plumiProjectiles: OCR MEI A‑Level Maths questions
OCR MEI A-Level Maths past-paper questions on 7.5 Projectiles, 2018–2025, 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 8 questions on Projectiles, as a list
- June 2025, Paper 1, Q12 (8 marks): In this question x and y are the horizontal and upwards vertical directions respectively. An astronaut is standing on the surface of the moon exploring the moti
- June 2024, Paper 1, Q14 (7 marks): A man runs at a constant speed of 4 m s–1 along a straight horizontal road. A woman is standing on a bridge that spans the road. At the instant that the man pas
- June 2023, Paper 1, Q15 (8 marks): A projectile is launched from a point on level ground with an initial velocity u at an angle i above the horizontal. 2 2 u sin cos i i . (a) Show that the range
- June 2022, Paper 1, Q7 (6 marks): In this question the x- and y-directions are horizontal and vertically upwards respectively and the origin is on horizontal ground. c m 14 1 A ball is thrown fr
- November 2021, Paper 1, Q10 (11 marks): - . 10 A ball is thrown upwards with a velocity of 29.4 m s 1 (a) Show that the ball reaches its maximum height after 3 s. [1] (b) Sketch a velocity-time graph
- November 2020, Paper 1, Q13 (11 marks): - at an angle of i° above the horizontal. 13 A projectile is fired from ground level at 35 m s 1 (a) State a modelling assumption that is used in the standard p
- June 2019, Paper 1, Q9 (7 marks): A cannonball is fired from a point on horizontal ground at 100ms 1 9 - at an angle of 25° above the horizontal. Ignoring air resistance, calculate (a) the great
- June 2018, Paper 1, Q9 (10 marks): A pebble is thrown horizontally at 14 m s–1 from a window which is 5 m above horizontal ground. The 9 pebble goes over a fence 2 m high d m away from the window
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