This text has been written to match the content demands of the 1996 GCSE science separate subject syllabus documents. This work stresses the way physicists and engineers attempt to understand and control the physical world. The book covers managing energy, solids and fuels, controlling movement, controlling electricity, using waves to communicate, harnessing the atom and the Earth in space. The book contains: learning objectives for each chapter, to help aid private study; key point summaries, to emphasize ideas and aid revision; and examination-style questions to help students prepare for the GCSE examination.

 

This book is part of a book series called Collins Gcse Sciences .

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 240 pages in this book. This book was published 1996 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Jenny Jones and Shirley Parsons both teach science at 11-16. They were both involved in developing the resources for the hugely successful Science Plus certificate of achievement project (Jenny Jones was the series editor and Shirley Parsons one of the authors). Shirley Parsons is also a co-autthor of Collins GCSE Physics and was the athor of the revision material in Science Connections Book 3.

This book has the following chapters: Part 1 Managing energy: energy transfer; kinetic theory; thermal energy; energy and the atmosphere; work and power; energy resources. Part 2 Solids and fuels: the nature of fluids and solids; floating and sinking; pressure and hydraulics; surface and tension effects; fluid flow. Part 3 Controlling movement: forces in balance; forces and motion; momentum. Part 4 Controlling electricity: electrostatics; measuring electricity; domestic electricity; electromagnetism; electron beams; electronics. Part 5 Using waves to communicate: oscillations and vibrations; the nature of sound; the nature of light; the electromagnetic spectrum; communication systems. Part 6 Harnessing the atom: inside the atom; use and effects of radioactivity. Part 7 Earth in space: structure of the Earth; the Earth in space; movement in space; cosmology.