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AQA GCSE Energy
Energy questions become easier when you name the system, track the stores that change and identify the transfer pathway. Then choose an equation only when the physical change requires it.
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Energy is stored in thermal, kinetic, gravitational potential, elastic potential, chemical, magnetic, electrostatic and nuclear stores. It is transferred mechanically, electrically, by heating or by radiation. The total energy of a closed system is conserved.
Light, sound and electricity describe ways energy is transferred, not stores. In a written answer, name the store that decreases, the store that increases and the pathway between them.
A strong explanation links the physical change to an energy model. “The energy is lost” is incomplete: say which store increases and where the energy is dissipated.
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Track energy by defining a system, naming the stores that change and identifying the transfer pathway.
Choose an equation from the physical change, convert every quantity to SI units and show the substitution.
Efficiency compares the useful output with the total input; it does not measure how quickly a device works.
Measure how electrical energy supplied to a block changes its temperature, then determine specific heat capacity.
This required practical belongs to AQA GCSE Physics 8463 only; it is not a Combined Science: Trilogy required practical.
Evaluate an energy resource using reliability, response time, environmental effects, scale and cost—not a single memorised advantage.
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