AQA GCSE PHYSICS PAPER 1 EXAM
STYLE QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS SUCCESS DRIVEN 2026
• What is a system in terms of energy? Answer: An object or group of
objects
• Name the seven energy stores Answer: Kinetic, (internal) Thermal,
Chemical, Gravitational Potential, Elastic Potential, Electrostatic and
Magnetic [MICKEE G - to remember them]
• What is a closed system? Answer: Systems were neither matter nor
energy can enter or leave. The net change in the total energy of a closed
system is always zero.
• What does 'doing work' result in? Answer: A transfer of energy
• What is the unit of energy? Answer: Joule
• List the four ways energy can be transferred between stores? Answer:
By mechanical work, by electrical work, by heating, by radiation
• What is the conservation of energy principle? Answer: Energy can be
transferred usefully, stored or dissipated, but can never be created or
destroyed
,• What is energy dissipation? Answer: When energy is not transferred
usefully but is wasted (often as thermal energy)
• What is the equation linking kinetic energy, mass and velocity Answer:
0.5 x mass x (velocity squared)
• What are the units for velocity? Answer: Meters per second (m/s)
• What are the units for mass? Answer: Kilograms (kg)
• What is the equation linking elastic potential energy, the spring
constant and extension? Answer: 0.5 x spring constant x (extension
squared)
• What are the units for the spring constant? Answer: Newtons per metre
(N/m)
• What are the units for extension? Answer: Metres (m)
• What is the equation linking gravitational potential energy, mass,
gravity and height? Answer: Mass x gravitational field strength x height
[Ep=mgh]
, • What are the units for gravitational field strength? Answer: Newtons
per kg (N/kg)
• What are the units for height? Answer: Meters (m)
• What is conduction? Answer: The process by which vibrating particles
transfer energy to neighbouring particles
• What is thermal conductivity? Answer: Are measure of how quickly
energy is transferred through a material by conduction
• What is convection? Answer: Were energetic particles move away
from a hotter to cooler regions
• What does the symbol ∆ mean? Answer: Change
• What is specific heat capacity of a substance? Answer: The amount of
energy required to raise the temperature of 1 kg of the substance by 1°
Celsius
• What are the units for specific heat capacity? Answer: Joules per
kilogram per ° C (Jk/kg/°C)
• What is power? Answer: The rate at which energy is transferred or the
rate at which work is done if
STYLE QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS SUCCESS DRIVEN 2026
• What is a system in terms of energy? Answer: An object or group of
objects
• Name the seven energy stores Answer: Kinetic, (internal) Thermal,
Chemical, Gravitational Potential, Elastic Potential, Electrostatic and
Magnetic [MICKEE G - to remember them]
• What is a closed system? Answer: Systems were neither matter nor
energy can enter or leave. The net change in the total energy of a closed
system is always zero.
• What does 'doing work' result in? Answer: A transfer of energy
• What is the unit of energy? Answer: Joule
• List the four ways energy can be transferred between stores? Answer:
By mechanical work, by electrical work, by heating, by radiation
• What is the conservation of energy principle? Answer: Energy can be
transferred usefully, stored or dissipated, but can never be created or
destroyed
,• What is energy dissipation? Answer: When energy is not transferred
usefully but is wasted (often as thermal energy)
• What is the equation linking kinetic energy, mass and velocity Answer:
0.5 x mass x (velocity squared)
• What are the units for velocity? Answer: Meters per second (m/s)
• What are the units for mass? Answer: Kilograms (kg)
• What is the equation linking elastic potential energy, the spring
constant and extension? Answer: 0.5 x spring constant x (extension
squared)
• What are the units for the spring constant? Answer: Newtons per metre
(N/m)
• What are the units for extension? Answer: Metres (m)
• What is the equation linking gravitational potential energy, mass,
gravity and height? Answer: Mass x gravitational field strength x height
[Ep=mgh]
, • What are the units for gravitational field strength? Answer: Newtons
per kg (N/kg)
• What are the units for height? Answer: Meters (m)
• What is conduction? Answer: The process by which vibrating particles
transfer energy to neighbouring particles
• What is thermal conductivity? Answer: Are measure of how quickly
energy is transferred through a material by conduction
• What is convection? Answer: Were energetic particles move away
from a hotter to cooler regions
• What does the symbol ∆ mean? Answer: Change
• What is specific heat capacity of a substance? Answer: The amount of
energy required to raise the temperature of 1 kg of the substance by 1°
Celsius
• What are the units for specific heat capacity? Answer: Joules per
kilogram per ° C (Jk/kg/°C)
• What is power? Answer: The rate at which energy is transferred or the
rate at which work is done if
