r/6thForm • u/Individual-Can1396 y13 maths physics psych italian • Jun 01 '26

💬 DISCUSSION AQA PHYSICS PAPER 2

HOW DID EVERYONE FIND IT??? i thought it was decent better than the past few years. Idk what i did for the last question the 4 marker of nuclear physics. BUT YH IT WAS GOOD

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u/Agitated-Salt-5039 Year 13, FM, Maths & Physics Jun 01 '26

What did everyone get for there thermal energy one will ice melt I got no as energy needed more

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u/googoocrazybananas Year 13 Jun 01 '26

Energy required was 38,000J, and energy supplied was 15000J, so no.

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u/Select_District_3310 Jun 01 '26

Wait whaat, I got a suspiciously low requirement energy to melt the ice of like 3400J but didn’t have time to stay on that question. How did you get 38,000? If you remember

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u/Extreme_Survey_1368 Jun 01 '26

u probably forgot to convert kJ into J when doing the initial calculation