Physics GCSE
Explaining mechanisms
What Explaining mechanisms means in Physics GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Explaining mechanisms
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Heating changes how easily charge carriers move through the material, altering resistance, so the shape of the graph is linked to whether resistance is constant or changing.
Topics that use Explaining mechanisms
- Simple circuits (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- Cell polarity conventions
- constant resistance
- Current
- diode
- E = P t
- Energy transferred
- Equivalent resistance in series
- filament lamp
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