Remembering GCSE physics equations made easy

Are you struggling to remember GCSE physics equations? Well fear not, lets use memory aids like images and catchphrases to help you along!!!

These GCSE physics equations are on all examboards, inluding AQA, Edexcel, and OCR

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[mr.keebler]

Great to see all of the pictures of your family.

[patomalley]

50 years too late for me but brilliantly advised. I will post on FB as I have many niece's and nephew's who could benefit and maybe some oldies myself included who will benefit. Bit thank you BCz

[xhandr]

Equations (* means squared) (^ means cubed)

Fat Mate Alex = [F = M x A]
N = Kg x m/s*
Poo Very Icy = [P = V x I]
W = V x Amps
Vin In Red = [V = I x R] (voltage = current x resistace)
volts = amps x ohms
Quality Street In Tins = [Q = I x T]
Charge = amps x seconds
(coulombs)
Gosh - My Hairy Granny = [GPE = mass x height x gravity]
(Gravitational Potential Energy)
J = Kg x m x m/s*
Walk Fat Duck = [W = F x D]
Work = Force x Distance
J = N x M
People Putting Eggs Ontop Of Tom = W = J
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S
Power = Energy/Time

Weed My Garden = [Weight = Mass x Gravity]
N = Kg x m/s*

Mum Murders Vultures = [Momentum = Mass x Velocity]
Kgm/s = Kg x m/s

Dad Spreads Marmite on Vultures = Density = Mass

Volume
Kgm^ = Kg/m^

Enjoy !

[anonymous]

I wish you were my physics teacher many decades ago when I was a student, ,
Space comma space comma

[CRDGaming]

Very Helpful mate! I’ve Got my Physics exam Wednesday and this has helped a lot

[magherafelttutoring]

Showed this to some of the students I tutor. There were many groans, so hopefully they'll remember a few 😄

[AlanEvans]

My favourite is "Old McDonald's Farm" for remembering the formula for capacitance: Eo Er A over Ducks. Where Eo is Permitivity of Free Space, Er is Relative Permitivity, A is the area of the plates, and ducks is the distance between the plates. It obviously worked because I haven't needed to calculate the capacitance in 25 years.

[Twistedhippy]

exams!!! I haven't studied!!!
Oh hang on.
I'm 43.
I've had this dream think about Jennifer Jennifer

[YourPalAlRetroGamer]

Not physics but I like: Some Old Hippie Caught Another Hippie Trippin' On Acid.
Which helps you remember the trig functions.

[steveaustin]

These days I have enough trouble remembering why I'm out in the kitchen

[ChrisParlett]

Who else remembers: "The cat sat on an orange and howled hard."?

[mayabaker]

when he called me outttt.... i have my physics mock tomorrow

[jerry]

Aaarrrgh... You made one of my most hated errors made by students: it’s “kg” not “Kg”. And you did it more than once!

[johnforkan]

Not gonna lie. This is a saver.
I can't keep up!

[carlbrowning]

You would have totally peed off one of my electronics profs with this. I recall him telling us we'd learn the color codes without resorting to reciting bad poetry. Still, great mental jogs lol, thanks!

[jennimorgan]

Naked Gravy Wrestler... Baldy, you’re making me hot. 😂🤣😂🤣😂

[chipstick]

Great video, I’m not doing GCSE’s, but great imagery.
Oh yeah, 🤪

[jodocus]

Ha! I never thought GCSE is so different in other country's. Almost all of the symbols are different here. Where you use V=IR, we use U=IR for example. In the Netherlands we use latin symbols. U stands for the latin urgere, what means something like push or press.

[fireballoontv]

Q=IxT
I always remember that as QUIT... It just helps to see that even science finds this hard 😂

[PaulTheSkeptic]

How does Icy equate to VI? And why poo? Doesn't Pee better represent P? So when you went to Rome, you took a piss 6 times which is why P = the Roman numeral 6 or VI.


But this is excellent memory technique. I read a book all about this memory technique. There are memory contests where people memorize entire decks of cards, dozens or hundreds of faces in a row, long sequences of random numbers etc. This is how they do it. One of the other things the book talked about was these inner city kids. These were the kids that everyone had given up on. These were kids who were just waiting until it was legal for them to drop out and begin their life of crime or of working dead end jobs. They were by this time in babysitting class basically. I think our school called it "Dropout prevention". This teacher walks in, gives them a test which they all fail. Then he gives it to them again after some simple memory techniques and they all pass.


I think then he said something like "What the hell is going on? Everyone knew you were stupid, you proved you were stupid, your whole life everyone has been telling you that you're stupid but here it is not ten minutes later and and you're passing. You're doing it." I'm probably not doing it justice but in the book, it was a very inspirational moment. Apparently, this teacher took these future dropouts and transformed them into proper academics in a very short time. Because he gave a shit I guess. And from what I understand from the book, they excelled from then on. I guess all they needed was a little guidance and someone to believe in them.


I suppose your most of your schools over there are well funded and functional. There are some schools over here that are really bad. Not all of them of course but some of our inner city schools are really bad. Anyway, I thought you might be interested in that. He sounds like quite the man. I wish I could give you more information but I read this many years ago.