Specific Heat Capacity | AQA GCSE Physics Required Practical
Teach and revise specific heat capacity for AQA GCSE Physics with structured worksheets, Required Practical 1 activities and detailed teacher answers.
This 41-page resource combines a separate student workbook and teacher guide, supplied as printable PDFs and editable Word documents. Designed for KS4 students aged 14–16, it develops understanding, calculation skills and practical analysis through worked examples and independent tasks.
What is included?
27-page student workbook.
14-page teacher guide with answers, teaching notes and assessment guidance.
91 numbered questions and tasks.
11 worked examples.
Original 30-mark assessment with marking guidance.
Four resource files: two PDFs and two editable DOCX documents.
What does the resource cover?
The meaning of specific heat capacity and the difference between temperature and energy.
Thermometer readings, temperature changes and unit conversions.
Applying and rearranging ΔE = mcΔθ.
Energy gained during heating and energy released during cooling.
Electrical energy calculations using E = Pt and E = VIt.
Required Practical 1 apparatus, circuit connections, variables, method and safety considerations.
Recording students’ own measurements and calculating an experimental estimate.
Graph construction, best-fit lines, gradients and interpreting different axis arrangements.
Simulated heating data, initial temperature lag and justified selection of a straight region.
Repeated measurements, means, range and half-range.
Repeatability, measurement uncertainty, energy losses and practical improvements.
How can it be used?
Classroom teaching and guided practice.
Preparation for the specific heat capacity required practical.
Processing and evaluating students’ own experimental results.
GCSE revision, homework and tutoring.
Blank laboratory records are included alongside clearly labelled simulated datasets for additional practice. Student activities and teacher answers are kept in separate files.
The Word versions contain editable text, tables and equations. Scientific diagrams and graphs are embedded images.
Designed to support AQA GCSE Physics 8463, section 4.1.1.3 and Required Practical 1.












