OCR Gateway Physics P2

What are the advantages of photocells?

How does a photocell work?

What destine output of a photocell depend on?

How can the current from a dynamo be increased?

What does a simple generator consist of?

How can a current also be produced when the coil does not move?

How do conventional power stations produce power?

How does carbon dioxide naturally occur in the atmosphere?

How is man-made carbon dioxide cause?

What is the most significant greenhouse gas?And why?

How is methane produced?

What is the greenhouse effect?

What affects does dust have in the atmosphere?

Why is electricity cheaper at night?

What is the national grid?

Transformers in the national grid are used to step up the voltage to 400,000V, why is high voltage wanted?

Atoms are neutral what does this mean?

What does ionisation involve?

What sort of chemical reactions can ion cause?

where does alpha, beta and gamma radiations come from in an atom?

Which radiation causes the most ionisation and the least?

How do smoke alarms work with a source of alpha radiation?

What is gamma radiation used for?

What is plutonium?

how is radioactive waste dealt with?

why is the storage of radioactive waste important?

What are advantages to nuclear power?

What sort of orbits do comets have?

What is a meteor made up of?

Where are black holes formed?

Why do moons orbit planets, and planets orbit stars?

Where do unmanned probes go?

How are spacesuits designed to be able to go into space?

At what speed does light travel?

What are asteroids?