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WJEC A-Level Maths past-paper questions on 8.3 Resolving forces and inclined planes, 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 9 questions on Resolving forces and inclined planes, as a list
- Summer 2025, Unit 4, Q5 (7 marks): 5. The diagram below shows a set of traffic lights suspended in equilibrium by means of two cables AC and BC, inclined at angles of 60° and 45° to the vertical
- 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
- Summer 2024, Unit 4, Q5 (7 marks): The diagram below shows four coplanar horizontal forces of magnitude F N, 12 N, 16 N and 5. 20 N acting at a point P in the directions shown. F N 20 N α P 12 N
- 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
- 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
- Summer 2022, Unit 4, Q6 (5 marks): 6 The diagram shows a hanging basket attached at a point A to two light rods AB and AC. The rod AC is horizontal and the rod AB is inclined at an angle α to the
- 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
- Summer 2019, Unit 4, Q7 (6 marks): 7 Three coplanar horizontal forces of magnitude 21 N, 11 N and 8 N act on a particle P in the directions shown in the diagram. 21 N 8 N P α 11 N tanα= 3 a) Give
- 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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