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Our Solar System is Physics only (separate science) content on all four boards.
Examined in Edexcel 1PH0/1 (Paper 1). Context-based questions use real mission data and telescope observations. Expect questions on the order of the planets, how ideas about the Solar System have changed, and how gravity keeps objects in orbit (qualitative only).
What examiners love to ask:
- Order the planets from the Sun and classify rocky vs gas giants
- State what a light year is (distance, not time)
- Describe the structure of the solar system: planets, moons, asteroids, comets
- Explain how gravity keeps a planet in orbit with a changing velocity but an unchanged speed
- Compare circular and elliptical orbits
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