Physics

Electricity

  • how changing the number or type of components (e.g. batteries, bulbs/buzzers, wires) in a series circuit can make bulbs brighter or dimmer

  • compare and give reasons for the variations in how components work

  • how to represent series circuits by drawings and conventional symbols, and how to construct series circuits on the basis of drawings and diagrams using conventional symbols

Magnetism

  • about magnetic fields as regions of space where magnetic materials experience forces, and that like magnetic poles repel and unlike magnetic poles attract; magnetic fields by plotting with a compass; representation by field lines

  • Earth’s magnetism, compass and navigation

The behaviour of light

  • how light is reflected at plane surfaces

  • that light travels in a straight line at a finite speed in a uniform medium

  • light travelling in straight lines explains why shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them

  • that non-luminous objects are seen because light scattered from them enters the eye