current, the coulomb, elementary charge and charge quantisation
  • Charge carriers and conventional-current direction
  • Kirchhoff's first law at circuit junctions
  • Deriving and applying I = Anev
  • Carrier number density in conductors, semiconductors and insulators

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H156 · 4.1.1(a), 4.1.1(b), 4.1.1(c), 4.1.1(d), 4.1.1(e), 4.1.1(f), 4.1.1(g), 4.1.2(a), 4.1.2(b), 4.1.2(c)

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