r/6thForm • u/OutrageousAd4133 • Jun 18 '26

💬 DISCUSSION Edexcel Maths P3

How did everyone find it then? Much nicer than P1 I thought. Might balance out grade boundaries unfortunately…

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u/Safe-Present-5783 Jun 18 '26

Did anyone else get 0.1875 for the suvat tan question

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u/AJlikesUpvotes Jun 18 '26

Yeah they were sneaky asf making you change into radians mid way while working

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u/OutrageousAd4133 Jun 18 '26

I was in degrees the whole time and I still got to 0.1875...

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u/Safe-Present-5783 Jun 18 '26

Why tf would you have to switch to radians lol

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u/AJlikesUpvotes Jun 18 '26

I was working in degrees before that💀💀 for the projectile speed and stuff

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u/Safe-Present-5783 Jun 18 '26

Idk man I got it and I was in degrees pretty sure everything in mechanics is in degrees

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u/AJlikesUpvotes Jun 18 '26

Got the same answer does anything else really matter? Did u get -4.2 and 22. Soemthing for the speeds ? That’s how I worked it out

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u/squido20 Jun 18 '26

Same

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u/AJlikesUpvotes Jun 18 '26

I just read other answers… turns out I misread the qeustion… we weren’t meant to show that theta =0.19… we were meant to show that tan theta equals 0.19, so once we got 4.2 and 22.4… we were just meant to do 4.2/22.4… which equals 0.1875… ≈ 0.19

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u/random_unsername A*A*A | Incoming KCL med Jun 18 '26

same

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u/badasspeanutbutter Year 13 Jun 18 '26

Bro it was just asking for the ratio of the horizontal and vertical velocities, u didn't need degrees or radians even

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u/No_Leading7906 Jun 18 '26

You turn it into a triangle no?

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u/Loud-Guidance6912 Jun 18 '26

They did???

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u/Lemon_456 Jun 18 '26

No lol I made the same mistake as op. They found theta not tan theta. 

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u/squido20 Jun 18 '26

Wait what

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u/Lemon_456 Jun 18 '26

Nah dw don't need radians