Force and Extension AQA GCSE Physics Required Practical 6

Force and extension worksheets for AQA GCSE Physics, covering Hooke’s law and Required Practical 6, with answers and editable Word files.

Designed for KS4 students aged 14–16, this resource supports AQA GCSE Physics (8463), section 4.5.3: Forces and elasticity.

What’s included?

• 34-page student workbook with 101 numbered questions and tasks.
• 22-page teacher guide with answers, worked solutions, marking guidance and curriculum mapping.
• 13 worked examples covering calculations, unit conversions and graph gradients.
• Original 30-mark assessment with a matching mark scheme.
• Student and teacher materials in PDF and editable Word formats: four files containing 56 distinct pages.

What will students learn and practise?

• Distinguishing original length, loaded length and extension.
• Stretching, compression, bending, and elastic and inelastic deformation.
• Applying Hooke’s law, rearranging equations and calculating spring constants.
• Plotting force–extension graphs, drawing best-fit lines and calculating gradients.
• Understanding the limit of proportionality and checking elastic recovery.
• Calculating elastic potential energy, including unit conversions and squared quantities.
• Identifying anomalies, calculating means and evaluating experimental evidence.

Required Practical 6 support

• Labelled apparatus diagram showing original length, loaded length and extension.
• Planning questions covering variables, equipment and suitable loading ranges.
• Numbered method, measurement guidance and safety prompts.
• Recording tables for students’ own practical measurements.
• Clearly labelled simulated datasets for additional graph and data-processing practice.

Suitable for classroom teaching, practical preparation, homework, independent practice and GCSE Physics revision. The separate teacher guide keeps answers apart from student activities.

Editing information: Word text, tables and equations are editable. Scientific diagrams are embedded images. Equipment for the live practical is required separately.