Year 10 / GCSE · Science
Physics: Forces
Year 10 / GCSE learners practise forces and motion gcse physics.
The activities include Understand Power, Calculate Mass, Weight and Gravity, Explore and Calculate Momentum, and related practice. The checked support below includes video, teaching, worksheet, teach. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.
Activities covered
- Understand Power
- Calculate Mass, Weight and Gravity
- Explore and Calculate Momentum
- Investigate Forces and their Applications
- Understand Forces and Elasticity
- Understand Newton's First Law
- Understand Newton's Second law
Checked learning resources
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Power: work done or energy transferred per second
Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website
Year 10 GCSE Physics lesson defining power as the rate of work done or energy transferred and applying P = W ÷ t in calculations such as 15 J transferred over 20 s.
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Mass, weight and gravitational field strength
Cognito · Video · Opens on the provider website
GCSE Physics interactive video lesson comparing mass and weight, defining gravitational field strength and applying W = mg in calculations on Earth and the Moon. It directly covers mass weight and gravitational field str
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Momentum and momentum calculations
Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website
GCSE Physics lesson defining momentum as mass multiplied by velocity, p = mv, treating momentum as a vector and applying the equation in calculations before extending to how force changes momentum.
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Contact and non-contact forces
Cognito · Video · Opens on the provider website
GCSE Physics interactive video lesson investigating different types of forces and their applications, distinguishing contact forces such as friction, tension and normal reaction from non-contact gravitational, magnetic a
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Hooke's law: spring force, extension and graphs
Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website
Year 10 GCSE Physics lesson applying Hooke's law F = ke, calculating force, spring constant and extension, and analysing force-extension graphs including proportionality and the limit of proportionality.
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Newton's First Law through resultant forces
Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website
GCSE Physics lesson applying Newton's First Law to balanced and unbalanced forces: zero resultant force means rest or constant velocity, while a non-zero resultant force changes motion.
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Newton's Second Law and F = ma
Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website
GCSE Physics lesson explaining Newton's Second Law and applying resultant force = mass × acceleration, F = ma, in calculations including rearranging for mass or acceleration.
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Power: work done or energy transferred per second lesson slides
Oak National Academy · Teaching · Opens on the provider website
Year 10 GCSE Physics lesson defining power as the rate of work done or energy transferred and applying P = W ÷ t in calculations such as 15 J transferred over 20 s. The lesson slides open through Oak's browser download-s