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Archived Discussion => 2010 => End-of-year exams => Exam Discussion => Victoria => Mathematical Methods CAS => Topic started by: kazekage on November 06, 2010, 11:21:01 pm
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A eulogy to the daring, snake bitten, treasure hunting, diamond saving adventurer who lived a short but couragest life. One of his many achievements in his life was saving saving the Zambeji diamond in the year of 2007, whose daring attempt to save the diamond and ability to run back from the bottom of a steep ass gorge in half the time, never ceased to amaze me. In the cunning year of 2008 Tasmainia narrowly escaped death from a snake bite because of his greed for gold, surely that will not be forgotton among us, And finally the year of 2009 where Mr. Jones was to save a stupid statue which most likely was twice his size. However, it remains a mystery if he saved it or not.
And so tasmainia, I hope you DIE THIS YEAR! You've brought anger and annoyance to me :@@@@
God rest his soul :)
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A eulogy to the daring, snake bitten, treasure hunting, diamond saving adventurer who lived a short but couragest life. One of his many achievements in his life was saving saving the Zambeji diamond in the year of 2007, whose daring attempt to save the diamond and ability to run back from the bottom of a steep ass gorge in half the time, never ceased to amaze me. In the cunning year of 2008 Tasmainia narrowly escaped death from a snake bite because of his greed for gold, surely that will not be forgotton among us, And finally the year of 2009 where Mr. Jones was to save a stupid statue which most likely was twice his size. However, it remains a mystery if he saved it or not.
And so tasmainia, I hope you DIE THIS YEAR! You've brought anger and annoyance to me :@@@@
God rest his soul :)
I was doing a 2001 exam this morning.
Her sister, Victoria Jones, was in it :O
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I'm waiting for the year when they accidentally put Indiana Jones in. We all know that is who Tasmania is based off, they should drop the guise. =P
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Indiana jones was on tv last night... vcaa planned that
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Indiana jones was on tv last night... vcaa planned that
lmao!
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I'm waiting for the year when they accidentally put Indiana Jones in. We all know that is who Tasmania is based off, they should drop the guise. =P
ooo indiana won't like that.
He might come and slide under the VCAA door and shoot em all up
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Indiana jones was on tv last night... vcaa planned that
That was exactly what I was thinking...
VCAA is like the illuminati to VCE students...
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I sincerely hope there is a Tasmania Jones question this year, despite the rumours I have heard that there won't be. If there is, I'm so gonna be tempted to start whistling the Indiana Jones tune in the exam.
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I was doing a 2001 exam this morning.
Her sister, Victoria Jones, was in it :O
They did originally have New South Wales Jones and Northern Territory Jones but alas, their names were so awful that they died of shame before featuring in any exams. RIP.
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I hope he's in it this year... the questions they can wrap a story of him around are usually not as hard as the rest...
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I hope he's in it this year... the questions they can wrap a story of him around are usually not as hard as the rest...
Agreed. However I detest having to battle through swathes of back story to find the relevant numbers, so in that regard TJ questions can be rather annoying.
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Wait until you meet his cousin, Galaxian Highscore from TSFX. . .
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I dont want to...
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inb4 Jane Bond makes an entrance.
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I don't want Tasmania Jones to die! His adventures make methods worth doing...
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Is Tasmania Jones a man or woman? Also, Tasmania Jones will never die because he/she is the heart and soul of the Methods course. Infinitely more important than calculus or whatever.
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Who is Tasmania Jones? Some character that goes on adventures in methods exams I hear?
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Who is Tasmania Jones? Some character that goes on adventures in methods exams I hear?
Yes. That's right.
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This prick better be on the exam tomorrow. He brings me good luck. :D
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Been seeing this fag all year long, my teacher just had to include him in every single SAC that she writes....
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This prick better be on the exam tomorrow. He brings me good luck. :D
lol, I reckon there might be something about him driving a car or something and we need to use calculus to determine velocity, displacement and shiz.
Or at least I hope :)
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Tasmania Jones has landed in Egypt, where he spotted many pyramids in the desert. In each pyramid, there is a bag filled with gold. He climbs a pyramid, where he throws a rope down with a length of 5m. If he falls, he would be trapped into a hole dugged up as a cone shape, where he would be isolated into a tube known as the 'cone of death'.
a) Find the height of the pyramid (we will not give you how deep the cone is, find out yourself students) (1 mark)
As he was climbing down the rope, a rock fell from the top fell on him, where he fell into the cone of death
b) Using a mathematical formula, how can Tasmania Jones escape (1 mark)
5 minutes later, a helicopter had arrived to save Tasmania from the cone of death 30 metres above, where they flew him to safety. But, because he slipped earlier, he slipped again from the rope again, thus falling into another pyramid, and into another cone of death.
c) Cone for Death, Cone of Death, Cone of Death? (1 mark)
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I can imagine a question like that actually haha
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c) Cone for Death, Cone of Death, Cone of Death? (1 mark)
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the answer to this question is:
(Cone of Death)^3 divided by 0.
thus Tasmania Jones has been lost in an everlasting vortex where he will never be heard of again.
:)
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This prick better be on the exam tomorrow. He brings me good luck. :D
lol, I reckon there might be something about him driving a car or something and we need to use calculus to determine velocity, displacement and shiz.
Or at least I hope :)
That sounds like Spesh 07.. Just there's no celebrity in Spesh exams =( Instead it was a criminal being chased by a policeman. They could've at least made it interesting.. xD
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Die Tasmania die!!! why didn't those pack of dogs catch him in the 08 exam(i think it was the o8 exam) and tasmania jones could have been eaten by a pack of dogs!!!
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They should make him die every year.. Only to revive him the next :D
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They should make him die every year.. Only to revive him the next :D
They should actually make a question where he does die. NOONE will get it right, they'd all change their answers :P
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Die Tasmania die!!! why didn't those pack of dogs catch him in the 08 exam(i think it was the o8 exam) and tasmania jones could have been eaten by a pack of dogs!!!
2008 was snake venom... i don't know why everyone bags him.. if i was bitten by a snake i know the first thing i'd do is whip out my cas and derive the path to the venom..... (sarcasm)
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Was that the one where he had to run through the beach or something like that? that one was pretty funny. or the one where he had 3.75 seconds spare before the concentration got too high hahaha
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Yeah it was that one
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2008 was snake venom... i don't know why everyone bags him.. if i was bitten by a snake i know the first thing i'd do is whip out my cas and derive the path to the venom..... (sarcasm)
rotfl!! when in danger... use your cas calculator!! It will save you from dieing from snake bites/evil dogs/having native dissolve your statue in acid
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Was that the one where he had to run through the beach or something like that? that one was pretty funny. or the one where he had 3.75 seconds spare before the concentration got too high hahaha
Well accounting for the f*cking lag from the Classpad, he would have died.
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Was that the one where he had to run through the beach or something like that? that one was pretty funny. or the one where he had 3.75 seconds spare before the concentration got too high hahaha
Well accounting for the f*cking lag from the Classpad, he would have died.
It was 0.0375 seconds.
Highly realistic question.
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0.0625 minutes = 3.75 seconds
? unless the Classpad gave that answer of 0.0375 seconds LOL
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0.0625 minutes = 3.75 seconds
? unless the Classpad gave that answer of 0.0375 seconds LOL
lol, maybe. i did this like 3 weeks ago so i have totally forgotten it :P
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what about the zambeji tribe?!
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lol tasmania jones has a facebook page!!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tasmania-Jones/39164499898?v=wall
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Last year there was a facebook page wishing that he drowned in the vat of acid ;D
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Pfft, I have a bunch of old exams on my computer which a teacher gave to me, and TJ existed right back in 1999.
Edit: Make that 1997...
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I want an entire exam based around Tasmania. An entire movie told through a series of extended response questions interspersed within 22 multiple choice questions.
Wow that would be amazing :D
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It might make exams actually interesting. The suspense. would be. awesome. People would actually be driven to finish the exam.. It may even get people to go faster.
Great idea. Approach VCAA after exams :D You will make millions.
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Why don't the just condense "Raiders of the Lost Ark" into an exam?
BTW Last year was the worst one yet, a few people at my school complained to the invigilators about how "it didn't tell us what happened afterwards" lol
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Why don't the just condense "Raiders of the Lost Ark" into an exam?
BTW Last year was the worst one yet, a few people at my school complained to the invigilators about how "it didn't tell us what happened afterwards" lol
It will probably be continued this year... "Tasmania Jones and the statue, Part II" We'll probably need to work out how much the concentration of the acid will decrease with time as it reacts with the air, and this will affect the rate at which the statue dissolves. :P
Giving him more time to save the precious artifact after all hope was lost.
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I reckon it could have something to do with Tasmania Jones running to escape a boulder gathering speed behind him.
Personally, I wouldn't mind if he gets crushed by it..
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Maybe there will be a little asian kid in this one that rescues him but is conditional of whether he wants these stupid questions to continue.
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This prick better be on the exam tomorrow. He brings me good luck. :D
All his questions are calculus ones from memory.. If so, then that's probably why you do better on them
Calculus and difficult don't belong in the same sentence =P (in VCE)
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This prick better be on the exam tomorrow. He brings me good luck. :D
lol, I reckon there might be something about him driving a car or something and we need to use calculus to determine velocity, displacement and shiz.
Or at least I hope :)
That sounds like Spesh 07.. Just there's no celebrity in Spesh exams =( Instead it was a criminal being chased by a policeman. They could've at least made it interesting.. xD
lol I remember doing a question like that in physics :P obviously wouldn't involve all those crazy spesh stuff tho.
I miss unit 3 physics :(
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This prick better be on the exam tomorrow. He brings me good luck. :D
All his questions are calculus ones from memory.. If so, then that's probably why you do better on them
Calculus and difficult don't belong in the same sentence =P (in VCE)
There was a probability one with Tasmania throwing the javelin a few years ago, but I think you're spot on apart from that.
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Ha, thought so. I can't even remember the javelin one xD
This prick better be on the exam tomorrow. He brings me good luck. :D
lol, I reckon there might be something about him driving a car or something and we need to use calculus to determine velocity, displacement and shiz.
Or at least I hope :)
That sounds like Spesh 07.. Just there's no celebrity in Spesh exams =( Instead it was a criminal being chased by a policeman. They could've at least made it interesting.. xD
lol I remember doing a question like that in physics :P obviously wouldn't involve all those crazy spesh stuff tho.
I miss unit 3 physics :(
Dude, you way overstate the level of Spesh... It is only a small step forward from Methods!
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Ha, thought so. I can't even remember the javelin one xD
This prick better be on the exam tomorrow. He brings me good luck. :D
lol, I reckon there might be something about him driving a car or something and we need to use calculus to determine velocity, displacement and shiz.
Or at least I hope :)
That sounds like Spesh 07.. Just there's no celebrity in Spesh exams =( Instead it was a criminal being chased by a policeman. They could've at least made it interesting.. xD
lol I remember doing a question like that in physics :P obviously wouldn't involve all those crazy spesh stuff tho.
I miss unit 3 physics :(
Dude, you way overstate the level of Spesh... It is only a small step forward from Methods!
Spesh is overrated.
Lost more marks in methods paper 1 than both specs paper combined already lol...
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LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL TASMANIA JONES
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Ha, thought so. I can't even remember the javelin one xD
This prick better be on the exam tomorrow. He brings me good luck. :D
lol, I reckon there might be something about him driving a car or something and we need to use calculus to determine velocity, displacement and shiz.
Or at least I hope :)
That sounds like Spesh 07.. Just there's no celebrity in Spesh exams =( Instead it was a criminal being chased by a policeman. They could've at least made it interesting.. xD
lol I remember doing a question like that in physics :P obviously wouldn't involve all those crazy spesh stuff tho.
I miss unit 3 physics :(
Dude, you way overstate the level of Spesh... It is only a small step forward from Methods!
If i had done spesh I would have like failed all my other subjects though, because it requires like 15 hours study a day...true?
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False. I don't think I've done 15 hours study for Spesh ... this year. =P
EDIT: Lol, alright maybe I have done 15.
For you though, I'd estimate ~25 hours per day.
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False. I don't think I've done 15 hours study for Spesh ... this year.
Lies!
But I don't think spesh would be too bad if you did methods first then spesh the next year :)
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Seriously though, I averaged probably ~30 minutes of light reading per week, as well as doing nothing in class..
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Seriously though, I averaged probably ~30 minutes of light reading per week, as well as doing nothing in class..
Reading what exactly?
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Seriously though, I averaged probably ~30 minutes of light reading per week, as well as doing nothing in class..
haha, similar to my study for all my subjects through out the year, except before a SAC (and of course exams)
Seriously though, I averaged probably ~30 minutes of light reading per week, as well as doing nothing in class..
Reading what exactly?
Manga or Game magazines
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Seriously though, I averaged probably ~30 minutes of light reading per week, as well as doing nothing in class..
Reading what exactly?
Textbook sometimes, though I was really put off it - we used MathsQuest xD
Most of the time, I just resorted to reading Stuarts Calculus, the book used for MUEP maths. It covers vectors and graphing and circular functions and of course calculus. No separate sections on complex or kinematics/mechanics from memory..
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i hope tazzie jones falls in a hole and dies :D
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i hope tazzie jones falls in a hole and dies :D
yeh i well damn hope so too!
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i hope tazzie jones falls in a hole and dies :D
Yeah, and then we can work out the rate at which dirt gets poured into the hole to bury him for good. :D
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i hope tazzie jones falls in a hole and dies :D
Yeah, and then we can work out the rate at which dirt gets poured into the hole to bury him for good. :D
haha gud1
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i hope tazzie jones falls in a hole and dies :D
Yeah, and then we can work out the rate at which dirt gets poured into the hole to bury him for good. :D
and find that he fell in a cylinder that was inside the cone......
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i hope tazzie jones falls in a hole and dies :D
Yeah, and then we can work out the rate at which dirt gets poured into the hole to bury him for good. :D
and find that he fell in a cylinder that was inside the cone......
i was gonna say, wouldn't it be ironic if he falls and dies in the 'cone of death' haha...
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i hope tazzie jones falls in a hole and dies :D
Yeah, and then we can work out the rate at which dirt gets poured into the hole to bury him for good. :D
and find that he fell in a cylinder that was inside the cone......
i was gonna say, wouldn't it be ironic if he falls and dies in the 'cone of death' haha...
hahaha, the facebook group would go apeshit lolol
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"Tasmania jones, whilst running away from the FBI due to copyright infringements on the name "Indiana Jones", falls from a edge of a cliff into a black hole whose dimensions are like that of a cylinder. whilst being crushed into singularity, he is impailed by a cone-shaped piece of wood, with the depth of the cone being represented by the equation
D = b^a.cos^(bx) + 42
where b represent his current mass, a his distance from the event horizon, and x the time since he fell from the cliff.
a) which destroys him first, the cone or the black hole, support your answer with relevant equations."
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"Tasmania jones, whilst running away from the FBI due to copyright infringements on the name "Indiana Jones", falls from a edge of a cliff into a black hole whose dimensions are like that of a cylinder. whilst being crushed into singularity, he is impailed by a cone-shaped piece of wood, with the depth of the cone being represented by the equation
D = b^a.cos^(bx) + 42
where b represent his current mass, a his distance from the event horizon, and x the time since he fell from the cliff.
a) which destroys him first, the cone or the black hole, support your answer with relevant equations."
lolllllllllllll! FBI. funny as...
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LOL Epic thread.
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"Tasmania Jones, in between his epic mathematical adventures, leads a rockin' sex life. Tasmania is a bit of a playboy and has been known to engage in intercourse with as many as 100 women in the course of one year, seducing them with his charisma and ability to differentiate complex cubic functions. The chest sizes of these women are normally distributed, with a mean of 87cm and a standard deviation of 8cm..."
blah blah blah
"Due to his unscrupulous sexual action, Tasmania contracts a rare STD which spreads through his body with the % of his genital region infected at time t days given by I = sqrt(100t) where t is greater or equal to 0. Tasmania's appendage will have to be amputated if this figure exceeds 50%. In how many days will this occur?
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Bahahahahahaha too good (Y)
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LOLOLOL
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ROTFL!! freakily enough he wasn't in the exam so I'm making th assumption that his died in a vat of acid last year
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lol stacey!!!