GCSE Physics Waves: AQA-style workbook, practice papers and lessons

A complete, illustrated pack for the GCSE Physics waves topic: a 109-page workbook with full worked answers, 11 editable PowerPoint lessons, two practice papers and every required practical in the topic. It covers recall, calculations with rearranging, unit conversions and standard form, wave graphs and traces, ray diagrams, practical questions and six-mark responses.

WHAT’S INSIDE (updated October 2026)

• Workbook 109 pages, answer edition 102 pages (editable Word)
• Practice papers 10 pages, mark schemes 10 pages (editable Word)
• Knowledge organiser and flashcards 13 pages
• 11 lesson decks (editable PowerPoint), 294 slides in total. Every lesson ends with exam questions and worked answers that build on click
• Teacher guide (Word)
• Total: 254 PDF pages and 294 slides

WHAT YOU GET

• 247 questions graded Foundation, Developing and Exam standard (128, 74, 45), with mark tags, allowed alternatives and error carried forward. Higher and Physics-only items (sound and ultrasound, seismic waves, lenses, light and colour, black body radiation) are labelled
• 38 step-by-step worked examples. Each of the 37 calculation examples ends with a check by a second method: v = fλ, period, oscilloscope traces, echoes and ultrasound scans, radiation dose, seismic waves and magnification
• 34 diagrams and graphs drawn for this pack, including practical set-ups, refraction with rays and wavefronts, the electromagnetic spectrum, black body curves, the Earth with P and S wave paths and shadow zones, and lens ray diagrams on a grid
• Required practicals: waves in a ripple tank and on a string; infrared radiation from surfaces; the light practical (Physics only)
• Six six-mark questions with three-level mark schemes, a model answer built step by step, and six longer multi-step questions
• Mistake clinic with twelve common misconceptions (including “the wave carries the water forward”) and ten spot-the-error tasks, three retrieval quizzes, a 21-point checklist and a glossary of 28 key terms
• Two 40-mark practice papers with mark schemes (PDF and editable Word; Paper 2 is mostly Physics-only content), a knowledge organiser with 40 flashcards and a teacher guide

WHO IT IS FOR
Physics and Combined Science teachers planning the waves unit, students revising independently and tutors.

ABOUT THE SPECIFICATION
Written with the AQA GCSE waves content in mind. Questions use an AQA-style format, but mark guidance is Study Hack’s own wording, not an exam board mark scheme. The pack does not state which equations are on an equation sheet: please check your own specification. All data sets are invented for practice; radiation doses are rounded, illustrative values, and the seismic ray paths come from a simplified Earth model.

All questions, diagrams and model answers are original Study Hack material. Independent resource, not endorsed by any exam board.