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FP1 DOUBTS HERE!!!!
« on: May 04, 2010, 12:46:35 pm »
Hey, I do Edexcel FP1, please post all your doubts here!
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Re: FP1 DOUBTS HERE!!!!
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2010, 07:15:56 pm »
No posts eh? Not surprising given the exam takes place so late. Do u have any notes about/ or can u explain PROOF BY INDUCTION? Thanx...and what exactly will be required from the matrix chapter...only addition, mulitplication and inverse, ryt? NO transformations?
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Re: FP1 DOUBTS HERE!!!!
« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2010, 09:34:52 pm »
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Re: FP1 DOUBTS HERE!!!!
« Reply #3 on: June 12, 2010, 09:46:17 pm »
FP1 June 05 Q7b
I think that particular topic is now on the FP2 syllabus but anyway...

I got A+B=1 but I dunno what to do with dx/dt = -1  :(
Help please
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Re: FP1 DOUBTS HERE!!!!
« Reply #4 on: June 12, 2010, 10:10:09 pm »
Quote from: Hwa1 on June 12, 2010, 09:46:17 pm
FP1 June 05 Q7b
I think that particular topic is now on the FP2 syllabus but anyway...

I got A+B=1 but I dunno what to do with dx/dt = -1  :(
Help please

Well, yeah I mean anything behind 2009 is supposed to be obsolete.
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Re: FP1 DOUBTS HERE!!!!
« Reply #5 on: June 12, 2010, 10:36:07 pm »
its in the ms
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Re: FP1 DOUBTS HERE!!!!
« Reply #6 on: June 12, 2010, 11:07:19 pm »
Just stupidity on my part, worked it out and it was pretty easy...I looked at the ms before but didn't get what it was doing, all is well now though :)
Just for part C, it's clear that you have to differentiate because it asked for a minimum value :P But I don't see why you'd actually do it in the first place =/  (What's the theory behind it?)
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Re: FP1 DOUBTS HERE!!!!
« Reply #7 on: June 12, 2010, 11:10:30 pm »
as soon as you find x(t) differentiate to find a minimum in the usual way
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Re: FP1 DOUBTS HERE!!!!
« Reply #8 on: June 13, 2010, 10:36:59 am »
I understand what to do but I don't know why.
Doesnt differentiating have stuff to do with gradients and things rather than distances?
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Re: FP1 DOUBTS HERE!!!!
« Reply #9 on: June 13, 2010, 11:43:04 am »
Differentiate whenever you want to find a max or min
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FP1 DOUBTS HERE!
« Reply #10 on: June 18, 2010, 11:45:43 am »
IF ANYONE HAS FP1 DOUBTS, please post them here, and I will do my best to answer them.
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« Reply #11 on: June 18, 2010, 03:04:24 pm »
It's good to bring the river to those feeling thirsty. Nice initiative.
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Re: FP1 DOUBTS HERE!
« Reply #12 on: June 18, 2010, 07:20:38 pm »
Quote from: ~Alpha on June 18, 2010, 03:04:24 pm
It's good to bring the river to those feeling thirsty. Nice initiative.

I bring no river, but a stream.
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« Reply #13 on: June 19, 2010, 11:11:07 am »
Quote from: Engraved on June 18, 2010, 07:20:38 pm
I bring no river, but a stream.

It's good to bring water to those who are thirsty*.  :P
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Re: FP1 DOUBTS HERE!
« Reply #14 on: June 20, 2010, 03:57:45 pm »
Theres a specimen paper I need the markscheme for but I can't seem to find it ANYWHERE :(
I dunno how to explain which one it is...It says 2003 at the bottom and here are some slight descriptions of the questions.
Its for FP1 by the way (but most questions are FP2)

1.sigma notation Q
2. has a lnx in it and part b is newton raphson procedure
3. inequalities Q
4. roots of a cubic equation. find P
5. about a bank

I'd really appreciate it if anybody could find the markscheme, thanks :)
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