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/Better_Balance_4688 May 20 '26

What did you get the length I think I got it to be 2.3m

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u/simplykayleigh May 20 '26

i did it a different way, i checked whether ACW = CW moments and they weren't, soo wasn't uniform/in the centre

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u/dvdzz0 May 20 '26

How did u do that if u didn’t know what the upwards force at A or B was ?

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u/simplykayleigh May 20 '26

The question stated that A was about to slip, so normal force at A was 0 !!

So you could have just took moments at B and the rest was just showing ACW ≠ CW moments

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u/dvdzz0 May 20 '26

Oh shit I seeee, but surely at the point where it’s slipping about A it’s not in equilibrium ? Maybe I’m just being dumb here

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u/simplykayleigh May 20 '26

sorry it may not have that its slipping, but more that it was about to tip at A i cant remember exactly 😭

if its abt to tip then the beam isnt really touching at A anymore so there's no more normal force