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Thursday, July 23, 2009

SPM Paper 3: Graph Plotting

Hi guys...hows your revision?
.. trial exam's fever is around the corner..its temperature is approaching the boiling point now :)
Hope u are doing well with your revision..
Here i wanna share some short tips about plotting graph in paper3 .

When u are being asked to plot a graph for section A paper 3, please make sure u include the following item:

(i)Title of graph
-Usually we start the title by mentioning the "quantity in Y-axis VS quantity of x-axis"
-Example:
Title of graph: Graph of V versus I
V represents Y -axis, I represents X-axis

(ii) Labels of x-axis and y-axis and units
-Make sure u include the labels & their units for each axis. Usually,
x-axis represents the manipulated variables
y-axis represents the responding variables

(iii) The vertical and horizontal scales must be even.
-Please choose the right scale based on the data given. Your scale should produce a larger graph
-Choosing right scale is important in order to let u to plot the points easily

(iv) Size of the graph is about ¾ of the graph paper.
-Make sure your chosen scale will produce a larger graph which occupies about 3/4 of the paper
-If your graph's size is less than 1/2 of the page..u better redo the graph ;)

(v) Dont forget to write values for the origin of the graph
Most graph starts with zero but there's case that some graph starts with a nonzero.

(vi) Use small cross mark (x) to plot the coordinates of the point in the graph
Make sure u plot the right point according to the data collected in the table.

Gradient calculation tips
In section B, they always ask u to calculate the gradients. While doing it make sure
-The chosen point should at least have a distance equivalent to 1/2 of the length of the graph
-please draw the triangle between the chosen point
For curvy graph, u need to draw the tangent line to find the gradient.

I think that's it for now, may it be useful to those who is weak in paper3.

(ps: For those who wants to copy this tips to your blog, make sure u include my link as well :)

6 comments:

  1. hai...i wanna ask u tat how to draw a velocity-height graph?
    tomorrow trial~~johor

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  2. hmm..its hard to draw it here, but ifa ball falls frm higher height..its veocity increases,& the height decreases.In othr words the velocityincrease as the height decrease.

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  3. I got a question here!
    our chemistry F5 chapter one, a experiment to study the concentration of Na2S2O3 and the rate of reaction, may I know the graph : concentration of Na2S2O3 against time, the time should be X-axis or Y-axis? Time is the responding variables! I heard my tuition teacher said, those book are wrong! it should be time against concentration, which is mean, time should be Y-axis, concentration should be X-axis! Help!

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  4. supposed tis is a physics blog, not chemistry..sorry i couldnt answer that

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  5. Is it okay to draw the graph horizontally?

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  6. it possible in P2, but dpends on topic..but through my experience u hardly find this kind of graph in Paper 3..

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