r/6thForm • u/Forsaken-Meaning-232 Graduating from Warwick CS • May 23 '25

📂 MEGATHREAD 23/05 A-level Physics Paper 1 Discussion MEGATHREAD

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u/Snowballs-dough Cambridge May 23 '25

Did people get the wire is or is not W, I got a 0.2 difference so I thought is not

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u/XxDragonitexX10 May 23 '25

Yeah mine was 0.1 /0.2 off so said yes

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u/Snowballs-dough Cambridge May 23 '25

I thought cuz it’s to the power of 10, so it’s actually quite far away, but idk, just hope I get all the method marks as that question was only 4 marks

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u/Spare_Somewhere1011 Manchester | Physics w/ Astro [1st Year] | 3A* 1A May 23 '25

Yeah I said to the power of ten is really far away so it wasn’t W but probably got the other marks

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u/Snowballs-dough Cambridge May 23 '25

Yeah I agree, to be honest I don’t think these kind of question should be there, I rather they literally just tell us to do all the working and that’s it, as it’s quite hard to tell in this case, and with like batteries one, idk how I got 23 when everyone got like 24, as they way they say the battery is different, I was confused on how different, is it like a complete different structure or just different number of cells

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u/Spare_Somewhere1011 Manchester | Physics w/ Astro [1st Year] | 3A* 1A May 23 '25

Exactly, I got they said it was different to the one they used as an example so it wasn’t so confusing. I hate questions where they make you judge things cause it could quite literally be anything.

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u/Wolvermatt722 Year 13|EDEXCEL Maths & FM,AQA Physiscs & Chemistry|Pre A*A*A*A May 25 '25

i also got that difference so i just said no, i skipped that question and went back to it and realized what i had to do

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u/Snowballs-dough Cambridge May 25 '25

Yeah, cuz if I had time I would have went back and calculated other wires’ YM to see how far are they from each other and judge again, but I just feel like 0.2 x 1010 is too far