CiE iGCSE Physics 0625 Learning Plan
Section 2: Speed, velocity and acceleration
Specification Resources Assessment
Core Video: Section 1 – General Physics Textbook
• Define speed and calculate average speed from total time /
total distance – Lesson 2- Speed, velocity and Questions Pages 50-51; 1, 2,
• Plot and interpret a speed-time graph or a distance- time
graph acceleration 3, 4, 7, 8
• Recognise from the shape of a speed-time graph when a
body is
Powerpoint: Physics 2 – Speed
– at rest
– moving with constant speed
velocity and acceleration
Textbook Answers: Page 327
– moving with changing speed
• Calculate the area under a speed-time graph to work out the
distance travelled for motion with constant acceleration
Textbook Talking Paper 2 – Speed,
• Demonstrate understanding that acceleration and
deceleration are related to changing speed including qualitative
Page 26 – Speed, velocity and velocity and acceleration.
analysis of the gradient of a speed-time graph
• State that the acceleration of free fall for a body near
acceleration
to the Earth is constant
Exam Q2 (PDF) – Speed,
Supplement Page 28 – Motion graphs
• Distinguish between speed and velocity velocity and acceleration
Page 30 – Recording motion
• Define and calculate acceleration using
time taken change of velocity Page 32 – Free fall Exam Q2 (PDF) – Mark
• Calculate speed from the gradient of a distance-time graph
• Calculate acceleration from the gradient of a speed-time Page 34 – More motion graphs Scheme
graph
• Recognise linear motion for which the acceleration is constant
• Recognise motion for which the acceleration is not constant
• Understand deceleration as a negative acceleration
• Describe qualitatively the motion of bodies falling in a uniform
gravitational field with and without air resistance (including
reference to terminal velocity)
Videos – www.igcsesciencecourses.com
Textbook Ref: Complete Physics for Cambridge iGCSE (Stephen Pople) - OUP
DVD Assessments – see resource DVD in textbook.