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VCE Stuff => VCE Mathematics => VCE Mathematics/Science/Technology => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE Specialist Mathematics => Topic started by: brightsky on December 28, 2009, 09:02:49 pm
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How closely related is Physics and Specialist Maths? Is it really essential to study Physics if considering to do Spesh?
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Its not essential but it is an advantage.
Structures and materials (tension, etc) is all repeated again in spesh, and projectile motion.
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What's the actual advantage? Is it merely the fact that you are exposed to the related studies more often, or...?
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What crappy said. The physics component of Spesh is covered in GMA - Dynamics and Kinematics.
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I say it's an advantage doing physics because you'll know the basics of kinematics and dynamics. However I found once we moved into calculus physics, the people in our class who did physics didn't do so well. In fact on our kinematics/dynamics sac, the top 3 marks were people who didn't do physics.
Now it's not to say it's essential to do physics to do well in specialist. I didn't do physics but I still managed to obtain a perfect score in Specialist. In the top 4 scores at our school, only 1 of them actually did physics. It doesn't mean there's a small amount of physics in spesh. There's actually quite a lot on it, but it's simple to understand it, especially when calculus is involved
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Yeah its only a small part of Spesh, it helps a bit, but they teach it in gma, and i managed to do better than my friend who does physics.