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VCE Stuff => VCE Science => VCE Mathematics/Science/Technology => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE Physics => Topic started by: NE2000 on December 05, 2008, 12:03:48 pm
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Does anyone have an electronic copy? I can't find it on the VCAA website
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its on the website
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http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/studies/physics/physicsindex.html
direct link!
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Thanks, Jacaranda Physics has done a really rough job on updating their book for the new study design. They've just deleted sections here and there.
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Thanks, Jacaranda Physics has done a really rough job on updating their book for the new study design. They've just deleted sections here and there.
Are you talking about the new Jacaranda book? =S If so, that's not good as I use that one as well.
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Thanks, Jacaranda Physics has done a really rough job on updating their book for the new study design. They've just deleted sections here and there.
Are you talking about the new Jacaranda book? =S If so, that's not good as I use that one as well.
Yep the new one.
Example I found was at one point in the Further Electronics Detailed Study it said, "capacitors were discussed in chapter four" but as far as I can see capacitors, having been removed from the study design for Electronics, had its entire section removed from chapter four. I don't know how the other detailed studies are though. They removed a discussion on reference frames in the motion section which may or may not affect the relativity detailed study.
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what are the textbooks for the new physics design?
-jac
-heinemann
-anything else?
i think i use the jac, its got a holographic front cover? is that one the crap one?
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what are the textbooks for the new physics design?
-jac
-heinemann
-anything else?
i think i use the jac, its got a holographic front cover? is that one the crap one?
Yeah Jacaranda is the holographic cover with waves or something.
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what are the textbooks for the new physics design?
-jac
-heinemann
-anything else?
i think i use the jac, its got a holographic front cover? is that one the crap one?
Yes, altho I haven't looked at any of the others and maybe jac is relatively better. It's early days yet so need to worry about it right now :)
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It is wise to get the new edition of the textbooks or could one use this years book? As NE2000 said the only thing they have done is take out a small section here and there, everything else is the same, right?
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you don't need a textbook for Physics 3/4. Seriously it's no use
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you don't need a textbook for Physics 3/4. Seriously it's no use
For the theory? :O No?
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nope, just listen in class, and do exams. textbooks are useless. I only used them for pre-reading, most of the stuff is taught in class
we never used the textbook in class, and one of my friend's school didn't even put a textbook on their booklist.
to say the truth, there really isn't much to learn in physics, and now that a lot of things have been taken out, there is even less to learn.
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i second that, using the text book actually made me do worser... you dont need a textbook.
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nope, just listen in class, and do exams. textbooks are useless. I only used them for pre-reading, most of the stuff is taught in class
we never used the textbook in class, and one of my friend's school didn't even put a textbook on their booklist.
to say the truth, there really isn't much to learn in physics, and now that a lot of things have been taken out, there is even less to learn.
Ah okay thanks Mao. It's all about the teacher then :O
i second that, using the text book actually made me do worser... you dont need a textbook.
It was a disadvantage to use a textbook? How did it come down to that? :S
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i second that, using the text book actually made me do worser
lol
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...and now that a lot of things have been taken out, there is even less to learn.
Could you or anyone else specify, from what you know, what material has been taken out for the new course?
As far as I can tell from this site [ http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/correspondence/bulletins/2008/march/2008MARLIFT.pdf ], the only changes are to Unit 3, which are:
• **“Absolute nature of space and time” removed** [Motion]
• **No more transistor amplifiers** [Electronics / Photonics]
(although voltage amplifiers are retained)
(All the key point modification stuff on that website seems largely irrelevant, I was looking for explicit information about removal of required knowledge!)
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No more transistor amplifiers! Hahaha. Very few of the physics teachers understood them anyway.