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Friction: WJEC A‑Level Maths questions

WJEC A-Level Maths past-paper questions on 8.4 Friction, 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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  1. Q8

    Summer 2025 · Unit 4

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    Summer 2024 · Unit 4

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  3. Q9

    Summer 2023 · Unit 4

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  4. Q8

    Summer 2022 · Unit 4

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    Summer 2018 · Unit 4

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All 5 questions on Friction, as a list
  1. Summer 2025, Unit 4, Q8 (7 marks): 8. An object, of mass 5 kg, is projected up the line of greatest slope of a rough plane inclined at an angle of 30° to the horizontal. Given that the decelerati
  2. Summer 2024, Unit 4, Q9 (11 marks): 9. The diagram below shows a parcel, of mass m kg, sliding down a rough slope inclined at an 7 angle α to the horizontal, where sin   . 25 α The coefficient o
  3. Summer 2023, Unit 4, Q9 (7 marks): 9 The diagram below shows a wooden crate of mass 35 kg being pushed on a rough horizontal floor, by a force of magnitude 380 N inclined at an angle of 30° below
  4. Summer 2022, Unit 4, Q8 (8 marks): 8 α The diagram shows a ramp being used to load a washing machine of mass 90 kg into a truck. The washing machine may be modelled as a particle and the ramp as
  5. Summer 2018, Unit 4, Q8 (9 marks): 8 An object of mass 60 kg is on a rough plane inclined at an angle of 20° to the horizontal. The coefficient of friction between the object and the plane is 0.3

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