Topic pages keep practical work and physics ideas connected.
Year 9
Year 9 Physics Foundations
Practical skills, springs, thermal physics, density, planetary ideas, moments, oscillations, and simple circuits.
Year 9 is structured as a foundations course that prepares students for later physics by building practical confidence, graph skills, and clear conceptual models.
Overview
Course focus
Year 9 is about building the foundations that make later physics easier to understand. The main focus is on practical work, careful measurement, graph skills, and simple models that explain what you observe.
Across the year, you move from practical skills into springs, thermal ideas, density, planetary physics, moments, oscillations, and simple circuits. By the end of the course, you should be more confident with planning an investigation, handling data, using equations, and explaining physical patterns clearly.
Build confidence with graphs, uncertainty, and experimental analysis.
Lesson pages break each topic into manageable steps.
Topics
Topic map for Year 9
Open a topic to see the lesson sequence, key resources, and revision support for that unit.
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01Practical Skills
Develop the habits of accurate measurement, safe equipment use, method writing, graph analysis, and error identification.
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02Springs
Investigate the relationship between force and extension, use Hooke's law, and apply spring ideas in practical contexts.
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03Thermal
Use the kinetic theory model to explain states of matter, thermal expansion, heating, specific heat capacity, and latent heat.
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04Density
Use the density equation, determine volume for regular and irregular objects, and apply density experimentally to solids, liquids, and gases.
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05Planetary
Use solar cells, angle, and day length data to explain seasons and changing energy input across the Earth.
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06Moments
Use the moment equation to balance systems, determine unknown weights, and plan simple weighing investigations.
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07Oscillations
Define oscillations, measure time period, calculate frequency, and use straight-line graph methods to find unknown quantities.
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08Resistance of a Wire
Introduce charge and circuit diagrams, use basic circuit equations, compare models of current flow, and investigate resistance in a wire.
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