AQA B A2 Practical Exam.

Hello, I didnt see any thread on the second A2 practical exam which is two exercise questions...Does anyone have any tips or knows what it could be about..Could it be something on electricity...?

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Reply 1

MACBABE1

hey thats on monday isnt it , reply asap ??x

Reply 2

Robbolo

Its on monday?.....****

Reply 3

SpencerUK

~Hey! I have my practical on monday. i think its on Specific heat capacity and latent heat and Resistivity. Anyone got any other news about it?
cheers
Spence

Reply 4

Robbolo

Resistivty sounds likely, where did you get the idea of latent/specific heat capacity from?

Reply 5

Minthumbug

yeah, how do you know what's it's going to be on?

(not that i'm complaining of course :P just wondering how valid the info you gave is :smile:

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Reply 6

SpencerUK

Don't know if its 'supposed' to be. Just one of the areas that my teachers told me to "read up on". :smile:

Anyone else think that these practicals seem a bit of a stab in the dark?
Hows people prep for their PHB5 going?
Spence :wink:

Reply 7

alexmac9

SpencerUK

~Hey! I have my practical on monday. i think its on Specific heat capacity and latent heat and Resistivity. Anyone got any other news about it?
cheers
Spence

Can anyone corroborate this list of topics that are 'likely to come up' ?

Reply 8

Robbolo

We went over resistivity in our last physics lesson ever, so that agrees with that part. But heat capacity seems a little too wild to be a random hint, so could be worth reading up on.

Reply 9

Neo1

Yea the resistivity is likely...though wouldnt that be AS stuff since that is part of the AS course...It would prob be about changing length and area of wire? but isnt that too easy?...

Reply 10

Robbolo

Wasnt in AS prac.

Wasnt the pendulum principal in exerise 1 on the AS syllabus too?
They can do any topics in the pracs AS or A2.

You say changing length is too easy? thats all we did in exc 1.

Reply 11

Neo1

Yea you're right, I always thought A2 practicals would be way harder but in fact its just the same as the AS ones if not much easier since the one we got last year in June was really hard...
I Hope it isnt on capacitors.. :confused:

Reply 12

prempcd

pheww

and i was readin up particle accelarators....

Reply 13

SpencerUK

Yeh u hope so too! Capacitors experiments always end up messy...
I think just make sure you have uncertainties sorted and erm know your basic formulas. And hopefully we'll be fine!
I wanna hear how you guys found it though! :biggrin:

Spence

Reply 14

Robbolo

Capacitors havnt crossed my mind....*fingers crossed*

Hmmm....logs were missing from exc1 right? Anyone think theyll make an appearence in exc2, and is so, would it fit in with the resistivity and spec heat capacity ideas so far?

Reply 15

Neo1

particle accelerators lol!...i doubt the school can afford those... :biggrin:

Capacitors is a bit tricky and yea very messy...hope it doesnt come up..

I'll let you know how it goes.. :smile:

Reply 16

LauraJayne

Why didnt I find this thread last night... :rolleyes:

Good job Robbolo filled me in :P

But yeah, if anyone happens to still be looking on here this close to the exam, remember it's a paper with a synoptic element, so they can bring in knowledge from either AS or A2, so Resistivity is a likely candidate :]

I hope it is now... I don't know what else to revise!!

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