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Will They Remove Physics From VCE?
« on: October 28, 2008, 10:22:27 pm »
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Not sure if this really is a rant or debate, but much speculation has arisen over Physics actually still being a part of the VCE curriculum. Specialist is basically one portion of Physics, with the rest being split among chemistry and other related subjects. With this notion, is there really any point in continuing having Physics as a VCE subject anymore?

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Re: Will They Remove Physics From VCE?
« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2008, 10:25:46 pm »
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In short. No
They will not remove Physics

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Re: Will They Remove Physics From VCE?
« Reply #2 on: October 28, 2008, 10:35:12 pm »
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That's one of the most retarded things I've ever heard. Though there's slight overlap with chem and spec, but it's not a very major overlap. University physics also assumes that you know all the things covered in yr11&12 physics (the basics of waves & optics, quantum mechanics, electromagnetism, etc.). If you tried to do any uni physics course only on the back of spec and chem you'd be completely fucked.

Also I have no idea where this "much speculation" has come from, it's the first I've heard of it.
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Re: Will They Remove Physics From VCE?
« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2008, 02:05:42 pm »
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That's one of the most retarded things I've ever heard. Though there's slight overlap with chem and spec, but it's not a very major overlap. University physics also assumes that you know all the things covered in yr11&12 physics (the basics of waves & optics, quantum mechanics, electromagnetism, etc.). If you tried to do any uni physics course only on the back of spec and chem you'd be completely fucked.

Also I have no idea where this "much speculation" has come from, it's the first I've heard of it.
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Re: Will They Remove Physics From VCE?
« Reply #4 on: October 29, 2008, 02:53:51 pm »
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That's one of the most retarded things I've ever heard. Though there's slight overlap with chem and spec, but it's not a very major overlap. University physics also assumes that you know all the things covered in yr11&12 physics (the basics of waves & optics, quantum mechanics, electromagnetism, etc.). If you tried to do any uni physics course only on the back of spec and chem you'd be completely fucked.

Also I have no idea where this "much speculation" has come from, it's the first I've heard of it.

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It will never get removed form the VCE course.
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Re: Will They Remove Physics From VCE?
« Reply #5 on: October 29, 2008, 02:54:45 pm »
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Removing it would be a stupid idea. No one understands it as it is, and all the engineering kids need *some* understanding of it.

And the overlap between spec and physics is tiny, you look at things from different angles anyway (it was quite fun, my spec teacher made up problems that were supposed to be hard that I solved in physics-y ways in 2 lines :D)

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Re: Will They Remove Physics From VCE?
« Reply #6 on: October 29, 2008, 04:41:07 pm »
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Removing it would be a stupid idea. No one understands it as it is, and all the engineering kids need *some* understanding of it.

And the overlap between spec and physics is tiny, you look at things from different angles anyway (it was quite fun, my spec teacher made up problems that were supposed to be hard that I solved in physics-y ways in 2 lines :D)

Lol yeah I do that with inclined slopes and conservation of energy.

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Re: Will They Remove Physics From VCE?
« Reply #7 on: October 29, 2008, 05:06:32 pm »
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Where did this all start, I've never heard of it

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Re: Will They Remove Physics From VCE?
« Reply #8 on: October 29, 2008, 05:09:41 pm »
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I also heard that they were gonna morph BusMan, Legal Studies, Accounting and Economics together because all of them slightly overlap with eachother! ROFL. the subject will be called Business studies

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Re: Will They Remove Physics From VCE?
« Reply #9 on: October 29, 2008, 05:13:15 pm »
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I also heard that they're merging foundation, further, methods and specialist maths into one maths subject.
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Re: Will They Remove Physics From VCE?
« Reply #10 on: October 29, 2008, 05:14:31 pm »
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Re: Will They Remove Physics From VCE?
« Reply #11 on: October 29, 2008, 08:42:59 pm »
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I also heard that they're merging foundation, further, methods and specialist maths into one maths subject.

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Re: Will They Remove Physics From VCE?
« Reply #12 on: October 29, 2008, 08:56:58 pm »
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LOL VCAL Numeracy?!
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Re: Will They Remove Physics From VCE?
« Reply #13 on: October 29, 2008, 08:58:54 pm »
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I also heard that they were gonna morph BusMan, Legal Studies, Accounting and Economics together because all of them slightly overlap with eachother! ROFL. the subject will be called Business studies

lol..

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Re: Will They Remove Physics From VCE?
« Reply #14 on: October 29, 2008, 09:08:08 pm »
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as soon as Neobeo, Ahmad and dcc finalise the grand-unification, all sciences* will be taught under the same umbrella.

*excluding fake sciences such as Biology, Psychology, Social Sciences... :P
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