Waves workbook: AQA GCSE Physics

A printable workbook for the AQA Waves topic, one section for each lesson, ready for class, homework or revision.

Matches AQA GCSE Physics (8463) and Combined Science: Trilogy (8464). Printable A4 PDFs.

Each lesson has:

• a real-life example to start
• the key words, or each quantity with its symbol and unit, and what they mean
• worked examples, then practice questions
• exam-style questions in most lessons
• answers to every question, marked point by point, starting on a new page so you can print without them

Four versions in one download, so you can pick the one your class sits:

• Combined Science: Trilogy, Foundation: 10 lessons, 59 pages
• Combined Science: Trilogy, Higher: 10 lessons, 65 pages
• Physics, Foundation: 15 lessons, 102 pages
• Physics, Higher: 16 lessons, 125 pages

Lessons (Physics, Higher; the other versions leave out what their course or tier does not cover):
Transverse and longitudinal waves; Describing a wave; The wave equation; Measuring wave speed; Waves at a boundary; Refraction; The electromagnetic spectrum; Uses of electromagnetic waves; Dangers of electromagnetic radiation; Where electromagnetic waves come from; Infrared and surfaces; Black bodies and the Earth; Reflection, colour and filters; Lenses; Sound and hearing; Using waves to see inside things.

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