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AQA A2 MFP3 Further Pure 3 – 18th May 2016 [Exam Discussion Thread]

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Emi1998

how do you tell the difference between

y= Acosnx + Bsinnx for the complementary function from dy^2/dx^2 +n^2y

and y= Ae^-nx +Be^nx.

If you have
dy^2/dx^2 +n^2y , this will give k^2= +/- ni , so because it isn't real is it y=Acosx + Bsinx

dy^2/dx^2 -n^2y this will give k^2= n^2, so because it is real, is it y= Ae^(nx) +Be^(-nx)

Is this correct

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Roxanne18

Original post by TheLifelessRobot

For FM FP1, FP2, FP3, M2, S2, D1. How about you?

Same apart from I'm doing FP4 instead of D1

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Anonymoose12

What's the hardest FP3 paper? I think the hardest I remember doing was June 2014.

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C0balt

The exam is in 2 days but it doesn't feel real to me. Not sure if this is good or not lol

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Roxanne18

Original post by Anonymoose12

What's the hardest FP3 paper? I think the hardest I remember doing was June 2014.

I'd say 2015 was harder for me

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Hjyu1

Original post by Anonymoose12

What's the hardest FP3 paper? I think the hardest I remember doing was June 2014.

2014

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TheLifelessRobot

Original post by Roxanne18

Same apart from I'm doing FP4 instead of D1

How does FP4 compare to the other FP modules?

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zetamcfc

Original post by Anonymoose12

What's the hardest FP3 paper? I think the hardest I remember doing was June 2014.

2014 and 2015 by far the hardest.

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Roxanne18

Original post by TheLifelessRobot

How does FP4 compare to the other FP modules?

One of the most difficult along with FP2 I think.
The whole paper is about vectors, matrices, planes and things, which is good if you can get on with them, but I find it hard!

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Hjyu1

Original post by Roxanne18

One of the most difficult along with FP2 I think.
The whole paper is about vectors, matrices, planes and things, which is good if you can get on with them, but I find it hard!

What do you need overall in fm?

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Roxanne18

Original post by Hjyu1

What do you need overall in fm?

I need a B in it for university, but my school want me to get an A atleast. How about you ?

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Hjyu1

Original post by Roxanne18

I need a B in it for university, but my school want me to get an A atleast. How about you ?

Need an A for uni so trying to hopefully get 80-90 in this

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Roxanne18

Original post by Hjyu1

Need an A for uni so trying to hopefully get 80-90 in this

Good luck! Hope it goes well for you (:

(edited 7 years ago)

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Hjyu1

Original post by Roxanne18

Good luck! Hope it goes well for you (:

You too

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misslili118

Helppppppppp jan 12 paper question 8b(ii)

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B_9710

Original post by misslili118

Helppppppppp jan 12 paper question 8b(ii)

You know the radius of the circle (=4) and you know the angle AOB. The length of the arc is

r\theta

. The straight line is AB which should be easy to work out the length.

(edited 7 years ago)

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misslili118

Original post by B_9710

You know the radius of the circle (=4) and you know the angle AOB. The length of the arc is

r\theta

. The straight line is AB which should be easy to work out the length.

THANKS

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B_9710

Original post by misslili118

THANKS

Don't mistake the segment for the sector.

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Skatchan

What sort of knowledge from C3 and C4 do you guys reckon we might need? I know in past papers they've used partial fractions and Rcos(x-a).

Also, does anyone have a condensed version of the 2015 paper? I want to redo it as when we did it in school way back I got an E :s-smilie: