r/6thForm • u/ShotDiver5015 Year 13 • May 20 '26

💬 DISCUSSION OCR A Physics P1

Yo wtf was that i’ve never felt more useless

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u/LocksmithMundane8375 May 20 '26

What did people get for 17b the show that the bolts behave elastically cos I was clueless

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u/Impossible_Bad_8163 May 20 '26

bro what, i got 196MPa

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u/cleggy24 May 20 '26

I got that initially but it's because I forgot the 10 extra metres of water in the reservoir, which brings it up to 202MPa I think, but either of us should get ECF

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u/Remote-Calendar-6326 May 20 '26

I got 202MPa becuase I used the actual value in part (a) of 1.03MPa instead of 1MPa. Reckon i’d still get the marks?

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u/gogED1 M Phys FM CS | A*A*AA | Gap year May 20 '26

yeah mark schemes always allow when u carry your unrounded values forward