Further Science

GCSE Course

"Further Science" is aimed at those who either; prefer Science to any other option or those who know that they will study Science at AS/A2 level and want to broaden their scientific understanding.

It is a course which will include the interesting theories and practicals which have been removed from the GCSE course over the last few years and should prove invaluable for the potential "Oxbridge Scientist".

The course is taught by specialists from the three separate Sciences and the topics covered are:

Biology

• Animal behaviour
• Human Evolution
• Plant reproduction
• The eye
• Genetic engineering
• Nitrogen cycle
• Immobilised enzymes

Chemistry

• Data logging experiments
• Specific Heat Capacity
• Salt Synthesis
• Food Chemistry
• Electro-plating
• Calorimetry

Physics

• Scalars and Vectors
• Hooke's Law and Force Extension graphs
• Orbits and gravity
• Magnetism
• Circuit design and logic gates
• Critical Angle and Snell's law
• Boyle's law, Charles law and the Pressure Law 
• Pressure, density and volume,
• Brownian motion