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    • Introduction to SKPT Energy
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    • Acknowledgements
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    • Energy Glossary
  • Expand1 - How high? How fast?
    • 1 – Introduction: how high? how fast?
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    • 1.1 – How high, how fast?
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    • 1.1a – Example how high, how fast questions
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    • 1.1b – Example how high, how fast answers
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    • 1.2 – Force, energy, and power
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    • 1.2a – Force, energy, and power examples
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    • 1.2b – Language of power
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    • 1.3 – Are some stores missing?
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    • 1.4 – Stores and pathways language
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    • 1.5 – Quiz
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  • Expand2 – Energy calculations
    • 2 – Introduction: energy calculations
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    • 2.1 – The units of energy and power
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    • 2.1a – The units of energy and power answers
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    • 2.2 – Where do the equations come from?
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    • 2.2a – Calculating work done
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    • 2.2b – Calculating energy in the gravitational store
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    • 2.2c – Calculating energy in the kinetic store
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    • 2.2d – Calculating energy in the elastic store
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    • 2.3 – The language of calculations
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    • 2.3a – Energy diagrams
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    • 2.4 – Practising energy calculations
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    • 2.5 – Quiz
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  • Expand3 – Heating up
    • 3 – Introduction: heating up
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    • 3.1 – Heating/Cooling Curves
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    • 3.1a – The shape of the graphs
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    • 3.1b – The particles and phase changes
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    • 3.1c – SHC and latent heat from the graph
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    • 3.1d – Experiments suitable for the lab
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    • 3.1e – Internal energy
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    • 3.2 – Specific Heat Capacity calculations
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    • 3.3 – Conceptual heating/cooling
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    • 3.4 – Thermal physics language
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    • 3.5 – Quiz
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  • Expand4 - Energy Resources
    • 4 – Introduction: energy resources
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    • 4.1 – Inside a power station
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    • 4.2 – Researching energy resources
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    • 4.3 – Developing science capital in energy
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    • 4.4 – Language of dissipation and energy resources
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    • 4.5 – Quiz
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  • Expand5 - Fuels and energy usage
    • 5 – Introduction: fuels and energy usage
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    • 5.1 – Energy in a domestic context – food
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    • 5.2 – Energy in a domestic context – home
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    • 5.2a – Electricity in the home
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    • 5.2b – Heating the home
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    • 5.2c – Heat pumps
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    • 5.3 – Energy in a domestic context – vehicles
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    • 5.4 – Quiz
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  • 20 hours study
  • 2Level 2: Intermediate
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SKPT - Energy 21/22

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