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This document provides information about AQA AS Physics exam practice answers. It includes the base and derived units used in physics, calculations of resistivity and percentage uncertainty, and determining the gradient and accuracy from a graph of force against extension.

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1 Measurements and Their Errors: AQA AS Physics Exam Practice Answers

This document provides information about AQA AS Physics exam practice answers. It includes the base and derived units used in physics, calculations of resistivity and percentage uncertainty, and determining the gradient and accuracy from a graph of force against extension.

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AQA AS Physics exam practice answers

1 Measurements and their errors


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Base unit Base unit Derived unit Derived unit Derived unit Derived unit
Metre Second Velocity
Ampere Second Charge (A s)
Second Velocity (m s−1) Acceleration
Kilogram Acceleration (m s−2) Force
Metre Force (kg m s−2) Work (kg m2 s−2)
Work Charge (A s) Potential
difference
(volt) (kg m2
A−1 s−3)
Potential Current (A) Resistance
difference () (kg m2
A−2 s−3)
2 D
3 resistivity = RA/L = 0.5 × × (0.15 × 10−3)2/0.6
= 1.88 × 2.25 × 10−8/0.6 = 5.89 × 10−8 m
% accuracy in resistivity = ΔR + (2 × Δd) + ΔL
= 5% + (2 × 2%) + 8% = ±17% = ±1.0 × 10−8 m
So:
resistivity = 5.89 × 10−8 m ±1.0 × 10−8 m
4 B
5 (a) 5.5 cm
(b) percentage uncertainty in the length at F = 3.0 N = ±(2/35.2) × 100 = 5.7%
(c) gradient of the line = (4.35 − 1.76)/(0.5 − 0.2) = 8.6 N m−1
(d) maximum gradient = (4.55 − 1.8)/(0.5 − 0.2) = 9.2 N m−1
minimum gradient = (4.2 − 1.75)/(0.5 − 0.2) = 8.2 N m−1
percentage accuracy = (9.2 − 8.2/8.6) × 100 = 11.6%

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