GCSE Slander 2024 - AQA Physics Paper 1 (Higher)

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AQA Physics Paper 1 (Higher)

[JustTheZero]

What did you guys get?

2.4V or 2V
20m or 40m

[negnoms]

the picture of the static shock lady had me laughing for a full minute 💀 why was she winking

[nicholasrempel]

I have never seen anyone happier during an exam than that woman with her hand on the metal dome she looked like she was having the time of her life

[siyasood]

wtfff why were their so many conversions and questions with a standard form answer??? ...or am i cooked?

[confuzzled_child]

all the maths questions in that paper had me fighting tears in the exam hall - AQA had me rethinking life and everything

[Y_Chen]

Actually there was an RPA, it was the resistance of a wire one

[mayarpapayar]

There were too many recurring decimal answers bro. Where was the “round to 3sf”????

[cynthially]

this shit was a fever dream legit idk what was happening im ngl 💀cooked

[dramalover]

UNOFFICIAL MARK SCHEME -
1.1 Thermal or kinetic

1.2 GPE or kinetic (kinetic as the water is MOVED so kinetic is right)

1.3. Method A is better because it can store 69.6 x more energy in kJ than method B and it is also better because it can be installed anywhere which means you have more space to instal them and you can pick places which are difficult to reach unlike B which can only be installed in very high-to-reach places. The only advantage of B is that it wastes

1.4 Loads of possibilities here as they left it open: Transport - using public transport / electric cars / taking shorter rather than faster routes / reducing mass of the car and then the corresponding explanation for reducing CO2 Generating electricity - ANY renewable energy here and it is because they do not release any CO2 so limits global warming.



1.6 x less energy compared to A. However, even after energy is wasted, A stores 20160 kJ per 100g of water whereas method B stores 367.5 kJ per 100g so A is much more efficient.

2.1 Nuclei, neutrons, gamma in this order only

2.2 E= Pt

2.3 500 000 000 x 3600 = 1.8 x 1012 J

2.4 Various things could be accepted: build away from populated areas / thick concrete walls in the power plant / bury waste deep underground / any suitable protection for people working there and limiting their exposure to radiation…

2.5 0.92 x 365 = 335.8 days

3.1 A method below would get you 6 marks as it would produce a valid outcome 1. Using crocodile clips measure out 100 cm of the wire and clip (it is ok if you started with a small length and went up, all valid) 2. Close the switch / Turn power pack on 3. Read the values for current from ammeter and p.d. From voltmeter 4. Open the switch / Turn power pack off 5. Repeat steps 1-4 with different lengths of wire (90, 80, 70, 60 cm) to see the effect on voltage and current 6. Repeat steps 1-5 with all lengths at least 3 more times so you can calculate the mean current and mean potential difference for each length 7. Do R = mean V / mean I for each length so you can plot the graph

3.2 Last box

3.3 1.5V is a small potential difference so it does not generate high currents to cause damage to the body

4.1 The negative metal dome transfers the negative electrons to the person and her hair. Each strand of hair is an individual entity and each strand becomes negatively charged so each hair strand will repel another hair strand. The reason why hair moves away from the metal dome is again as it is repelling it as the hair is negative and so is the metal dome.

4.2 An area where a charged object experiences a force

4.3 it decreases

4.4 E = QV 0.6 = 2x10-6 x V V = 0.6 / 2x10-6 V = 300 000 V

4.5 box 3 decreased electrical resistance of the air

5.1 50 Hz and 230 V

5.2 There are two methods here but each is ok: 1st method P = I²R 0.340 = 0.75² x R R = 0.340 / 0.75² R = 0.604

5.3 Dirt will change the conductivity of the coin (decrease it) so the current and resistance detected by the vending machine will not be accurate for the machine to recognise a specific coin (as a specific coin will have a specific resistance)

5.4 thermistor symbol

5.5 Here you needed to work out the resistance at the thermistor at 20 degrees which was 80 ohms Then work out the current in the whole circuit using V = IR so 12 = I x 480 (it is 480 because the total resistance in the circuit is the sum of all resistances which is 400 from the resistor and the 80 you got from the graph) So I = 12 / 480 = 0.025 A and then do V = 0.025 x 80 so V = 2 V

6.1 Elastic

6.2 This is where you have to assume that elastic potential energy = gravitational potential energy So work out the elastic potential energy in ONE cord is using E = 0.5ke2 E = 0.5 x 735 x 82 = 23520 J per cord and as there are TWO cords we have 47 040 J Then put this into the equation E = mgh 47 040 = 240 X 9.8 X h H = 47040 / (240 * 9.8) = 20 m (if you got 10 m you will get 5 out of 6 marks)

6.3 Energy is lost to the surroundings through friction or air resistance

7.1 Random

7.2 Less excess water will be displaced making the experiment more accurate. The string has a volume so by using a thinner string, less excess water will be displaced by it compared to the thick string.

7.3 Measuring cylinder has not got a high enough resolution. Cylinder has a resolution to 0.1 cm3 but you need an instrument which has a resolution of 0.01 cm3 to get the correct value.

7.4 Take the mass you got and subtract it from 0.02 g

7.5 density = mass / volume 21 500 = m / 4.4 x 10-7 m = 21 500 x 4.4 x 10-7 m = 9.46 x 10-3 lg (note: 0.44 cm^ 3 has to be divided by 1003 to get an answer in m3)

8.1 Less space for particles to move in so MORE FREQUENT collisions (MOREcollisions per second) so MOREforce exerted on the wall of the syringe per unit area (or per m2)

8.2 1st box that mean kinetic energy of the particles increases

8.3 In this question you could have EITHER converted the energy from J to kJ OR converted the specific heat capacity from kJ to J … either is fine. 0.0130 = 2.6 x 10-8 x 1010 x temp change Temp change = 0.0130 / (2.6 x 10-8 x 1010) Temp change = 495.1 degrees

9.1 alpha particles have a very short range in air (few cm) before being absorbed by the air. Source A has a count rate which drops to almost 0 when the source is 3 cm away. If any beta or gamma were present, they would be detected if the source was just 3 cm away but count rate was almost 0

9.2 Use a thin sheet of aluminium. If source B emits beta the count rate will drop to almost zero when you put a sheet of thin aluminium between source and detector and if it is emitting gamma the count rate would barely drop or not at all.

9.3 Things like do not stand right in front of the isotope, be as far away as possible to do the demo, have isotopes out only for the shortest possible time

9.4 Wear gloves which you then throw away OR simple do not touch the source with hands but use long tongs.

9.5 You had to draw a tangent at 300 seconds and here there will be a range of answer possible. My gradient when I did change in y / change in x was 7.3 but a range will be ok. The units were Bq.

10.1 brown

10.2 google symbol for fuse

10.3 Q = It 2 = I x 0.4 I = 2/0.4 I = 5 A

10.4 Again here you could have chosen to convert the energy from J to kJ or the specific latent heat from kJ to J, either is fine. 1.02 = m x 60 000 m = 1.02 / 60 000 m = 1.7 x 10-5 kg 10.5 time taken would increase as more energy would be needed to melt the wire as some heat is lost to the surroundings

[kylebicker]

It was 40.

Use Ee equation to get the Ee value

READ THE QUESTION, it says each, so double 8 to get 16

Since Energy is Conserved, Ee = Ep

Then rearrange the GPE equation and Bazinga

[frostfnbr]

3.96x10 to the power of 11 for the 2nd last question combined higher

[Valeriee]

Watching all these slanders make me laugh at aqa 🤭

[galacticprops]

yeah... pretty sure i did a different test on aqa cause there was definitely no year question or bungee jumper guy

[hamzasherasmat]

Edexcel calculations were heaven, they gave us the equations on the paper so we didn't need to search them on the equation sheet and was worth 35 marks (Separate). I guess AQA students got cooked

[NJ-qxvb]

I did edexcel triple higher and that paper was so good. I found most of it pretty easy and I loved the 6 markers.

[hmmmmnothanks]

my physics teacher asked me how it went and i deadass nearly burst into tears it was so bad 😭🙏

[erin]

it was 2 volts! confirmed by physics teacher at school who writes the paper :DD

[summers]

Are we not going to talk about the change in temperature question

[Alex]

The physics as paper was so much worse I still haven’t recovered from that shitshow😓😓😓

[tired-kun]

I'm literally cooked, I no longer wanna exist after the papers 1 Sciences💀💀💀