Physics 2009

[Flaming_Arrow]

Does anyone know what the curriculum is next year?

[ed_saifa]

Same except they're taking out transistors.

[Flaming_Arrow]

cool thanks
so they arent adding anything new?

[/0]

Lol transistors... didn't they add them in a few years ago?

[ed_saifa]

Lol transistors... didn't they add them in a few years ago?

I think so. The results from the exams indicated only a small percentage got them right.

[dcc]

Lol transistors... didn't they add them in a few years ago?

I think so. The results from the exams indicated only a small percentage got them right.

That and the fact that VCE level transistors has absolutely no physics involved whatsoever.  The most physics we learn in VCE electronics is ohms law, we never actually learn about how/why all these things happen, just reading graphs and drawing pretty pictures (which inherently are incorrect anyway).

[ed_saifa]

Yeah, apprently the universities wanted vce students to have some knowlege of it because the uni students found it difficult to understand as well.

[iamdan08]

Yeah electronics for me was very "just accept it because it's true" and recquired very little understanding of why something happens.

[Mao]

Yeah, apprently the universities wanted vce students to have some knowlege of it because the uni students found it difficult to understand as well.

transistors are understandably hard, but them in VCE is just plainly a JOKE

see the joke in detail: http://vcenotes.com/forum/index.php/topic,3707.0.html

with the level of understanding of electronics in VCE Physics, there is no possible way for VCAA to expect the cohort to learn it properly, so they dumbed it down to a level they thought acceptable
except that level is completely wrong, idiot, and escapes physical principles

[Flaming_Arrow]

thanks guys