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6 thoughts on “Oxford PAT 2016, Question 16”

1. izzy says:
November 1, 2017 at 12:04 pm
Hi there! May i suggest an adjustment be made?
on the last part of the answer, you can separate the denominator into two variables which are (1-
k^(1/2)) and (1+k^(1/2)).
by doing this, you can cancel off the numerator. doesnt do much but it shows a clearer answer.
well at least for me it does

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1. Oxford PAT says:
November 1, 2017 at 7:44 pm
Hi Izzy. Yes that’s very nice, thanks a lot for that.

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2. George says:
October 15, 2017 at 3:59 pm
Sorry for bothering u again.

Do you think it is okay to express the position in term of Q1 and Q2 rather than k?

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1. Oxford PAT says:
October 15, 2017 at 5:50 pm
No worries, it’s a pleasure to answer your questions.

Yes, it would be absolutely fine to express the position in terms of e.g. the value Q1/Q2. In fact
that’s just what k represents (well, 1/k actually, but …).

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3. maryamsajjad says:
August 14, 2017 at 5:21 am
Why do you take kQ1=Q2 in the second part of the question?

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1. Oxford PAT says:
August 14, 2017 at 7:11 pm
That’s a good question, that isn’t easy to answer. Basically I did this because it meant that the
Q1 and Q2 values could be cancelled out of the equation in line 2, to give us an equation
relating r to the ratio k (which I have defined to be Q1/Q2). Just makes the algebra a bit
simpler.

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