REVISION CHEcKLIST

Forces and motion

Use the list below when you revise for your IGCSE examination. The spread number, in brackets, tells you where to nd more information from the student book.

Core Level
Measuring speed. (2.01) Linking acceleration with changing speed. (2.01) Representing motion using distancetime and speedtime graphs. (2.02) Recognizing from the shape of a distancetime graph when an object is stationary (at rest) moving at a steady speed  moving with changing speed. (2.02) Calculating speed from a distancetime graph. (2.02) Calculating the distance travelled from a speed time graph. (2.02) How the acceleration of free fall, g, is constant. (2.04) Measuring force. (2.06) The newton, unit of force. (2.06) Weight is a force. (2.06) The meaning of resultant force. (2.07) How a force can change the motion of an object. (2.07) How forces can change shape and volume, as well as motion. (2.07)

Topic Topic understood revised

Extended Level
As for Core Level, plus the following: The difference between speed and velocity. (2.01) Calculating acceleration. (2.01)

Topic Topic understood revised

Recognizing the difference between uniform (constant) and nonuniform (non-constant) acceleration from the shape of a speedtime graph. (2.05) How an object moves if there is no resultant force on it. (2.06) The link between force, mass, and acceleration. (2.07) Dening the newton. (2.07) How an object falls in a uniform (constant) gravitational eld  without air resistance. (2.04)  with air resistance. (2.05 and 2.06) Terminal velocity. (2.06) The difference between weight and mass. (2.09) Calculating weight, using mass and gravitational eld strength, g. (2.09) The difference between vectors and scalars. (2.11)

OUP: this may be reproduced for class use solely for the purchasers institute

REVISION CHEcKLIST

Forces and motion (Continued)

Extended Level
Adding vectors using the parallelogram rule. (2.11) Motion in a circle, and centripetal force. (2.12) Topic Topic understood revised

OUP: this may be reproduced for class use solely for the purchasers institute