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Mathematics B (MEI) H640
Checked against OCR’s own H640 specification, version 3 (October 2025), on 21 August 2026. That copy was taken from the board itself on the day of the check rather than from a landing page. The H640 document remains the controlling text. The reference codes below are OCR’s; the short labels beside them are InkMaths summaries rather than OCR’s statement text. The section codes grouping them are ours rather than the board’s, because this qualification numbers its outcomes and not its content areas. Each row links to the relevant lessons and records full, partial or missing coverage.
This page is the content. For the examination itself, what each paper is worth and where OCR publishes them: OCR H640 past papers.
A-level Mathematics content is prescribed nationally. Use the table to check how each statement in this qualification maps to InkMaths; rows marked partial or not covered identify gaps.
PM-PROOF Proof · PM-ALG Algebra · PM-FUNC Functions · PM-GRAPH Graphs · PM-COORD Coordinate geometry · PM-SEQ Sequences and series · PM-TRIG Trigonometry · PM-EXPLOG Exponentials and logarithms · PM-CALC Calculus · PM-NUM Numerical methods · PM-VEC Vectors · ST-SAMP Sampling · ST-DATA Data presentation and interpretation · ST-PROB Probability · ST-DIST Probability distributions · ST-HYP Statistical hypothesis testing · ME-MODEL Models and quantities · ME-KIN1 Kinematics in 1 dimension · ME-KIN2 Kinematics in 2 dimensions · ME-PROJ Projectiles · ME-FORCE Forces · ME-NEWTON Newton's laws of motion · ME-RIGID Rigid bodies
PM-PROOF Proof
3 of 3 covered in full.
| Ref | Specification statement | Taught in | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mp1 | Structure of proof, deduction and exhaustion | The structure of proof: deduction and exhaustion | Covered |
| Mp2 | Disproof by counter example | Disproof and proof by contradiction, Indices and surds, The general binomial expansion | Covered |
| Mp3 | Proof by contradiction | Disproof and proof by contradiction | Covered |
PM-ALG Algebra
18 of 18 covered in full.
PM-FUNC Functions
8 of 8 covered in full.
| Ref | Specification statement | Taught in | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mf1 | Arithmetic of polynomials | Polynomials and the factor theorem | Covered |
| Mf2 | The factor theorem | Polynomials and the factor theorem | Covered |
| Mf3 | The definition of a function and its language | Functions, inverses and the modulus | Covered |
| Mf4 | Composite functions | Functions, inverses and the modulus | Covered |
| Mf5 | Inverse functions and their graphs | Functions, inverses and the modulus, Logarithms and their laws, Reciprocal and inverse trigonometric functions | Covered |
| Mf6 | The modulus function | Functions, inverses and the modulus | Covered |
| Mf7 | Inequalities with a modulus sign | Functions, inverses and the modulus | Covered |
| Mf8 | Functions in modelling | Functions in modelling, Log graphs and exponential models, Trigonometric modelling | Covered |
PM-GRAPH Graphs
9 of 9 covered in full.
PM-COORD Coordinate geometry
16 of 17 covered in full, 1 with the gap named.
| Ref | Specification statement | Taught in | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| AKg1 | The equation y = mx + c | Straight lines | Covered |
| Mg1 | Gradients of parallel and perpendicular lines | Straight lines | Covered |
| Mg2 | Distance between two points | Straight lines, Circles, Vectors in two dimensions | Covered |
| Mg3 | Midpoint of a line segment | Straight lines, Vectors in two dimensions | Covered |
| Mg4 | Forming the equation of a straight line | Straight lines | Covered |
| Mg5 | Drawing a line from its equation | Straight lines | Covered |
| Mg6 | Intersection of two lines | Straight lines, Simultaneous equations and inequalities | Covered |
| Mg7 | Straight line models | Straight lines, Functions in modelling, Correlation and regression | Covered |
| Mg8 | Intersections of lines and curves | Simultaneous equations and inequalities, Quadratic functions | Covered |
| Mg9 | Intersection of a line and a circle | Circles | Covered |
| Mg10 | The equation of a circle | Circles | Covered |
| Mg11 | Circle properties | Circles | Covered |
| Mg12 | Parameter and parametric equations | Parametric equations | Covered |
| Mg13 | Converting between cartesian and parametric forms | Parametric equations | Covered |
| Mg14 | A circle in parametric form | Parametric equations, Circles | Covered except: Only the circle centred on the origin is parametrised. No lesson writes down the parametric form of a circle with its centre somewhere else, or turns such a parametric pair back into the centre-radius equation, so a candidate meeting a translated circle in parametric form has to invent the translation. |
| Mg15 | Gradient of a parametrically defined curve | Implicit and parametric differentiation | Covered |
| Mg16 | Parametric equations in modelling | Parametric equations, Projectiles | Covered |
PM-SEQ Sequences and series
17 of 17 covered in full.
| Ref | Specification statement | Taught in | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ms1 | Binomial expansion for positive integer n | The binomial expansion | Covered |
| Ms2 | Factorial and combination notation | The binomial expansion, The binomial distribution, Combinatorics | Covered |
| Ms3 | Binomial expansion for rational n | The general binomial expansion | Covered |
| Ms4 | Expanding a general two-term bracket | The general binomial expansion | Covered |
| Ms5 | Polynomial approximations from the expansion | The general binomial expansion | Covered |
| Ms6 | Sequences, finite and infinite | Sequences and sigma notation | Covered |
| Ms7 | Sequences from a formula or a recurrence | Sequences and sigma notation | Covered |
| Ms8 | A series as a sum of terms | Sequences and sigma notation, Arithmetic series, Geometric series | Covered |
| Ms9 | Sigma notation | Sequences and sigma notation, Arithmetic series | Covered |
| Ms10 | Increasing, decreasing and periodic sequences | Sequences and sigma notation | Covered |
| Ms11 | Convergent and divergent sequences | Sequences and sigma notation, Geometric series, Locating roots and iteration | Covered |
| Ms12 | Arithmetic sequences and series | Arithmetic series | Covered |
| Ms13 | Standard arithmetic formulae | Arithmetic series | Covered |
| Ms14 | Geometric sequences and series | Geometric series | Covered |
| Ms15 | Standard geometric formulae | Geometric series, Logarithms and their laws | Covered |
| Ms16 | Convergence and the sum to infinity | Geometric series | Covered |
| Ms17 | Sequences and series in modelling | Arithmetic series, Geometric series, Log graphs and exponential models | Covered |
PM-TRIG Trigonometry
22 of 23 covered in full, 1 with the gap named.
PM-EXPLOG Exponentials and logarithms
11 of 11 covered in full.
| Ref | Specification statement | Taught in | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| ME1 | The function a to the x and its graph | Exponential functions and e | Covered |
| ME2 | Index and logarithmic form | Logarithms and their laws | Covered |
| ME3 | The logarithm as an inverse function | Logarithms and their laws, Functions, inverses and the modulus | Covered |
| ME4 | The laws of logarithms | Logarithms and their laws | Covered |
| ME5 | Logarithms of the base and of one | Logarithms and their laws | Covered |
| ME6 | Solving an exponential equation | Logarithms and their laws | Covered |
| ME7 | Reducing to linear form and estimating parameters | Log graphs and exponential models, Correlation and regression | Covered |
| ME8 | The exponential function and its graph | Exponential functions and e | Covered |
| ME9 | The gradient of the exponential and why it models | Exponential functions and e, Differentiating trig, exponentials and logs, Solving differential equations | Covered |
| ME10 | The natural logarithm | Logarithms and their laws, Solving differential equations | Covered |
| ME11 | Exponential growth and decay in modelling | Log graphs and exponential models, Exponential functions and e, Functions in modelling, Solving differential equations | Covered |
PM-CALC Calculus
31 of 33 covered in full, 2 with the gap named.
| Ref | Specification statement | Taught in | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mc1 | Gradient of a curve as gradient of the tangent | The derivative from first principles | Covered |
| Mc2 | The tangent gradient as a limit of chords | The derivative from first principles | Covered |
| Mc3 | The derivative as a function and as a rate of change | The derivative from first principles, Rates of change and building differential equations | Covered |
| Mc4 | Sketching the gradient function | The derivative from first principles | Covered |
| Mc5 | Differentiating powers of x | Differentiating powers of x, The derivative from first principles | Covered |
| Mc6 | The second derivative as the rate of change of gradient | The derivative from first principles, Tangents, turning points and curve behaviour | Covered |
| Mc7 | Stationary points, maxima and minima | Tangents, turning points and curve behaviour | Covered |
| Mc8 | Increasing and decreasing functions | Tangents, turning points and curve behaviour | Covered |
| Mc9 | Tangents and normals | Tangents, turning points and curve behaviour | Covered |
| Mc10 | Differentiating exponentials and the logarithm | Differentiating trig, exponentials and logs, The product, quotient and chain rules | Covered |
| Mc11 | Differentiating trigonometric functions | Differentiating trig, exponentials and logs | Covered |
| Mc12 | The product rule | The product, quotient and chain rules | Covered |
| Mc13 | The quotient rule | The product, quotient and chain rules | Covered |
| Mc14 | The chain rule | The product, quotient and chain rules | Covered |
| Mc15 | Connected rates of change and inverse functions | The product, quotient and chain rules, Rates of change and building differential equations, Implicit and parametric differentiation | Covered |
| Mc16 | Implicit differentiation | Implicit and parametric differentiation | Covered |
| Mc17 | Concave upwards and concave downwards sections | Tangents, turning points and curve behaviour, The trapezium rule | Covered except: The two names MEI's papers use are never printed. The lessons call a section with increasing gradient convex and a section with decreasing gradient concave, so a candidate who meets concave upwards in a question has been taught a word that reads as its opposite. This is not a synonym a reader can be left to work out, because the two vocabularies disagree about which section the bare word concave names. |
| Mc18 | Points of inflection | Tangents, turning points and curve behaviour, The derivative from first principles | Covered |
| Mc19 | Integration as the reverse of differentiation | Integration as antidifferentiation, Definite integrals and areas | Covered |
| Mc20 | Integrating powers of x | Integration as antidifferentiation | Covered |
| Mc21 | Finding a constant of integration | Integration as antidifferentiation, Solving differential equations | Covered |
| Mc22 | Indefinite and definite integrals | Definite integrals and areas, Integration as antidifferentiation | Covered |
| Mc23 | Area between a graph and the x-axis | Definite integrals and areas, Areas, parametric curves and the limit of a sum | Covered |
| Mc24 | Integrating standard functions | Integrating standard functions, Integrating rational functions | Covered |
| Mc25 | Integration as the limit of a sum | Areas, parametric curves and the limit of a sum | Covered |
| Mc26 | Area between two curves | Areas, parametric curves and the limit of a sum, Definite integrals and areas, Volumes of revolution | Covered except: The second half of MEI's note is not taught at A level. No lesson finds the area between a curve and the y-axis by integrating with respect to y: the integral in the other variable appears only in the Further Mathematics volume-of-revolution lesson, and there it produces a volume rather than an area, so the reader is never shown a horizontal strip or the rewriting of the boundary as x in terms of y for an area question. |
| Mc27 | Substitution reversing the chain rule | Integration by substitution and by parts | Covered |
| Mc28 | Substitution in other cases | Integration by substitution and by parts | Covered |
| Mc29 | Integration by parts | Integration by substitution and by parts | Covered |
| Mc30 | Integrating with partial fractions | Integrating rational functions, Partial fractions | Covered |
| Mc31 | Formulating first order differential equations | Rates of change and building differential equations | Covered |
| Mc32 | Solving by separating variables | Solving differential equations | Covered |
| Mc33 | Interpreting the solution of a differential equation | Solving differential equations, Modelling with differential equations | Covered |
PM-NUM Numerical methods (A-level only)
8 of 8 covered in full.
| Ref | Specification statement | Taught in | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Me1 | Locating roots by change of sign | Locating roots and iteration | Covered |
| Me2 | Failure of change of sign methods | Locating roots and iteration | Covered |
| Me3 | Fixed point iteration with staircase and cobweb diagrams | Locating roots and iteration | Covered |
| Me4 | The Newton-Raphson method | The Newton-Raphson method, Locating roots and iteration | Covered |
| Me5 | Failure of iterative methods | Locating roots and iteration, The Newton-Raphson method | Covered |
| Mc34 | The trapezium rule and the direction of its error | The trapezium rule | Covered |
| Mc35 | Bounding an area with rectangles | The trapezium rule, Areas, parametric curves and the limit of a sum | Covered |
| Me6 | Numerical methods in context | Locating roots and iteration, The Newton-Raphson method, The trapezium rule | Covered |
PM-VEC Vectors
7 of 7 covered in full.
| Ref | Specification statement | Taught in | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mv1 | The language of vectors in two dimensions | Vectors in two dimensions | Covered |
| Mv2 | Adding, subtracting and scaling vectors | Vectors in two dimensions | Covered |
| Mv3 | Magnitude, direction and conversion between forms | Vectors in two dimensions | Covered |
| Mv4 | Position vectors | Vectors in two dimensions, Vectors in three dimensions | Covered |
| Mv5 | Distance between two points from position vectors | Vectors in two dimensions, Vectors in three dimensions | Covered |
| Mv6 | Vectors in pure problems and with forces | Vectors in two dimensions, Forces and Newton's laws, Statics of a particle, Kinematics with variable acceleration | Covered |
| Mv7 | The language of vectors in three dimensions | Vectors in three dimensions, Vectors in two dimensions | Covered |
ST-SAMP Sampling
4 of 5 covered in full, 1 with the gap named.
| Ref | Specification statement | Taught in | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mp21 | Population and sample | Sampling and the large data set | Covered |
| Mp22 | Informal inferences from a sample | Sampling and the large data set, Hypothesis testing with the binomial | Covered |
| Mp23 | Random sampling | Sampling and the large data set | Covered |
| Mp24 | A variety of sampling techniques | Sampling and the large data set | Covered except: Two of the seven techniques MEI lists are missing. Cluster sampling, where whole groups are drawn and everyone inside a chosen group is measured, is not described anywhere, and self-selected samples are not named as a category even though the bias they carry is discussed under other headings. A question naming either would find no answer in the library. |
| Mp25 | Selecting and evaluating sampling techniques | Sampling and the large data set | Covered |
ST-DATA Data presentation and interpretation
9 of 14 covered in full, 5 with the gap named.
| Ref | Specification statement | Taught in | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| MD1 | Types of data and standard single-variable diagrams | Representing and interpreting data, Measures of location and spread, Correlation coefficients: product moment and Spearman | Covered except: Three items on MEI's own list are not taught. The pie chart is never drawn or read; the frequency chart, which MEI defines in its Notation cell as an equal-width histogram whose vertical axis carries frequency rather than density, is never named or distinguished from the histogram it resembles; and ranked data is not introduced as a data type at A level, appearing only where Further Statistics ranks values for a rank correlation coefficient. |
| MD2 | Area in a histogram and estimated probabilities | Representing and interpreting data, The normal distribution | Covered |
| MD3 | Cumulative frequency diagrams | Representing and interpreting data | Covered |
| MD4 | Describing frequency distributions | Representing and interpreting data | Covered |
| MD5 | Sample diagrams and theoretical distributions | Sampling and the large data set, The normal distribution, The Central Limit Theorem | Covered except: The positive claim this row makes is never stated. No lesson says that the diagram of an unbiased sample comes to resemble the underlying probability distribution as the sample grows, and none shows the same experiment drawn at two sample sizes so that the convergence can be seen. The nearest thing in the library is about the distribution of the sample mean rather than about the shape of the sample itself. |
| MD6 | Scatter diagrams, regression lines and extrapolation | Correlation and regression | Covered |
| MD7 | Distinct sections and outliers in a scatter diagram | Correlation and regression, Representing and interpreting data | Covered |
| MD8 | Correlation and causation | Correlation and regression | Covered |
| MD9 | Selecting and critiquing data presentation | Representing and interpreting data, Correlation and regression | Covered except: Time series are not covered. MEI adds graphs for time series to this row, and no lesson plots a quantity against time as a series or discusses what such a plot shows that a distribution diagram cannot, so a candidate asked to choose or criticise a display for data collected over time has nothing to draw on. |
| MD10 | Measures of central tendency | Measures of location and spread, Representing and interpreting data | Covered except: Two items in MEI's note are absent. The midrange is not defined anywhere, and the weighted mean is not taught at all, so the example the board gives, combining group means using population sizes as weights, is a calculation no lesson performs. |
| MD11 | Simple measures of spread | Measures of location and spread, Representing and interpreting data | Covered |
| MD12 | Variance and standard deviation | Measures of location and spread, Estimators, standard error and confidence intervals | Covered except: The divisor MEI fixes for this qualification is not the one the A-level lessons use. MEI defines sample variance and sample standard deviation with the n-minus-one divisor, cites the British and international standards for it, and says the usage will be consistent throughout the specification; the statistics lesson computes the spread with divisor n and calls that the standard deviation, and the n-minus-one version appears only in a Further Statistics lesson about estimating a population parameter. Separately, no lesson shows a reader how to get a mean and standard deviation out of a calculator's statistical functions, which this row asks for by name and which MEI's own note about differing manufacturer notation makes a real task. |
| MD13 | Identifying outliers | Representing and interpreting data | Covered |
| MD14 | Cleaning data | Representing and interpreting data, Sampling and the large data set | Covered |
ST-PROB Probability
10 of 11 covered in full, 1 with the gap named.
| Ref | Specification statement | Taught in | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| AKu1 | Probability of an event | Probability and Venn diagrams, Conditional probability | Covered |
| AKu2 | Complementary events | Probability and Venn diagrams, The binomial distribution | Covered |
| AKu3 | Expected frequency of an event | Probability and Venn diagrams, The binomial distribution, Goodness-of-fit tests | Covered except: Expected frequency is not taught at A level. No lesson multiplies a number of trials by a probability to say how many occurrences to expect, and the product MEI prints in its Notation cell is never written down under that name; the only place a count times a probability appears is as the expected class counts of a chi-squared test in Further Statistics, which is a different question in a different context. |
| AKu4 | Diagrams to assist probability calculations | Probability and Venn diagrams, Conditional probability | Covered |
| Mu1 | Mutually exclusive and independent events | Probability and Venn diagrams | Covered |
| Mu2 | Adding probabilities for exclusive events | Probability and Venn diagrams | Covered |
| Mu3 | Multiplying probabilities for independent events | Probability and Venn diagrams, The binomial distribution, Conditional probability | Covered |
| Mu4 | Notation and definitions for exclusive and independent events | Probability and Venn diagrams, Conditional probability | Covered |
| Mu5 | Venn diagrams and the addition rule | Probability and Venn diagrams | Covered |
| Mu6 | Conditional probability | Conditional probability | Covered |
| Mu7 | Conditional probability and independence | Conditional probability, Probability and Venn diagrams | Covered |
ST-DIST Probability distributions
11 of 13 covered in full, 2 with the gap named.
| Ref | Specification statement | Taught in | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| MR1 | Recognising a binomial situation | The binomial distribution | Covered |
| MR2 | Identifying the probability of success | The binomial distribution | Covered |
| MR3 | Calculating binomial probabilities | The binomial distribution | Covered |
| MR4 | The mean of the binomial distribution | The binomial distribution, The normal distribution | Covered |
| MR5 | Expected frequencies for the binomial | The binomial distribution, Goodness-of-fit tests | Covered except: No lesson turns a binomial probability into an expected count. The question this row is about, how many of a stated number of repetitions would be expected to give a particular result, is never asked at A level, and expected frequencies appear only as the theoretical counts of a chi-squared test in Further Statistics, arrived at for a different purpose and without being connected back to the binomial model here. |
| MR6 | Discrete probability distributions | The binomial distribution | Covered |
| MR7 | Simple distributions and the discrete uniform | The binomial distribution | Covered |
| MR8 | The Normal distribution as a model | The normal distribution | Covered |
| MR9 | The shape of the Normal curve | The normal distribution | Covered except: The second half of the row is not taught. No lesson says that histograms of larger and larger samples from a normal population approach the curve itself, and none draws the sequence of histograms that would show it, so the curve arrives as a given shape rather than as the limit of something a reader could collect. |
| MR10 | Linear transformation and standardising | The normal distribution, Measures of location and spread, Combinations of normal random variables | Covered |
| MR11 | Symmetry and points of inflection of the Normal curve | The normal distribution | Covered |
| MR12 | Calculating Normal probabilities | The normal distribution | Covered |
| MR13 | Modelling with probability distributions | The normal distribution, The binomial distribution, Conditional probability | Covered |
ST-HYP Statistical hypothesis testing
10 of 11 covered in full, 1 with the gap named.
| Ref | Specification statement | Taught in | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| MH1 | The process and language of hypothesis testing | Hypothesis testing with the binomial | Covered |
| MH2 | One-tailed and two-tailed tests | Hypothesis testing with the binomial, Hypothesis testing: correlation and the normal | Covered |
| MH3 | Inference from a sample and the significance level | Hypothesis testing with the binomial | Covered |
| MH4 | Hypotheses for a binomial test | Hypothesis testing with the binomial | Covered |
| MH5 | Conducting a binomial test and concluding in context | Hypothesis testing with the binomial | Covered |
| MH6 | Critical and acceptance regions for a binomial test | Hypothesis testing with the binomial | Covered |
| MH7 | The distribution of the sample mean | Hypothesis testing: correlation and the normal, The Central Limit Theorem | Covered |
| MH8 | Testing a single mean with the Normal distribution | Hypothesis testing: correlation and the normal, The Central Limit Theorem | Covered except: Only the first of MEI's two situations is taught. Every worked test uses a population variance the question supplies; no lesson carries out a mean test in the second situation the Notes cell allows, where the population variance is unknown and the sample is large enough for the sample's own standard deviation to stand in for it, and no lesson states that substitution or the condition under which it is safe. |
| MH9 | Critical and acceptance regions for a mean test | Hypothesis testing: correlation and the normal | Covered |
| MH10 | Correlation and rank correlation as measures | Correlation and regression, Correlation coefficients: product moment and Spearman | Covered |
| MH11 | Inference from a given correlation coefficient | Hypothesis testing: correlation and the normal, Testing a correlation coefficient, Hypothesis testing with the binomial, Correlation and regression | Covered |
ME-MODEL Models and quantities
5 of 5 covered in full.
| Ref | Specification statement | Taught in | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mp31 | The language of simplifying assumptions | Modelling, quantities and units, Connected particles and pulleys, Log graphs and exponential models | Covered |
| Mp32 | The particle model | Modelling, quantities and units, Forces and Newton's laws | Covered |
| Mp33 | Fundamental quantities and units | Modelling, quantities and units | Covered |
| Mp34 | Derived quantities and units | Modelling, quantities and units, Forces and Newton's laws | Covered |
| Mp35 | The unit of moment | Moments | Covered |
ME-KIN1 Kinematics in 1 dimension
8 of 8 covered in full.
| Ref | Specification statement | Taught in | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mk1 | The language of kinematics | Modelling, quantities and units, Kinematics with constant acceleration, Kinematics with variable acceleration | Covered |
| Mk2 | Position, displacement, distance and distance travelled | Kinematics with variable acceleration, Kinematics with constant acceleration | Covered |
| Mk3 | Velocity against speed, acceleration against its magnitude | Modelling, quantities and units, Kinematics with variable acceleration | Covered |
| Mk4 | Kinematics graphs | Kinematics with constant acceleration | Covered |
| Mk5 | Differentiating position and velocity | Kinematics with variable acceleration | Covered |
| Mk6 | Integrating acceleration and velocity | Kinematics with variable acceleration | Covered |
| Mk7 | When the constant acceleration formulae apply | Kinematics with constant acceleration, Kinematics with variable acceleration | Covered |
| Mk8 | Solving straight-line kinematics problems | Kinematics with constant acceleration, Kinematics with variable acceleration | Covered |
ME-KIN2 Kinematics in 2 dimensions (A-level only)
2 of 4 covered in full, 2 with the gap named.
| Ref | Specification statement | Taught in | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mk9 | The language of kinematics in two dimensions | Kinematics with variable acceleration, Vectors in two dimensions, Kinematics with constant acceleration | Covered except: The board's term relative position is never used and the idea is never brought into kinematics. The vectors lesson does teach the displacement from one point to another as the difference of their position vectors, but no lesson names that as the position of one body relative to another or applies it to two bodies in motion, so a candidate meeting the phrase in a question has to guess that it means the subtraction they already know. |
| Mk10 | Extending one-dimensional techniques with vectors | Kinematics with variable acceleration, Kinematics with constant acceleration, Projectiles | Covered |
| Mk11 | The cartesian equation of a path | Projectiles, Parametric equations | Covered |
| Mk12 | Vectors in kinematics problems | Kinematics with variable acceleration, Projectiles, Kinematics with constant acceleration, Vectors in two dimensions | Covered except: The two-body problem MEI's note prescribes is not worked anywhere. No lesson takes the positions of two particles as functions of time and forms the position of one relative to the other, so the questions this row is set up for, how far apart two bodies are at a given time and whether they meet, have no worked model in the library even though every piece of the method is taught separately. |
ME-PROJ Projectiles (A-level only)
5 of 5 covered in full.
| Ref | Specification statement | Taught in | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| My1 | Modelling motion under gravity with vectors | Projectiles, Kinematics with constant acceleration | Covered |
| My2 | Position, velocity, range and greatest height | Projectiles | Covered |
| My3 | Finding the initial velocity | Projectiles | Covered |
| My4 | The equation of the trajectory | Projectiles, Parametric equations | Covered |
| My5 | Solving projectile problems | Projectiles | Covered |
ME-FORCE Forces
9 of 12 covered in full, 3 with the gap named.
| Ref | Specification statement | Taught in | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| MF1 | The language of forces | Forces and Newton's laws, Friction and inclined planes, Connected particles and pulleys | Covered |
| MF2 | Gravitational acceleration | Modelling, quantities and units, Kinematics with constant acceleration, Projectiles | Covered except: The first sentence of the row is not taught. No lesson says that the acceleration due to gravity is not a universal constant or that it depends on where in the universe the body is; the lessons introduce the standard value as a value to use and treat its constancy as a modelling assumption without saying what the assumption is an approximation to. |
| MF3 | Force diagrams, external and internal forces | Forces and Newton's laws, Connected particles and pulleys | Covered |
| MF4 | Resultant of concurrent forces in simple cases | Forces and Newton's laws, Statics of a particle | Covered |
| MF5 | Equilibrium of a particle in simple cases | Forces and Newton's laws, Statics of a particle, Connected particles and pulleys | Covered |
| MF6 | Resolving forces and adding components | Friction and inclined planes, Statics of a particle, Forces and Newton's laws | Covered |
| MF7 | Equilibrium as a zero resultant | Statics of a particle, Forces and Newton's laws, Friction and inclined planes | Covered |
| MF8 | Forces in equilibrium as a closed figure | Statics of a particle, Vectors in two dimensions, Forces and Newton's laws | Covered except: The second sentence of the row is not taught. No lesson draws the force vectors nose to tail to show that a set of forces in equilibrium closes into a figure, and none states that a closed figure is what represents their addition, so the geometric picture behind this row exists in the library only for vectors in the abstract and is never carried across to forces. |
| MF9 | Solving equilibrium problems by resolving or by a polygon | Statics of a particle, Friction and inclined planes, Connected particles and pulleys | Covered except: Only one of the two methods the row names is taught. No lesson draws or uses a polygon of forces, and the triangle of forces MEI gives as its example, where three forces in equilibrium form a closed triangle that can be solved with the sine or cosine rule, appears nowhere, so a question that asks for that method by name cannot be answered from the library. |
| MF10 | The contact force and its two components | Friction and inclined planes, Forces and Newton's laws | Covered |
| MF11 | Modelling friction | Friction and inclined planes, Statics of a particle, Connected particles and pulleys | Covered |
| MF12 | Newton's laws with friction | Friction and inclined planes, Connected particles and pulleys, Statics of a particle | Covered |
ME-NEWTON Newton's laws of motion
7 of 7 covered in full.
| Ref | Specification statement | Taught in | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mn1 | Newton's three laws | Forces and Newton's laws, Connected particles and pulleys, Statics of a particle | Covered |
| Mn2 | The equation of motion | Forces and Newton's laws | Covered |
| Mn3 | The equation of motion in simple cases | Forces and Newton's laws, Kinematics with constant acceleration, Friction and inclined planes | Covered |
| Mn4 | Modelling a system of connected particles | Connected particles and pulleys | Covered |
| Mn5 | Equations of motion for the individual particles | Connected particles and pulleys, Friction and inclined planes | Covered |
| Mn6 | A rigid system modelled as one particle | Connected particles and pulleys | Covered |
| Mn7 | The equation of motion in a plane | Forces and Newton's laws, Kinematics with variable acceleration, Projectiles | Covered |
ME-RIGID Rigid bodies (A-level only)
4 of 4 covered in full.
| Ref | Specification statement | Taught in | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| MF13 | The moment of a force about a point | Moments | Covered |
| MF14 | Equilibrium of a rigid body | Moments | Covered |
| MF15 | The turning effect of a system of forces | Moments | Covered |
| MF16 | Weight acting through a single point | Moments, Modelling, quantities and units | Covered |