Slide Preview for EdExcel Unit P2 - Physics for your Future

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This slideshow covers the EdExcel P2 unit, including: the structure of the atom, static electricity, how static is used in lightning and paint sprayers, earthing, dangers of static electricity, electric current, charge, circuit symbols, current and voltage in series and parallel circuits, resistance, I-V graphs for bulbs and diodes, resistance of LDRs and thermistors, explaining resistance using lattice vibrations, the heating effect, power, vector and scalar quantities, distance and displacement, speed and velocity, distance-time graphs, acceleration, velocity-time graphs, forces, free body force diagrams, balanced and unbalanced forces, air resistance, resultant force, F=ma, weight and mass, terminal velocity, stopping distances and factors affecting them, momentum, conservation of momentum in collisions and explosions, car safety features, gravitational potential energy, kinetic energy, conservation of energy, radioactivity, ionisation, alpha. beta and gamma radiation, blocking radiation, nuclear power stations, nuclear fission, chain reactions, nuclear fusion in stars, cold fusion, background radiation, uses of radioactivity in medicine and smoke detectors, radioactive decay, half life, dating materials using half life, disposing of radioactive waste, pros and cons of nuclear power.