Any tips for Physics?

selling_irish · 06-06-2003 11:46pm #1

Anyone have any idea wat is likely to be coming up in physics?

slartibardfast · 06-06-2003 11:56pm

Light was nearly completly absent from last year, so we should be getting a section a question on light. Possibly the diffraction grating one at worst. (There's only about four!)

if you do partical physics option, I guess what didn't come up last year will this year(extreemly small section and 50% came up 2002)

Good luck, we need it

PHB · 07-06-2003 12:00am

Know every single mandatory experiment and the particle physics option perfectly and you will pass, after that work on eveyrthing else.

Section A should be 120 marks for everyone!!!

In the mandatory there are 5 sections,
Light
Sound
Heat
Electricity
Motion

Light didnt come up last year so you should probably know all 4/5 of those.

Then again theres only 28 or something and they are mostly the same, just do all the past paper questions on them!!

Delphi91 · 07-06-2003 2:19pm

Originally posted by PHB
Know every single mandatory experiment and the particle physics option perfectly...and you will pass

This is not a very wise strategy!

Let me quote a piece from a Department of Education circular about the new physics course:

...At Higher level, the syllabus contains two options - Applied Electricity and Particle Physics. A question MAY (my emphasis) be included on the Higher level examination paper to assess these options...

So, when it comes to teaching the course, I have to decide on which option to teach. But at the end of the day, the decision to include a question on the options is itself optional for the Inspector setting the exam!!

Put very simply, there is NO guarantee of a question on the option sections on the paper.

Mike

Delphi91 · 07-06-2003 2:29pm

Originally posted by PHB
...Light didnt come up last year...

Originally posted by slartibardfast
...Light was nearly completly absent from last year...

Higher Level Paper: Q7 and Q12(b)

Ordinary Level Paper: Q3 and Q7

You might want to check your papers again!!

Mike

^whitey^ · 07-06-2003 2:36pm

You might want to check your papers again!!

I think they were talking about Section A Delphi

Shelliestar · 07-06-2003 3:35pm

Last year they asked latent heat of fusion of ice in section A and there was nothing about heat in section B so i think this year therell be a long question on heat, maybe like the one that was on one of the sample papers about the tempature change in a room with the pot of water or somethign like that. Also wavelength of monochromatic light as it was on all the mocks (i think) and maybe resistivy as that came up in two mock papers in section A.
Other the that i ain't sure.

slartibardfast · 07-06-2003 7:56pm

I was indeed speaking of section a.

Here(physics.gif, sorry html seems disabled, would have made an nice table:() is an analysis of section a based on Folens exam papers. It apears that mechanics and electricy are compusory while heat, light and sound are interchangeable.

PHB · 07-06-2003 8:28pm

I was indeed talking about section a.

Also both my grinds teacher and my school teacher asked the department and they were told that the option will come up for the first 3 years.

CuLT · 08-06-2003 12:30am

Originally posted by slartibardfast
I was indeed speaking of section a.

Here(physics.gif, sorry html seems disabled, would have made an nice table:() is an analysis of section a based on Folens exam papers. It apears that mechanics and electricy are compusory while heat, light and sound are interchangeable.

P.S. It's four kilobytes

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