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Title: Predictions on types of questions to expect on physics unit 4?
Post by: jordanclyde on October 07, 2011, 11:58:55 pm

Does anyone have any idea or perhaps predictions on what we could expect from the physics exam.
Besides from the basic VCAA check list?
Perhaps a pattern with the VCAA exams?

Title: Re: Predictions on types of questions to expect on physics unit 4?
Post by: Lasercookie on October 08, 2011, 01:35:21 pm

It's probably not worth wasting your time focusing only on a few select things, make sure you know the entire unit's worth of content.

I have noticed in exams that
Electric power - lots of plug into the formula type stuff. If there is a theory question, it's usually to do with commutators, using DC in a transformer, power loss in lines etc. Transmission questions are usually a series of questions.

Light - usually has the most theory questions (these questions are quite diverse as well, from what I've seen). I've seen that most exams have something like diffraction in an x-ray and compare it to diffraction of an electron (and then go do calculations).