Variable acceleration in a straight line: WJEC A‑Level Maths questions
WJEC A-Level Maths past-paper questions on 7.3 Variable acceleration in a straight line, 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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- Summer 2025, Unit 4, Q7 (8 marks): A particle of mass 1.2 kg is moving in a straight line under the action of a variable force F N, 7. where 30 F . 2 t 2 The speed of the particle at time
- Summer 2025, AS Unit 2, Q9 (4 marks): 9. A small toy car, which may be modelled as a particle, is moving along a straight horizontal track as shown below. Two points A and B are positioned along the
- Summer 2024, AS Unit 2, Q8 (7 marks): 8. A particle, of mass 4 kg, moves in a straight line under the action of a single force F N, whose magnitude at time t seconds is given by F 12 t 32 for t
- Summer 2023, Unit 4, Q10 (8 marks): A train is moving along a straight horizontal track. At time t seconds, its velocity is 1 0 v ms–1, its acceleration is a ms–2, and a is inversely proportional
- Summer 2023, AS Unit 2, Q8 (5 marks): 8 A particle P moves in a straight line such that its displacement, s metres, at time t seconds, relative to a fixed point is given by s = 4t2 – t3 for t x 0. F
- Summer 2022, AS Unit 2, Q11 (9 marks): 1 A particle P moves along the x-axis so that its velocity v ms–1 at time t seconds (t x 0) is given by v = 3t2 − 24t + 36. a) Find the values of t when P is in
- Summer 2019, AS Unit 2, Q9 (6 marks): 9 A particle moves in a straight line so that its acceleration a ms–2 at time t seconds is given by 2t − 8 for 0 X t X 5, ⎧ a = ⎨ 2 for t 1 5. ⎩ At time t = 0,
- Summer 2018, AS Unit 2, Q7 (3 marks): A particle moves along the horizontal x-axis so that its velocity v ms–1 at time t seconds 0 7 is given by v = 6t2 – 8t – 5. At time t = 1, the particle’s displ
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