GCSE Physics Guide
12th March 2026 0:56
The study of the physics encompasses more than any other discipline. From 13.7 billion years ago all the way to billions of years into the future, from tiny fundamental particles to galaxy superclusters that are hundreds of millions of lightyears across… and everything in between – physics is an attempt to discover more about all of this.
GCSE physics teaches you how to do experiments rigorously. You’ll only be using this to test established physical laws when you do practicals in lessons, but the experimental methodology you’ll be learning is the same as that which is used to make scientific discoveries by professional physicists. However, these logical experimentation skills also apply to a wealth of real-world situations – that’s why you learn them at GCSE. You’ll also be practising working with equations and learning to describe the physical phenomena that are found across the universe.
The language of physics is maths and, therefore, mathematical skills are important for physics. However, the amount of maths required for GCSE physics is very small, and studying it should be accessible to anyone. Other than this, a willingness to learn and to think logically about the natural world will take you far in GCSE physics.