Post by: nacho on February 17, 2012, 04:31:08 am
http://www.stewartcalculus.com/data/CALCULUS%207E%20Early%20Transcendentals/upfiles/6et_reviewofalgebra.pdf
http://www.stewartcalculus.com/data/CALCULUS%207E%20Early%20Transcendentals/upfiles/6et_reviewofanalgeom.pdf
VCAA made it pretty clear with last year's exam 1 that you should know basic algebra.
good to touch up on these fundamentals IMHO
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Post by: pi on February 18, 2012, 02:50:45 pm
I didn't even realise circles were on the methods course, I don't recall learning them in class. Then again, if they were learnt in year 11 then there would be various reasons why...
I'm pretty sure they're not on the Methods course :)
Post by: Hutchoo on February 18, 2012, 02:56:58 pm
I've seen them a few times in the essentials textbook for methods. They were all MC questions though, meaning you could use your calculator.I didn't even realise circles were on the methods course, I don't recall learning them in class. Then again, if they were learnt in year 11 then there would be various reasons why...
I'm pretty sure they're not on the Methods course :)
Post by: Kanon on February 18, 2012, 03:05:58 pm
Post by: TommyLie on February 18, 2012, 09:34:53 pm
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I'm pretty sure they're not on the Methods course :)
We did them in Methods 1+2 last year. Learn't the general equations of them and how to translate them. We used MQ 1+2 text book.
Post by: b^3 on February 18, 2012, 09:47:59 pm
http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/studies/mathematics/mathsstd.pdf pg 66, 68, 69
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This area of study will include:
- determination of rules of simple functions and relations from given information, including
polynomial functions to degree 4 and of transformations (dilation, reflection and translation) of
the square root and circle relations
Key Knowledge
- equations of circles at the origin and translations of these
Key Skills
• draw graphs of polynomial functions to degree 4 (approximate location of stationary points only
for cubic and quartic functions), power functions and circles of a given centre and radius;
BUT..... that is in units 1 & 2, there is no hits for "circle" using ctrl+f in the 3/4 methods part of the study design, so it looks like its just Methods 1/2 :) (....and spesh)
Post by: paulsterio on February 18, 2012, 10:09:29 pm
is a circle with the centre at
Probably doesn't hurt to know that, so my advice is just to know it, you never know when it might be required on an exam, you might be given a circle as part of a modelling task or something like that.