Edexcel GCSE Astronomy 1AS0 · 10
Solar astronomy
- Code
- 10
- Topic of
- Edexcel GCSE Astronomy 1AS0
- Course
- GCSE Astronomy 1AS0
- Board
- Edexcel
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Codes and titles are read by a script from Edexcel's published specification and have not been checked by a person. What each point covers is in the specification itself: Edexcel’s specification.
Points under 10
- 10.1 Safe telescopic observation of the Sun
- 10.2 Internal divisions of the Sun
- 10.3 Energy production and transfer in the Sun
- 10.4 The proton-proton cycle
- 10.5 Chromosphere and corona
- 10.6 Sunspots
- 10.7 Solar rotation from sunspot data
- 10.8 The solar cycle
- 10.9 The Sun across the electromagnetic spectrum
- 10.10 The solar wind
- 10.11 Effects of the solar wind
- 10.12 The magnetosphere and Van Allen Belts
Topics in 1AS0
- 1 Planet Earth
- 2 The lunar disc
- 3 The Earth-Moon-Sun system
- 4 Time and the Earth-Moon-Sun cycles
- 5 Solar System observation
- 6 Celestial observation
- 7 Early models of the Solar System
- 8 Planetary motion and gravity
- 9 Exploring the Moon
- 10 Solar astronomy
- 11 Exploring the Solar System
- 12 Formation of planetary systems
- 13 Exploring starlight
- 14 Stellar evolution
- 15 Our place in the Galaxy
- 16 Cosmology
- OBS Observational skills
- A Unaided tasks
- B Aided tasks