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VCE Stuff => VCE Science => VCE Mathematics/Science/Technology => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE Physics => Topic started by: Flaming_Arrow on June 15, 2008, 01:56:07 pm

Title: Physics 2009
Post by: Flaming_Arrow on June 15, 2008, 01:56:07 pm
Does anyone know what the curriculum is next year?
Title: Re: Physics 2009
Post by: ed_saifa on June 15, 2008, 02:01:51 pm
Same except they're taking out transistors.
Title: Re: Physics 2009
Post by: Flaming_Arrow on June 15, 2008, 02:14:29 pm
cool thanks
so they arent adding anything new?
Title: Re: Physics 2009
Post by: /0 on June 15, 2008, 02:23:04 pm
Lol transistors... didn't they add them in a few years ago?
Title: Re: Physics 2009
Post by: ed_saifa on June 15, 2008, 02:25:13 pm
Lol transistors... didn't they add them in a few years ago?
I think so. The results from the exams indicated only a small percentage got them right.
Title: Re: Physics 2009
Post by: dcc on June 15, 2008, 04:05:05 pm
Lol transistors... didn't they add them in a few years ago?
I think so. The results from the exams indicated only a small percentage got them right.

That and the fact that VCE level transistors has absolutely no physics involved whatsoever.  The most physics we learn in VCE electronics is ohms law, we never actually learn about how/why all these things happen, just reading graphs and drawing pretty pictures (which inherently are incorrect anyway).
Title: Re: Physics 2009
Post by: ed_saifa on June 15, 2008, 04:07:32 pm
Yeah, apprently the universities wanted vce students to have some knowlege of it because the uni students found it difficult to understand as well.
Title: Re: Physics 2009
Post by: iamdan08 on June 15, 2008, 05:12:41 pm
Yeah electronics for me was very "just accept it because it's true" and recquired very little understanding of why something happens.
Title: Re: Physics 2009
Post by: Mao on June 15, 2008, 07:50:00 pm
Yeah, apprently the universities wanted vce students to have some knowlege of it because the uni students found it difficult to understand as well.

transistors are understandably hard, but them in VCE is just plainly a JOKE

see the joke in detail: http://vcenotes.com/forum/index.php/topic,3707.0.html

with the level of understanding of electronics in VCE Physics, there is no possible way for VCAA to expect the cohort to learn it properly, so they dumbed it down to a level they thought acceptable
except that level is completely wrong, idiot, and escapes physical principles

:P
Title: Re: Physics 2009
Post by: Flaming_Arrow on June 16, 2008, 10:38:33 pm
thanks guys :)