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Physics · Edexcel 9PH0 · Paper 3: General and Practical Principles in Physics · June 2024

Edexcel A Level Physics Paper 3: General and Practical Principles in Physics June 2024 examiner report (9PH0/03)

2h 30m 120 marks

Examiner report

  1. Q1 - 8 marks - Forces and elasticity, Stress, strain and the Young modulus
  2. Q2 - 15 marks - Density, Errors and uncertainties
  3. Q3 - 6 marks - Electrical power and energy transfers, Kirchhoff's laws, Series and parallel circuits
  4. Q4 - 9 marks - Gravity and weight, Ideal gases and the gas laws, Pressure in fluids
  5. Q5 - 10 marks - Errors and uncertainties, Mass-spring systems and simple pendulums
  6. Q6 - 11 marks - Errors and uncertainties, Properties of waves, Stationary waves
  7. Q7 - 9 marks - Decay constant and exponential decay, Half-life, Nuclear equations, Radioactive decay and nuclear radiation
  8. Q8 - 11 marks - Conservation and dissipation of energy, Elastic and inelastic collisions, Mass-spring systems and simple pendulums, Momentum
  9. Q9 - 8 marks - Astronomical distances, Errors and uncertainties, Resistors and I-V characteristics
  10. Q10 - 6 marks - Forced vibrations, damping and resonance, Mass-spring systems and simple pendulums, Simple harmonic motion
  11. Q11 - 14 marks - Errors and uncertainties, Potential dividers, Resistors and I-V characteristics
  12. Q12 - 13 marks - Specific heat capacity, Specific latent heat, Viscosity and viscous drag