21st Century Science GCSE Unit 2 P4P5P6 - Thursday 2nd February 2012

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  1. jLou711's Avatar
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    Re: 21st Century Science GCSE Unit 2 P4P5P6 - Thursday 2nd February 2012
    Anyone write 10000N for the one which stops the motorbike/car in 5 second?

    Rearrange it? so Change/Time = Resultant force?

    50000/5 = 10000N?

    Imo sounds more likely than 4N to stop a car travelling at 20m/s in 5 seconds... :L but alot of people had various answers
  2. lucasluke's Avatar
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    Re: 21st Century Science GCSE Unit 2 P4P5P6 - Thursday 2nd February 2012
    looking at all these answers makes me feel sick lol!
    i did it all wrong... hopefully the boundaries are really low
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    Re: 21st Century Science GCSE Unit 2 P4P5P6 - Thursday 2nd February 2012
    (Original post by lucasluke)
    looking at all these answers makes me feel sick lol!
    i did it all wrong... hopefully the boundaries are really low
    I know exactly how you feel.
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    Re: 21st Century Science GCSE Unit 2 P4P5P6 - Thursday 2nd February 2012
    (Original post by bookworm786)
    Lol i hope everyone else fails too
    urrrrgh. I am one of these failures :nn:
    gonna fail so badly. would be ELATED if I manage an A by accident (or pure luck )
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    Re: 21st Century Science GCSE Unit 2 P4P5P6 - Thursday 2nd February 2012
    (Original post by jLou711)
    Anyone write 10000N for the one which stops the motorbike/car in 5 second?

    Rearrange it? so Change/Time = Resultant force?

    50000/5 = 10000N?

    Imo sounds more likely than 4N to stop a car travelling at 20m/s in 5 seconds... :L but alot of people had various answers
    well... it does sound reasonable if the answer is 4N because if you imagine someone pulling the motorbike 4Kg every second, that does add up to 20 (if you do 4Kg x 5s), meaning in 5 seconds, the motorbike will stop.

    10000N??? Doesn't sound reasonable...
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    Re: 21st Century Science GCSE Unit 2 P4P5P6 - Thursday 2nd February 2012
    (Original post by TwlilightLoz)
    well... it does sound reasonable if the answer is 4N because if you imagine someone pulling the motorbike 4Kg every second, that does add up to 20 (if you do 4Kg x 5s), meaning in 5 seconds, the motorbike will stop.

    10000N??? Doesn't sound reasonable...
    4N is not 4kg

    40N is 4kg

    20m/s is roughly 45mph..
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    Re: 21st Century Science GCSE Unit 2 P4P5P6 - Thursday 2nd February 2012
    what did people put for the 'friction' question? hateeed ALL the calc questions
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    Re: 21st Century Science GCSE Unit 2 P4P5P6 - Thursday 2nd February 2012
    I put 1000N for the force one...
    & What did people put for the total internal reflection one?
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    Re: 21st Century Science GCSE Unit 2 P4P5P6 - Thursday 2nd February 2012
    (Original post by Angelica.)
    I put 1000N for the force one...
    & What did people put for the total internal reflection one?
    internal
    reflection
    refraction
    90

    or do you mean the diagram?
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    Re: 21st Century Science GCSE Unit 2 P4P5P6 - Thursday 2nd February 2012
    yeah, the diagram, there was a bit of confusion
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    Re: 21st Century Science GCSE Unit 2 P4P5P6 - Thursday 2nd February 2012
    (Original post by Angelica.)
    yeah, the diagram, there was a bit of confusion
    don't know how to describe it...

    I drew it as if it was being reflected. cos I had no idea what to do.
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    Re: 21st Century Science GCSE Unit 2 P4P5P6 - Thursday 2nd February 2012
    do you reckon the boundary for an A* will be like 35 or 36 or do you think the boundary will be lower than the recent paper where it was 27 so do you reckon it'll be like 24/25/26 for an A*?
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    Re: 21st Century Science GCSE Unit 2 P4P5P6 - Thursday 2nd February 2012
    i drew it inside, but my line went outside the block... I think it may remain same.. I doubt OCR will drop the boundary below 27 for an A*. Depends though on how the country performed... they look pretty bad if everyone fails
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    Re: 21st Century Science GCSE Unit 2 P4P5P6 - Thursday 2nd February 2012
    (Original post by science-oliver)
    do you reckon the boundary for an A* will be like 35 or 36 or do you think the boundary will be lower than the recent paper where it was 27 so do you reckon it'll be like 24/25/26 for an A*?
    most people I have spoken to are like 'it was SOOO hard'. others are like 'it was okay'.

    I think its gonna be around the 28/30 mark for an A*. no lower.

    defo won't drop lower than 27.
  15. Angelica.'s Avatar
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    Re: 21st Century Science GCSE Unit 2 P4P5P6 - Thursday 2nd February 2012
    Yeah.. any others anyone wanted to discuss?
  16. (L)*'s Avatar
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    Re: 21st Century Science GCSE Unit 2 P4P5P6 - Thursday 2nd February 2012
    What did you put for the last question?
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    Re: 21st Century Science GCSE Unit 2 P4P5P6 - Thursday 2nd February 2012
    (Original post by (L)*)
    What did you put for the last question?
    The answer to the last Question was the bottom tick box.
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    Re: 21st Century Science GCSE Unit 2 P4P5P6 - Thursday 2nd February 2012
    What did everyone choose for the person with the incorrect statement?

    I picked Darrel.
  19. (L)*'s Avatar
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    Re: 21st Century Science GCSE Unit 2 P4P5P6 - Thursday 2nd February 2012
    (Original post by the A* guy)
    The answer to the last Question was the bottom tick box.
    I can't even remember what I ticked now. :facepalm:

    URGH

    thankyou
  20. (L)*'s Avatar
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    Re: 21st Century Science GCSE Unit 2 P4P5P6 - Thursday 2nd February 2012
    (Original post by the A* guy)
    What did everyone choose for the person with the incorrect statement?

    I picked Darrel.
    same here :yy:
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