PHYSICS CURRICULUM

COMPARISON (SPM LEVEL) IN MALAYSIA, UNITED

KINGDOM AND SOUTH KOREA

MALAYSIA UNITED KINGDOM KOREA

TOPIC 4: HEAT TOPIC 4.3: PARTICLE MODEL

OF MATTER
4.1 Understanding thermal 4.3.1Changes of state and the 4th Grade
equilibrium particle model
Heat Transfer
A student is able to: 4.3.1.1 Density of materials
A student is able to:
1) Explain thermal equilibrium
A student is able to:
1) Explain heat transfer
2) Explain how a liquid-in-
Define density. by conduction,
glass thermometer works
convection and
1) Recognize/draw simple radiation.
4.2 Understanding specific heat diagrams to model the
capacity difference between 2) Identify real-life
solids, liquids and gases. examples of
A student is able to: conduction,
2) Explain the differences in convection and
1) Define specific heat density between the radiation.
capacity(c).
different states of matter
2) State that c = Q/m in terms of the 6th Grade
arrangements of the
3) Determine the specific atoms or molecules. Various Gases
heat capacity of a liquid.
4.3.1.2 Changes of state A student is able to:
4) Determine the specific
heat capacity of a solid.
A student is able to: 1) Explain qualitatively
5) Describe applications of the relationship
specific heat capacity 1) Describe how, when between the volume
substances change state of a gas and the
6) Solve problems involving (melt, freeze, boil, pressure on a gas.
specific heat capacity evaporate, condense or
sublimate), mass is 2) Explain qualitatively
4.3 Understanding specific
latent heat conserved. the relationship
between the volume
A student is able to: 4.3.2 Internal energy and of a gas and the
energy transfers temperature on a
1) State that transfer of heat gas.
 during a change of phase 4.3.2.1 Internal energy
does not cause a change 3) Understand how
in temperature. A student is able to: oxygen and carbon
dioxide form and
2) Define specific latent heat
(l) 1) Understand that heating their characteristics.
changes the energy
3) State that =q/m stored within the system 4) Investigate the
by increasing the energy gases used in daily
4) Determine the specific of the particles that make life and explain them
latent heat of fusion. up the system. This using the nature of
either raises the gases.
5) Determine the specific
latent heat of vaporization. temperature of the 7th Grade
system or produces a
6) Solve problems involving change of state. Three Phases of Matter
specific latent heat.
A student is able to:
4.3.2.2 Temperature changes
4.4 Understanding the gas laws
in a system and specific heat 1) Observe the various
A student is able to: capacity phase changes such
as vaporization,
1) Explain gas pressure, A student is able to: liquefaction,
temperature and volume in solidification,
terms of the behavior of 1) Apply the equation of melting, and
gas molecules. ∆𝐸 = 𝑚𝑐∆𝜃, to calculate sublimation and
the energy change explain them by
2) Determine the relationship
involved when the using models.
between pressure and
volume at constant temperature of a material
temperature for a fixed changes. 2) Compare the
mass of gas i.e. pv differences in
=constant. 4.3.2.3 Changes of heat and molecular
specific latent heat arrangement
3) Determine the relationship depending on the
between volume and
A student is able to: phase of matter, and
temperature at constant
pressure for a fixed mass to realize the
of gas i.e. v / constant. 1) Interpret heating and importance of model
cooling graphs that usage and its
4) Determine the relationship include changes of state. limitations.
between pressure and
temperature at constant 2) Define the term specific Molecular Motion
volume for a fixed mass of
gasI.e. P/t= constant. heat capacity
A student is able to:
5) Explain absolute zero 3) Distinguish between
specific heat capacity 1) Explain evaporation
and specific latent heat. and diffusion using
 models.
4.3.3 Particle Model and
Pressure 2) Explain using
experimental data,
4.3.3.1 Particle motion in the relationship
gases between the
pressure and
A student is able to: volume of a gas and
the temperature and
1) Explain how the motion volume of a gas.
of the molecules in a gas
is related to both its 3) Explain volume
temperature and its changes according
pressure. to the pressure of a
gas or the
2) Explain qualitatively the temperature of gas
relation between the using models.
temperature of a gas and
its pressure at constant Phase Change and
volumes. Energy

4.3.3.2 Pressure in gases A student is able to:

A student is able to: 1) Measure the

temperature
1) Use the particle model to changes in the
explain how increasing phase change of
the volume in which a matter and explain
gas is contained, at the phase changes
constant temperature, relating to thermal
can lead to a decrease in energy.
pressure.
2) Explain the energy
2) Calculate the change in coming in and out in
the pressure of a gas or phase changes,
the volume of a gas (a relating to molecular
fixed mass held at motion
constant temperature)
when either the pressure 8th Grade
or volume is increased or
decreased. Thermal Energy

4.3.3.3 Increasing the A student is able to:

pressure of a gas
 1) Explain heat
A student is able to: balance

1) Explain how, in a given 2) Understand specific

situation e.g. a bicycle heat and the heat
pump, doing work on an capacity of solids
enclosed gas leads to an and liquids.
increase in the
temperature of the gas. 3) Know that thermal
expansion is
different between
solids and liquids
and identify
examples using the
differences in
thermal expansion.