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Electric fields is topic 18 of the Cambridge 9702 syllabus (2025–2027), covering field lines, uniform fields, Coulomb's law, the field of a point charge and electric potential. It is A Level content, examined in Paper 4 (A Level Structured Questions), which carries 38.5% of the A Level. Students commonly confuse electric field strength with electric potential, omit the word "positive" from definitions, and mishandle signs when charges are negative. Motion of charged particles in uniform fields, often resembling projectile motion, requires clear separation of components. Because gravitational and electric fields are closely analogous yet differ in important respects, comparing them systematically is one of the most effective revision strategies.

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• 9702/41/O/N/24 Q5 — electric field and potential · 10 marks
• 9702/42/O/N/24 Q6 — Electric fields and Coulomb's law · 10 marks
• 9702/43/O/N/24 Q5 — Electric fields and potential · 10 marks
• 9702/42/M/J/24 Q5 — electric potential and motion · 7 marks
• 9702/43/M/J/24 Q5 — electric and magnetic fields · 13 marks
• 9702/41/O/N/23 Q5 — electric potential · 8 marks
• 9702/42/O/N/23 Q5 — Coulomb's law and electric fields · 11 marks
• 9702/43/O/N/23 Q5 — electric potential and motion · 8 marks
• 9702/41/M/J/23 Q1 — gravitational and electric fields · 11 marks
• 9702/43/M/J/23 Q1 — gravitational and electric fields · 11 marks
• 9702/42/F/M/23 Q1 — gravitational potential · 12 marks
• 9702/42/F/M/23 Q4 — Coulomb's law and electric fields · 12 marks
• 9702/41/O/N/22 Q4 — Electric fields and forces · 12 marks
• 9702/42/O/N/22 Q5 — Electric potential and energy · 10 marks
• 9702/43/O/N/22 Q4 — Electric fields and forces · 12 marks
• 9702/41/M/J/22 Q2 — electric and magnetic fields · 8 marks
• 9702/42/M/J/22 Q2 — Coulomb's law and positronium · 13 marks
• 9702/43/M/J/22 Q2 — electric and magnetic fields · 8 marks
• 9702/42/F/M/22 Q4 — electric fields · 6 marks
• 9702/42/O/N/21 Q6 — electric potential and capacitance · 7 marks
• 9702/41/M/J/21 Q6 — Electric fields and de Broglie wavelength · 8 marks
• 9702/42/M/J/21 Q5 — Electric potential and photoelectric effect · 9 marks
• 9702/43/M/J/21 Q6 — Electric fields and quantum physics · 8 marks
• 9702/42/F/M/21 Q6 — electric fields and capacitance · 7 marks
• 9702/41/O/N/20 Q5 — electric potential · 9 marks
• 9702/42/O/N/20 Q5 — fields and forces · 11 marks
• 9702/43/O/N/20 Q5 — electric potential · 9 marks
• 9702/41/M/J/20 Q5 — electric fields and point masses · 7 marks
• 9702/42/M/J/20 Q7 — electric field strength · 10 marks
• 9702/42/M/J/20 Q9 — motion of charged particles in fields · 10 marks

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