Physics GCSE
Area
What Area means in Physics GCSE, as defined for AQA, OCR.
Definitions of Area
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Reference: AQA
The size of a surface, measured in square metres (m²), not metres or cubic metres.
Calculated from measured lengths, for example length × width, and recorded in m².
Topics that use Area
- Pressure in a fluid 1 (AQA GCSE)
- Energy (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- Accuracy
- force
- Measurement of energy transfer
- newton
- particle arrangement
- Pascal (Pa)
- Pressure
- Pressure in fluids
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