Edexcel A-Level Physics Paper 3 - 3 June 2019 [Exam Discussion]

Which derivation will most likely come up now once ap1 and ap2 are done?

hey everyone, how are you preparing for paper 3 apart from doing the linear papers?

Many common topics haven’t come up too much yet, if at all.
To name a few capacitors, photoelectric effect and pretty much everything on space apart from the Doppler effect.
I can definitely see capacitors coming up. Can’t remember 1 year they didn’t.

Many common topics haven’t come up too much yet, if at all.
To name a few capacitors, photoelectric effect and pretty much everything on space apart from the Doppler effect.
I can definitely see capacitors coming up. Can’t remember 1 year they didn’t.

Cyclotrons/linacs too

A very accurate (most accurate for the time) value for the speed of light was apparently calculated using a capacitor in the early 20th century, (Rosa and Dorsey) apparently. More reasonably we might get the capacitor CPAC.

Off the top of my head some stuff that hasn't popped up properly yet:

Yup, can definitely see the capacitors cpac come through.
Most things that haven’t come up yet are actually not bad at all. Who knows though, it is Edexcel after all.

True but cyclotrons have come twice, if I’m not wrong, in these last couple of years + SAM. Linacs or even particle detectors would be welcome any day though.

Also the investigation of distance between capacitor plates and capacitance, (C = k/d) but I'm not sure if that's popped up before, definitely has on the old spec.

Hey guys, here's a friendly private candidate that really really need your help, if that's possible.May I ask how are you all preparing for the third paper? For past papers, I thought unit 3 and unit 6 papers from the old spec and the two Paper 3 from 2017 and 2018 are relatively related? But I don't know whether there's still any need to do the other papers such as in Unit 1/2/4/5 or Paper 1/2 in case of preparing Paper 3?Also, for going though the practicals, do you have any suggestions on how to do that? Should I just go over the textbook (for the 'Investigation's written in purple) OR hopefully could you offer me some helpful advice?By the way, I found that there are many 'Investigation' written in the textbook in purple, but not all of them are in the specification. Are all of them the kind of practicals that I should revise for?Lastly, in case of 'Stellar evolution' (P179-181 on A2 textbook), do you guys think that's gonna come up in the third paper or how? coz that part is really my nightmare that I don't know how to get marks or how to revise for...Thank you guys so so much! Hopefully to hear from you!

Hey guys, here's a friendly private candidate that really really need your help, if that's possible.May I ask how are you all preparing for the third paper? For past papers, I thought unit 3 and unit 6 papers from the old spec and the two Paper 3 from 2017 and 2018 are relatively related? But I don't know whether there's still any need to do the other papers such as in Unit 1/2/4/5 or Paper 1/2 in case of preparing Paper 3?Also, for going though the practicals, do you have any suggestions on how to do that? Should I just go over the textbook (for the 'Investigation's written in purple) OR hopefully could you offer me some helpful advice?By the way, I found that there are many 'Investigation' written in the textbook in purple, but not all of them are in the specification. Are all of them the kind of practicals that I should revise for?Lastly, in case of 'Stellar evolution' (P179-181 on A2 textbook), do you guys think that's gonna come up in the third paper or how? coz that part is really my nightmare that I don't know how to get marks or how to revise for...Thank you guys so so much! Hopefully to hear from you!

Is doing paper 1 and 2 past papers overkill or can I just read through textbooks for general revision?

I am going to revise uncertainty, practical methods and the core practicals regardless.

Where/how can you revise this?

Where/how can you revise this?