IGCSE Physics Specification

Edexcel 4PH1

Section 4: (b) Energy transfers

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#4.2

describe energy transfers involving energy stores:

- energy stores: chemical, kinetic, gravitational, elastic, thermal, magnetic, electrostatic, nuclear
- energy transfers: mechanically, electrically, by heating, by radiation (light and sound)

#4.3

use the principle of conservation of energy

#4.4

know and use the relationship between efficiency, useful energy output and total energy output:

\(\text{efficiency} = \dfrac{\text{useful energy output}}{\text{total energy input}} × 100 \)

#4.5

describe a variety of everyday and scientific devices and situations, explaining the transfer of the input energy in terms of the above relationship, including their representation by Sankey diagrams

#4.6

describe how thermal energy transfer may take place by conduction, convection and radiation

#4.7

explain the role of convection in everyday phenomena

#4.8

explain how emission and absorption of radiation are related to surface and temperature

#4.9

practical: investigate thermal energy transfer by conduction, convection and radiation

#4.10

explain ways of reducing unwanted energy transfer, such as insulation