plumiConstant acceleration in a straight line: Edexcel A‑Level Maths questions
Edexcel A-Level Maths past-paper questions on 7.2 Constant acceleration in a straight line, 2010–2025, with mark schemes and examiner’s reports where available. Add MadAsMaths questions to your practice, or browse them separately by topic and difficulty.
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All 12 questions on Constant acceleration in a straight line, as a list
- June 2025, Mechanics, Q1 (4 marks): A car moves in a straight line along a horizontal road with constant acceleration 2 m s –2 The car is moving with speed 15 m s –1 in the direction of the accele
- June 2025, Mechanics, Q2 (10 marks): 5 N α B (2 kg) Figure 2 A small box B of mass 2 kg is dragged in a straight line, along a rough horizontal plane, at a constant speed by a force of magnitude 5
- June 2025, AS Mechanics, Q3 (11 marks): A package P of mass 2 kg is held at rest on a horizontal table. One end of a thin rope is attached to P. The rope passes over a pulley that is fixed at the edge
- June 2024, AS Mechanics, Q4 (12 marks): Figure 2 Figure 2 shows a car towing a trailer along a straight horizontal road. The mass of the car is 800 kg and the mass of the trailer is 600 kg. The traile
- June 2023, Mechanics, Q1 (3 marks): A car is initially at rest on a straight horizontal road. The car then accelerates along the road with a constant acceleration of 3.2 m s –2 Find (a) the speed
- June 2023, AS Mechanics, Q2 (7 marks): A small stone is projected vertically upwards with speed 39.2 m s –1 from a point O. The stone is modelled as a particle moving freely under gravity from when i
- June 2022, AS Mechanics, Q1 (7 marks): The point A is 1.8 m vertically above horizontal ground. At time t = 0, a small stone is projected vertically upwards with speed U m s−1 from the point A. At ti
- November 2021, AS Mechanics, Q1 (7 marks): At time t = 0, a small stone is thrown vertically upwards with speed 14.7 m s−1 from a point A. At time t = T seconds, the stone passes through A, moving downwa
- November 2021, AS Mechanics, Q3 (13 marks): P(2m) h 2h Q(5m) Figure 1 A ball P of mass 2m is attached to one end of a string. The other end of the string is attached to a ball Q of mass 5m. The string pas
- November 2020, AS Mechanics, Q1 (12 marks): At time t = 0, a small ball is projected vertically upwards with speed U m s–1 from a point A that is 16.8 m above horizontal ground. The speed of the ball at t
- June 2019, AS Mechanics, Q1 (10 marks): At time t = 0, a parachutist falls vertically from rest from a helicopter which is hovering at a height of 550 m above horizontal ground. The parachutist, who i
- June 2019, AS Mechanics, Q2 (12 marks): P (0.8 kg) Q (0.6 kg) 0.4 m 1.5 m Figure 1 A small ball, P, of mass 0.8 kg, is held at rest on a smooth horizontal table and is attached to one end of a thin ro
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