Combined Science GCSE
Using models to explain physical properties
What Using models to explain physical properties means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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These diagrams model differences in density, shape and volume: solids keep a fixed shape and volume, liquids take the shape of their container but keep a fixed volume, and gases fill their container.
Topics that use Using models to explain physical properties
- Density of materials (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Changes of state and energy transfer
- Density
- Density and particle spacing
- Displacement technique
- Floating and sinking
- Mass
- Particle arrangement and motion in solids, liquids and gases
- Particle model of matter
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