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Title: TSFX Physics 29th May, your thoughts?
Post by: onur369 on May 29, 2011, 06:46:17 pm
How did you guys find it?

Oh and Geoff kept blaming Greg for so many things in the notes it wasn't funny anymore.
Title: Re: TSFX Physics 29th May, your thoughts?
Post by: jaz_rocks_123 on May 29, 2011, 08:06:40 pm
Meh, wasn't amazing or anything, but I guess I can't complain. :)
Title: Re: TSFX Physics 29th May, your thoughts?
Post by: Lasercookie on May 29, 2011, 09:00:42 pm
They skipped way too much of the more important concepts because they wasted too much time on the easy concepts. Like all those electronics problems he worked through, he didn't need to go through all of those ones, it would have been better if he spent more time on harder questions.

The motion section got barely covered. He really didn't need to go on so long about deceleration and his other rambles. I guess he did make his point about over complicating pretty clear through that deceleration bit though.

But I would have preferred it if he could have talked about energy, Hookes law, momentum etc.

EDIT: That post seemed fairly negative, Geoff was a pretty interesting lecturer to listen to, the others weren't bad either. It was impressive how Geoff seems to have memorised every exam question and can repeat them off the top of his head.
Title: Re: TSFX Physics 29th May, your thoughts?
Post by: onur369 on May 29, 2011, 09:07:30 pm
I was shattered they didnt go over momentum and such like. Geoff was good but he spent way too much time on the basics.
Title: Re: TSFX Physics 29th May, your thoughts?
Post by: Lasercookie on May 29, 2011, 09:12:34 pm
I guess I could keep going on about how it could have been better, but at least they did provide us with those notes, there's gotta be something useful in there somewhere. If I'll go to TSFX again, I don't know if its really worth the cost. Maybe we can organise a small list of items that they can improve on and send it to them?

The only other lecture I've been to is the KLD/UMEP Melbourne Uni ones, I thought the physics one for that was pretty fantastic. It was only 90 minutes and purely focussed on exam technique.
Title: Re: TSFX Physics 29th May, your thoughts?
Post by: cohen on May 29, 2011, 09:14:29 pm
What did they do regarding the detailed studies? Like, how did they split you guys up properly, etc?
Title: Re: TSFX Physics 29th May, your thoughts?
Post by: onur369 on May 29, 2011, 09:15:55 pm
They gave the detailed study booklets and then we went to separate theatres.
Title: Re: TSFX Physics 29th May, your thoughts?
Post by: pi on May 29, 2011, 09:22:22 pm
Great lecture! Got me into physics again! :)
Title: Re: TSFX Physics 29th May, your thoughts?
Post by: onur369 on May 29, 2011, 09:24:59 pm
Where you sitting at the bottom left? Im just thinking of the time when Geoff tried to give it to the mhs boys.
Title: Re: TSFX Physics 29th May, your thoughts?
Post by: pi on May 29, 2011, 09:31:13 pm
Where you sitting at the bottom left? Im just thinking of the time when Geoff tried to give it to the mhs boys.

Nah, I was going to sit with them, but then it would have been pretty rowdy, so we split into two groups (anyways Geoff gave it to me in the summer school once for knowing too many pythagorean triads...). I was in the right seating area (from our view, not the lecturers'), about four rows from the front. A decent spot for a lecture.
Title: Re: TSFX Physics 29th May, your thoughts?
Post by: onur369 on May 29, 2011, 09:33:39 pm
Haha I know how you look like then ! I was sitting next to one of the VN members also.
Title: Re: TSFX Physics 29th May, your thoughts?
Post by: Lasercookie on May 29, 2011, 09:38:52 pm
Haha I know how you look like then ! I was sitting next to one of the VN members also.

Your cheatsheet is epically awesome.
Title: Re: TSFX Physics 29th May, your thoughts?
Post by: onur369 on May 29, 2011, 09:43:28 pm
Haha, I should do the copyright symbol like the one Geoff showed us on the projector.
Title: Re: TSFX Physics 29th May, your thoughts?
Post by: cohen on May 29, 2011, 09:46:36 pm
is there any way you could upload this "epically awesome" cheat sheet? xD
Title: Re: TSFX Physics 29th May, your thoughts?
Post by: pi on May 30, 2011, 06:57:54 pm
Haha I know how you look like then ! I was sitting next to one of the VN members also.

Who were you sitting next to? One of my friends mentioned a pro cheat sheet someone had
Title: Re: TSFX Physics 29th May, your thoughts?
Post by: onur369 on May 30, 2011, 07:48:45 pm
I was sitting next to laseredd
Title: Re: TSFX Physics 29th May, your thoughts?
Post by: cranberry on May 30, 2011, 08:21:31 pm
Haha I know how you look like then ! I was sitting next to one of the VN members also.

Who were you sitting next to? One of my friends mentioned a pro cheat sheet someone had

my mate had his epic cheat sheet from his private tutor - laminated  :idiot2:

and yeh......F'KIN HELL GREG!!....... :knuppel2:
Title: Re: TSFX Physics 29th May, your thoughts?
Post by: acrimony on May 30, 2011, 09:01:00 pm
I was calling out Rohitpi! There were so many indians and I couldn't find you :(
Title: Re: TSFX Physics 29th May, your thoughts?
Post by: thatisanote on May 30, 2011, 10:03:55 pm
is there any way you could upload this "epically awesome" cheat sheet? xD
just want to echo that ;)
Title: Re: TSFX Physics 29th May, your thoughts?
Post by: Lasercookie on May 30, 2011, 10:20:12 pm
I was calling out Rohitpi! There were so many indians and I couldn't find you :(

Was that what was being yelled out in the middle of the lecture? I think during the electronics lecture? I was trying to figure out what was being said.

I think the thing that got called out during Geoff's lecture was 'that's Naved', but Geoff misheard and thought 'one hundred' was being yelled out. I found that pretty funny.

Unless I misheard completely.
Title: Re: TSFX Physics 29th May, your thoughts?
Post by: onur369 on May 30, 2011, 10:23:19 pm
I bet someone a chocolate cake that this question will come up loll
Title: Re: TSFX Physics 29th May, your thoughts?
Post by: onur369 on May 30, 2011, 10:27:59 pm
I was calling out Rohitpi! There were so many indians and I couldn't find you :(

Was that what was being yelled out in the middle of the lecture? I think during the electronics lecture? I was trying to figure out what was being said.

I think the thing that got called out during Geoff's lecture was 'that's Naved', but Geoff misheard and thought 'one hundred' was being yelled out. I found that pretty funny.

Unless I misheard completely.

Lol that wasnt being yelled out that much, there was this constipated  guy  who was eating at the time screaming 'yeaaaa'
Title: Re: TSFX Physics 29th May, your thoughts?
Post by: pi on May 31, 2011, 06:45:12 pm
I was calling out Rohitpi! There were so many indians and I couldn't find you :(

lol, I didn't hear anything. True, so many indians do physics for some reason...

Lol that wasnt being yelled out that much, there was this constipated  guy  who was eating at the time screaming 'yeaaaa'

;D



laseredd, do you go to MHS? ???
Title: Re: TSFX Physics 29th May, your thoughts?
Post by: Lasercookie on May 31, 2011, 07:03:13 pm
laseredd, do you go to MHS? ???

Nope.

I was the guy that got called Ricky by Geoff.
Title: Re: TSFX Physics 29th May, your thoughts?
Post by: onur369 on May 31, 2011, 07:26:08 pm
Then he called you boy lolll
Title: Re: TSFX Physics 29th May, your thoughts?
Post by: pi on May 31, 2011, 10:05:08 pm
laseredd, do you go to MHS? ???

Nope.

I was the guy that got called Ricky by Geoff.

Haha, you were next to a big line of mhs guys then (next to 'Saz' probably)! I wish I had a guy like Geoff as a physics teacher, he's aweseme!
Title: Re: TSFX Physics 29th May, your thoughts?
Post by: Zien on May 31, 2011, 10:09:35 pm
^Welcome to my world. ;)