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Physics · Edexcel 9PH0 · Paper 3: General and Practical Principles in Physics · October 2020

Edexcel A Level Physics Paper 3: General and Practical Principles in Physics October 2020 examiner report (9PH0/03)

2h 30m 120 marks

Examiner report

  1. Q1 - 4 marks - Errors and uncertainties
  2. Q2 - 8 marks - Errors and uncertainties
  3. Q3 - 7 marks - Errors and uncertainties, Mass-spring systems and simple pendulums
  4. Q4 - 6 marks - Decay constant and exponential decay, Half-life, Mass defect and binding energy, Radioactive decay and nuclear radiation
  5. Q5 - 8 marks - Electrical power and energy transfers, Resistivity
  6. Q6 - 11 marks - Electrical power and energy transfers, Specific latent heat
  7. Q7 - 12 marks - Charged particles in magnetic fields, Circular motion, Electric fields and field strength, Kinetic, elastic and gravitational potential energy
  8. Q8 - 14 marks - Errors and uncertainties
  9. Q9 - 16 marks - Errors and uncertainties, Forced vibrations, damping and resonance, Properties of waves, Stationary waves, The motor effect
  10. Q10 - 16 marks - Density, Errors and uncertainties
  11. Q11 - 18 marks - Astronomical distances, Efficiency, Orbits of planets and satellites, Properties of waves, Stefan's law and Wien's displacement law