GCSE Physics Specification Specification for first teaching in 2016
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Engineers analyse forces when designing a great variety of machines and instruments, from road bridges and fairground rides to atomic force microscopes. Anything mechanical can be analysed in this way. Recent developments in artificial limbs use the analysis of forces to make movement possible.
Required practical activity 6: investigate the relationship between force and extension for a spring.
AT skills covered by this practical activity: AT 1 and 2.
This practical activity also provides opportunities to develop WS and MS. Details of all skills are given in Key opportunities for skills development .
Required practical activity 7 : investigate the effect of varying the force on the acceleration of an object of constant mass, and the effect of varying the mass of an object on the acceleration produced by a constant force.
AT skills covered by this practical activity: AT 1, 2 and 3.
This practical activity also provides opportunities to develop WS and MS. Details of all skills are given in Key opportunities for skills development .