Hardest topics in Physics 3/4??????

[yesyes123]

Electricity, Light, Motion?

What is the order from hardest to easiest topic?

Is unit 3 or 4 easier?

[b^3]

Unit 3 is easier for me since it is way more maths based. Unit 4 though is theory overload!

[Comma]

Motion is the hardest, by far. The rest of the topics are pretty much equal.

I found Unit 3 harder, but that will depend on your strengths/weaknesses so it's not really going to tell you much.

[luffy]

I am probably one of a very few number of students to say this, but I find magnetism extremely difficult and hard to grasp (possibly because I find it to be the only "boring" topic in physics).

[tony3272]

I also found magnetism the hardest as well purely because it was boring (and hard to find good youtube videos for). But i think most non 'mathsy' people would possibly find motion the most difficult.

Also, b^3 and Comma; you guys need to negotiate who gets to keep Shledon. It's weird seing your profile pictures next to each other.

[pi]

I found them ALL hard, but I think that's just me.

In order from hardest --> easiest (so far)
- Electronics
- Motion
- Magnetism
- Structures and Materials (detailed)
- Sound (detailed) -note, this is still hard, just the easiest of the hard

Haven't done light yet, but it looks pretty hard

Overall, Unit 4 looks a bit easier, I really hate electronics and bloody spring potential energy

[Lasercookie]

My ranking from hardest to easiest would be:

- Electric Power (U4O1) [mixture of a lot of theory and for the most part - boring content]
- Sound (U4 - Detailed Study) [kind of boring]
- Special Relativity (U3 - Detailed Study) [pretty easy actually... the other stuff isn't that hard either]
- Motion (U3O1)
- Light and Matter (U4O2)
- Electronics and Photonics (U3O2)

Most interesting (to me) would be Light and Matter and Special Relativity.
Electronics and Photonics was extremely light weight - it didn't even feel like I learnt anything there.

Electric Power is pretty theory heavy, the right hand rule is kind of weird as well - it doesn't feel right to me (and can be awkward sitting there trying to figure out which way current is going). I haven't done too many trial exam questions yet, but the textbook questions for Electric Power are pretty damn boring.

Motion is pretty maths heavy - but pretty boring overall (in VCE Physics anyway). There are a few interesting questions out there. I think I spent too much time studying motion (my hard work didn't even pay off for the exam... ), sometimes I find myself just thinking about things Newtonian physics-wise...

Sound isn't too bad, just builds on your knowledge of waves really. Questions aren't that fun to complete for sound.

[pi]

Just a correction:

Motion is pretty maths calculator heavy - but pretty boring overall (in VCE Physics anyway).

I refuse to associate maths and VCE physics

 

[Lasercookie]

Just a correction:

Motion is pretty maths calculator heavy - but pretty boring overall (in VCE Physics anyway).

I refuse to associate maths and VCE physics

 

Touché.

I guess it really does outline how bad the course actually is - the majority of the questions are just plug given values into given equation. If VCAA could up the standard of their questions, which would have a flow on effect (I would hope anyway) of trial exams also improving their standards and also the textbooks VCE Physics would be much better off (and it's reputation for being 'difficult' would actually be justified).

Most first year books have the kind of problem solving questions I'm talking about. I don't mean to say that VCE Physics should be replaced with first year physics - just that the questions (particularly for motion) should move beyond plug and chug. It doesn't give justice to the course content (which has the potential to be quite interesting if taught properly).