P5
Electricity and Magnetism
Charge, circuits, resistance, magnetic fields and controlled electromagnets.
How can invisible electric and magnetic fields transfer energy and produce useful forces?
Circuit models, resistance and magnetic fields explain technologies from sensors and household wiring to motors and medical scanners.
Where this matterselectrical safety and power networksmotors, relays and loudspeakersmedical and transport technologies
Spiral links
This topic builds on and feeds forward to:
- Y7 P1: forces at a distance and evidence from models
- Y8 P4: energy stores, transfers and power
- Y9 IGCSE Bridge Physics: force models and quantitative motion
Lessons in this topic
P5.1P5.2P5.3P5.4P5.5P5.6P5.7P5.8
Charging up
Practical connection: Static-electricity investigation
Circuits and current
Practical connection: Circuit-building
Potential difference
Practical connection: Circuit-measurement
Series and parallel circuits
Practical connection: Series-and-parallel circuit
Resistance
Practical connection: Resistance investigation
Magnets and magnetic fields
Practical connection: Magnetic-field mapping
Electromagnets
Practical connection: Electromagnet investigation
Using electromagnets
Core explanation, retrieval and Exam Practice.