Spec's relation to physics

[pariah]

I've seen a few times on various threads that physics helps spec, or spec helps physics, and I'm wondering, what are the specific parts of the two courses that overlap (is their anything substantial)?  I'm not doing physics, and my teachers said that it would not affect spec at all (in fact, at my school, the guys who get 45+ for spec usually don't do physics), so i just want to know whether or not i made the right choice (swapping physics for lit)
thx.

[/0]

Well there are a few chapters on mechanics in spec, which is a pretty major part of physics, in fact I think it makes up about half of the physics exam. But I guess it doesn't matter that much because you won't go very much in-depth into mechanics in spec.

[Toothpaste]

I'm one of the few doing specialist maths without physics at my school. I can tell you that there's no huge disadvantages. In year 11 my friends knew the forces/kinematics/vectors stuff before me, but it doesn't make much difference anyway. General maths was a bludge, seriously. Apparently specialist maths helps physics more, or so I've heard.

[cara.mel]

Apparently specialist maths helps physics more, or so I've heard.

The stuff that overlaps is in physics U3, is done in like term 3 of spec. So physics helps spec 100x more due to the order they appear =D (but then, I didn't do this 'spec 1/2' thing)
The only thing about vectors that carrys over to spec is knowing wth they are, how to add them head to tail etc. That's it
For me, most of term 3 in spec was bludgy because of it, there weren't that many new things =D

If you remember from science straight line motion, and F=ma etc, then that's all really that will help you

[/0]

I'm one of the few doing specialist maths without physics at my school. I can tell you that there's no huge disadvantages. In year 11 my friends knew the forces/kinematics/vectors stuff before me, but it doesn't make much difference anyway. General maths was a bludge, seriously. Apparently specialist maths helps physics more, or so I've heard.

You learn about vectors in general maths in year 11... don't you?

[pariah]

Thanks, I thought that the kinematics related stuff was the only thing that was relevant. i don't really expect spec to be too hard, coz all of general (advanced, or whatever u want to call the lead-in to spec) is pretty easy (just working through the text), and methods 3/4 is also alright ; it seems as if the hardest part is not screwing up and making careless mistakes (i've just been going through the chapters of the 3/4 text that aren't just repeats of 1/2 material, and really, no hard new stuff appears)

[Toothpaste]

I'm one of the few doing specialist maths without physics at my school. I can tell you that there's no huge disadvantages. In year 11 my friends knew the forces/kinematics/vectors stuff before me, but it doesn't make much difference anyway. General maths was a bludge, seriously. Apparently specialist maths helps physics more, or so I've heard.

You learn about vectors in general maths in year 11... don't you?

Yep you do. That's why I said my friends who do physics knew it before I did in general maths.
Easy stuff.

[kido_1]

I personally don't like physics. But I love Spec Maths.
I know that Kinematics ties in with spec and physics, but other than that if you don't like physics than don't do it.

[joechan521]

you did the right choice if you liked literature more,
my maths teacher said, people doing physics will sometimes do a specialist question with a physics approach, therefore the physics knowledge can even confuse you!
and students that did not learn physics will always answer questions in specialist way.
So physics is not needed!

however, doing both method and specialist helps