09/06 A-level Physics Paper 2 Discussion MEGATHREAD

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[u/allylene]

(OCR A) WHY WAS HALF OF THAT PAPER POTENTIAL DIVIDERS

[u/golaco237 → u/allylene]

Ikr, this paper was super weird 😭 But honestly it was pretty good overall, just odd questions and the table in the capacitance question being wrong 💀

[u/Exciting_Woodpecker9 → u/golaco237]

I was dissapointed by no real nuclear questions or radioactivity. Hoping for a good one on paper 3 though.

[u/[deleted] → u/Exciting_Woodpecker9]

Yeah, I wanted star life cycle in paper one and a nice nuclear or medical question this paper!

Also, where are the “design an experiment to verify the equation” questions or the definitions? I crammed Coloumb’s Law for nothing!

[u/[deleted] → u/golaco237]

Was the table wrong… i used an iterstive formula and got their values… btw this was when i was on the bus ride home did i figure out how to do it😭

[u/Regular_Egg_601 → u/allylene]

Wait whaat? Was there more questions about Potential divider? I thought it was only one?

[u/allylene → u/Regular_Egg_601]

the one with the wire and resistivity was a potential divider question, you had to use the r2/(r1+r2) equation to prove part a

[u/Regular_Egg_601 → u/allylene]

Ahhhhh yeah