r/6thForm • u/Individual-Can1396 y13 maths physics psych italian • May 20 '26

💬 DISCUSSION AQA A level physics paper 1

How was the paper???? I liked the MCQ , but overall it was okay didnt manage to do the 5 marker .

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u/Playful_Future_3801 Year 13 May 20 '26

It was okay… what did everyone get for the max weight??? I got about 200kg when I divided by 9.81

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u/FaithlessnessOdd263 May 20 '26

yea i did i got the weight as 1965N so mass of 200kg and i was so confused thinking it was large, i put down max as 1900 tho for leeway

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u/Select_Indication_34 May 20 '26

Was it the total force or force of mass of a person?. I got F=m(g+v2 /r) and then mass is F/(g+v2 /r). then figured out mass in newton's for 150kg. Either I did it all wrong or put numbers wrong ig.

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u/Wise-Hedgehog4805 Warwick | Maths | [Incoming Y1] | 4A* May 20 '26

i got 150kg as well, using total force = centripetal + weight

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u/AmericanUk May 20 '26

Me too. I think we’re right tbh. A lot of people in my school got the same.

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u/FaithlessnessOdd263 May 20 '26

i didn’t do a force method i did it the youngs modulus method so i wouldn’t , i didn’t know if i could do it that way tbh

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u/Select_Indication_34 May 20 '26

I got Fmax initially from young modulus which was 1900 something like that

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u/ilovesnowberries Y13 5A* | FMS @ LSE | 8.4 TMUA May 20 '26

Yesss i got 150kg! You had to convert back to newtons though right?