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Title: Accreditation period for Spec
Post by: Will T on March 12, 2013, 07:43:01 pm: So I was looking at the Study Design for Spec and going through an old Study guide I found in the library for it and in both of them they have explicit mention of functions of the form: $ax^m + bx^{-n}$ for m,n = 1, 2, but I haven't seen any of this stuff in class or in the essentials, is it still in the Study Design, because on the VCAA website under Spec it still states that this is relevant material.
Title: Re: Accreditation period for Spec
Post by: Jeggz on March 12, 2013, 07:44:29 pm: Isn't this just a part of graphing of rational functions? (ie using addition of ordinates)
Or am I completely mistaken? :-\
Title: Re: Accreditation period for Spec
Post by: Will T on March 12, 2013, 07:50:32 pm: Yeah but then there's all this oblique asymptote stuff, as in asymptotes that are equations of straight lines (not y = a or x = b).
For example, the graph of $y = 2x + \frac{2}{x}$ has an oblique asymptote at y = 2x, and a vertical asymptote at x = 0.
Title: Re: Accreditation period for Spec
Post by: pi on March 12, 2013, 07:51:53 pm: Look up MQ, there's a chapter on this specific part of the study design :)
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Post by: Jeggz on March 12, 2013, 07:54:53 pm: I assume MQ is Maths Quest? :)
Title: Re: Accreditation period for Spec
Post by: Daenerys Targaryen on March 12, 2013, 07:59:06 pm: Quote from: myuraa on March 12, 2013, 07:54:53 pm
I assume MQ is Maths Quest? :)
yup
Title: Re: Accreditation period for Spec
Post by: pi on March 12, 2013, 08:00:05 pm: Oops, I meant *exercise (not chapter, in my above post)
Title: Re: Accreditation period for Spec
Post by: Daenerys Targaryen on March 12, 2013, 08:01:24 pm: We do this stuff in methods dont we?
Addition of ordinates?
Title: Re: Accreditation period for Spec
Post by: pi on March 12, 2013, 08:05:45 pm: Quote from: HatersGonnaHate on March 12, 2013, 08:01:24 pm
We do this stuff in methods dont we?
Addition of ordinates?

yeah, but not in as much detail afaik

Also, see this #shamelessplug Re: Specialist Mathematics Resources
Title: Re: Accreditation period for Spec
Post by: Will T on March 12, 2013, 08:31:28 pm: Thanks a lot Pi, very helpful.
Title: Re: Accreditation period for Spec
Post by: Conic on March 12, 2013, 10:19:01 pm: There's also an exercise (6G I think) in the essentials book if you have that.
Title: Re: Accreditation period for Spec
Post by: Lasercookie on March 13, 2013, 05:54:27 pm: Quote from: Will T on March 12, 2013, 07:43:01 pm
is it still in the Study Design, because on the VCAA website under Spec it still states that this is relevant material.
The version of the study design on the VCAA website is always the latest version, so if it says it's relevant, you should generally assume that it is.

But yeah oblique asymptotes etc. are reasonably common questions on exams, you can probably expect that you'll come across it in class soon enough. From memory Essentials and Heinemann covered this stuff, so that means that it is in all three textbooks.