CIE IGCSE Physics: 1.7 Energy, Work and Power - Multiple Choice Questions

Understand energy. Practise applying it. Learn from every answer.

Energy questions require more than remembering equations. Students need to track energy transfers, distinguish useful and dissipated energy, interpret diagrams and apply work, power and efficiency ideas in different contexts. This focused worksheet develops those skills through calculations, graphs, diagrams and conceptual questions—with worked explanations to support their next attempt.

WHAT WILL STUDENTS PRACTISE?

• Identifying energy stores and transfer pathways
• Applying conservation of energy and recognising dissipation
• Calculating kinetic energy and gravitational potential energy
• Interpreting Sankey diagrams and multi-stage energy transfers
• Understanding work as energy transferred
• Calculating work using W = Fd
• Calculating power from work, energy and time
• Interpreting work–distance and energy–time graphs
• Comparing renewable and non-renewable energy resources
• Understanding electricity generation from different energy resources
• Evaluating advantages and disadvantages of energy resources
• Calculating efficiency from energy and power
• Understanding nuclear fusion in the Sun and fusion research

Questions combine calculations, graphs, Sankey diagrams, power-station diagrams and conceptual reasoning, helping students apply energy ideas across a wide range of exam-style situations.

IS THIS SUITABLE FOR CORE OR EXTENDED?

The worksheet contains 33 Core questions and 17 Supplement questions.

Core students should complete the unmarked questions. Extended students can attempt all 50. Supplement questions are clearly marked with a boxed S, making it easy to choose the appropriate practice.

WHAT MAKES THIS PACK USEFUL?

• Worked explanations for all 50 questions—not just an answer key
• A spacious layout with two questions per page
• Clear graphs, diagrams and Sankey diagrams
• A mix of calculations, conceptual reasoning and energy-resource questions
• Separate worksheet and mark-scheme PDFs for convenient practice and checking
• Clearly marked Core and Supplement content
• A syllabus coverage map to help organise revision

The mark scheme includes a complete answer key, worked explanations for every question, a syllabus coverage map and teacher notes on the source-paper analysis.

Use it for independent revision, homework, tutoring or a focused review after studying Topic 1.7 Energy, Work and Power.

HOW TO USE IT

Attempt the questions before opening the mark scheme. Check your answers, read the explanations and revisit any questions you found difficult.

For calculation questions, identify whether the problem involves energy, work, power or efficiency before choosing an equation. For energy-transfer questions, track where the energy starts, how it is transferred and where it eventually ends up.

YOUR DOWNLOAD

You receive a 26-page worksheet and a 14-page mark scheme: two printable PDFs, totalling 40 pages.

The worksheet contains 50 multiple-choice questions worth 50 marks, covering Core and Supplement content.

Preview images may be blurred to protect the content. The downloadable PDFs are complete and fully legible. This is a digital product; no physical item is shipped.

Written for Cambridge IGCSE Physics 0625 and 0972, covering the 2026–2028 syllabus and Topic 1.7 content including energy stores and transfers, work, energy resources, power and efficiency.

These are original exam-style practice questions, not reproduced past-paper questions or a full examination paper.

Independent practice material. Not produced or endorsed by Cambridge International Education.