Zusammenfassung der Ressource
AQA Physics [P1] Part 2
- Generating electricity
- Renewable
- Biofuels
- Hydroelectric
- Causes
flooding
- Solar power
- Produces
a small
amount of
electricity
- Tidal power
- Affects
local
ecology
- Wind turbine
- Requires
land
- Geothermal
- Expensive
- Non-renewable
- Fossil fuels
- Coal
- Oil
- Gas
- Release
carbon
dioxide
and
sulphur
dioxide
- Nuclear
- Uranium
- Plutonium
- Nuclear
waste -
difficult to
dispose
- National grid
- Transformers
- Step up
- Step down
- High-voltage
current
- less
energy lost
in cables
- Waves
- Properties
- Wavelength
- Amplitude
- Frequency
- Speed =
frequency x
wavelength
- Longitudinal
- Vibrate
parallel to
the direction
of transfer
- Vibrations
in a medium
- Sound
- Compression
- Rarefaction
- Transverse
- Mechanical
- Require
medium
to travel
through
- Vibrate at right
angles to the
direction of
transfer
- Doppler Effect
- Red-shift of
galaxies and
stars
- Big Bang
theory
- Universe is
expanding
- Cosmic microwave
background
information
- Further away...
bigger red shift
- Reflection
- Refraction
- Diffraction
- Electromagnetic waves
- Communication
- Visible
light
- Photography
- Infrared
- Remote
controls
- Microwaves
- Satellite TV
- Mobile
phone
- Radio waves
- Radio
- TV
- Bluetooth
- R-M-I-V-U-X-G