Physics without units 1/2

[randOm.dude]

I really need some direction here! I've spoken to a few teachers and they said it is fine.
But, I really want some opinions from those who have or are doing it.
I haven't done either unit 1 or 2 physics, and I don't know if it is possible to do in year 12 without them.
What do you think?  And is anybody else in the same boat?

[Lasercookie]

Yes you can do it quite easily.

Unit 1 & 2 Physics isn't really needed for Unit 3 & 4.
You pretty much learn motion from scratch in Unit 3.
Electronics in U3 there's a bit of assumed knowledge, but it's just really basic stuff that the teacher will probably review anyway (you may have even covered the stuff in Year 9 and 10).
Unit 2 light is pretty irrelevant to light in Unit 4.

So yeah, you are in no way disadvantaged by not doing Units 1 & 2.

Go for it. It's a good subject.

[randOm.dude]

Thanks, that relaxes me a heap! But my teacher is a little dodgy... he is the type that knows that stuff well, but can't present to his class.

Any other opinions are still welcome about physics!

[Lasercookie]

Thanks, that relaxes me a heap! But my teacher is a little dodgy... he is the type that knows that stuff well, but can't present to his class.

Any other opinions are still welcome about physics!

Judging from what other people have posted on AN before, most physics teachers seem to be dodgy lol.
I wouldn't worry about not being able to learn the content from your teacher, there's more than enough resources around.
In the end, most of the real understanding will not come from your teacher. I doubt there would be any physics teacher that could fully cover the whole course so that you understand everything. A lot of it will be small realisations that will just click - a teacher can't force that kind of understanding.

[randOm.dude]

Thanks 

You should be given an award or something for most concerned and caring user on this forum!I'm actually looking forward to doing it right now!

One question...how easy are cheat sheet creations for you?

[Lasercookie]

One question...how easy are cheat sheet creations for you?

Cheat sheets are pretty easy, though I don't go to an insane effort to make a really good one. To be honest I didn't really look at my cheat sheet during the exam.

For the Unit 3 exam I wrote mine up maybe three weeks earlier. I just had some formulas that weren't on the formula sheet but were in the textbook and then a few definitions. About ~1 page was dedicated to Motion, half a page to Special Relativity (the detailed study), and the other half to electronics and photonics. As I went through trial exams I took off stuff I didn't refer to and added stuff I struggled with. I'll probably take the same approach for this next exam.

For sacs my teacher usually allows 1 page (depending on the sac though). For the motion sac I just had formulas and a few odd points to serve as reminders, for electronics it was a practical sac - no cheat sheet, and for special relativity we had 1 page, again just formulas and definitions. From what we've done in Unit 4 so far, I wrote up a decent cheat sheet for Light and Matter, really just explaining a few intricacies for each of the phenomena and for the first part of the Electric Power sac just definitions and for the second part I just used the first page from the iTute Unit 4 cheat sheet.

But yeah, cheat sheets aren't really something I go to a large effort for. With all of my SACs I've made the cheat sheet the day before (or in the morning or 15 minutes before the sac...).

There were other users on here that had insane cheatsheets. In particular Onur's, I think he may have uploaded a picture of it here, it was crazy. He showed it to me when I sat next to him at the TSFX revision lecture (what are the odds that you would end up next to an AN member lol) and my jaw literally dropped. I think it may have been lost in the upgrade, but Killerkob had some really good cheat sheets, I based mine off those ones. They weren't crammed with information, really just the minimal information needed.

[onur369]

How I knew my cheatsheet will be talked about, just to inform AN members I will make a cheatsheet for all to use

[appianway]

It's fine. I skipped Unit 1 in 2008 and scored 50 in 2009. Don't stress.