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AS AQA physics paper 2

I think that I have just sat the most abysmal paper that I’ve ever seen today it was horrific most people in my class didn’t even finish the paper. I would love to know everyone else’s opinion!

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Reply 1
I thought I could save my paper 1 grade with paper 2...... what a terrible idea that was

I also ran out of time; most people after the exam said the same.
Reply 2
Original post by asdffda
I thought I could save my paper 1 grade with paper 2...... what a terrible idea that was
I also ran out of time; most people after the exam said the same.
Yeah man I had a bad run with paper 1 as well I think that there may have been enough for an A grade but oh my god this physics exam is possibly the hardest that I have ever seen
Reply 3
Original post by Holmes21
I think that I have just sat the most abysmal paper that I’ve ever seen today it was horrific most people in my class didn’t even finish the paper. I would love to know everyone else’s opinion!

It was easy mate
Original post by Holmes21
I think that I have just sat the most abysmal paper that I’ve ever seen today it was horrific most people in my class didn’t even finish the paper. I would love to know everyone else’s opinion!

tears were shed all over the page😭😭
Reply 5
What was the answer for that question asking about force. I got 29000N or smth
It was difficult 😞
Reply 7
Original post by Aakzz
What was the answer for that question asking about force. I got 29000N or smth

Was that for the steel ball question?
Reply 8
Original post by Aakzz
What was the answer for that question asking about force. I got 29000N or smth

I think i got that too but it felt so weird multiplying pi * g * something times something idk if thats the way to do it the number just seems too silly to look legit
Reply 9
Original post by asdffda
I think i got that too but it felt so weird multiplying pi * g * something times something idk if thats the way to do it the number just seems too silly to look legit

I thought that the value for that was way too high so I ended up converting it into 30 N instead as who has that heavy of a steel ball laying around? 😂
Reply 10
Original post by Holmes21
Was that for the steel ball question?


Yeah
Reply 11
Original post by Holmes21
I thought that the value for that was way too high so I ended up converting it into 30 N instead as who has that heavy of a steel ball laying around? 😂


Yeah i did that too at first. Then i realised that u didnt actually have to convert the numbers to metres. They were supposed stay in mm. i ended changing my answer like 3 times.
Reply 12
How about that question about the pencil. Those calculations were so weird. Like, what did you guys get for Tpq, s, the acceleration, and the percentage uncertainty for the acceleration
Reply 13
Original post by Aakzz
How about that question about the pencil. Those calculations were so weird. Like, what did you guys get for Tpq, s, the acceleration, and the percentage uncertainty for the acceleration

I am kind of unsure but I think that I got something like 0.17m for S?
Reply 14
Original post by Holmes21
I am kind of unsure but I think that I got something like 0.17m for S?


Oh i got around 32mm. Im probably wrong tho. i measured the amplitude of the waves. I counted 16 squares and then i just multiplied by 2. For Tpq, i think i got something like 1.05 seconds. Also what was the reason for why the uncertainty being ±2 was valid. I was waffling about how the amplitudes were different.
Reply 15
Original post by Aakzz
Oh i got around 32mm. Im probably wrong tho. i measured the amplitude of the waves. I counted 16 squares and then i just multiplied by 2. For Tpq, i think i got something like 1.05 seconds. Also what was the reason for why the uncertainty being ±2 was valid. I was waffling about how the amplitudes were different.
Yeah I just measured from the normal line because I had no idea what else to do 😂, but I did get 1.05 seconds! I said that you used a cm ruler to measure the lines on the paper with each line having a +/-1mm uncertainty and then went onto say how you have to line up the 2 lines so the absolute uncertainties sum
Reply 16
Original post by Holmes21
Yeah I just measured from the normal line because I had no idea what else to do 😂, but I did get 1.05 seconds! I said that you used a cm ruler to measure the lines on the paper with each line having a +/-1mm uncertainty and then went onto say how you have to line up the 2 lines so the absolute uncertainties sum


Ohhh. Im so dumb. I was literally just about to write that down but i thought that was wrong. Anyway, for one question, you were asked to state the relationship between d and λ. What did u do for that.
Reply 17
Original post by Aakzz
Ohhh. Im so dumb. I was literally just about to write that down but i thought that was wrong. Anyway, for one question, you were asked to state the relationship between d and λ. What did u do for that.

Do you mean lambda and t or was it s And t? I can’t recall the question but either way they will be proportional because of the given formulas and for lambda and s it needed to be rearranged!
Original post by Aakzz
Ohhh. Im so dumb. I was literally just about to write that down but i thought that was wrong. Anyway, for one question, you were asked to state the relationship between d and λ. What did u do for that.

I guessed d = lambda/2 but it might be lambda/4
Reply 19
Original post by Holmes21
Do you mean lambda and t or was it s And t? I can’t recall the question but either way they will be proportional because of the given formulas and for lambda and s it needed to be rearranged!


That’s definitely nowhere near what i was thinking 😭

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