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Actually I think that Kerbal Space Program would be a great teaching aid for high school space/orbital physics, because by dropping some of the realism of Orbiter it really gets to the important concepts

I did ask the mods to sticky it, but they said they had a backlog and they'd get to it, and next thing I knew the request was closed...not sure what happened

There is enough information :) I'm not 100% sure about how you would go about solving it using HSC physics equations. The mathematics way of doing this problem is: Suppose that the stone is dropped at time t=0. Let the balloon velocity be v_0. The stone starts out at a height x=10*v_0 (the...

Maybe they don't teach this clearly enough in HSC, but when it comes to 'feeling' force, you don't feel gravity. The reason, I suppose, is that you don't feel any force along a free-fall trajectory (neglecting friction). The reason you 'feel' weight on Earth is because you are *not* in free...

If it is a frictionless road, then friction between the internal parts of the car won't matter. You can see this by imagining the car sliding on the frictionless road without the wheels turning or any other parts within the car moving- it will keep sliding until an external force acts on it. For...

Hi everyone, thanks for all your positive comments :) Now that it is time for trials, if you haven't already had a look at the guide I would highly recommend taking a few minutes to click on the link. Some schools have been using my guide as a teaching aid, but they were really written with...

I don't find this explanation plausible. You are correct that B corresponds to the 'magnetic flux density'. However, phi depends on A, because phi is measuring the amount of magnetic flux going through the loop. B is a property of the external field, and isn't changing. When you change the area...

These are interesting questions. Q1. I don't think this is a very good question. Why? Because normal stars *do* move. This is why you can take long-exposure photos like this http://www.astropix.com/HTML/I_ASTROP/TRIPOD/TRIPOD2.HTM - it is just a result of the Earth rotating. However, the whole...

Yeah, I think the problem is that they come up with the verbs planning special definitions for them, but then write some of the dotpoints in a more normal colloquial sense- like these particular dotpoints make sense just reading them as plain sentences (discuss = 'talk about')

This comes up time and time again- not all 'discuss' dotpoints need advantages and disadvantages. Some of them (like these ones) just require a detailed explanation. Just use common sense to decide which dotpoints fit into this category. Exactly the same deal as your other thread about "Assess...

I don't think this needs disadvantages, they are looking more for your understanding of how Einstein's work shaped future developments in quantum theory. So you would need to explain in what way future development utilized Einstein's results and thus evaluate the consequence of Einstein's...

This is a strange question- I don't understand why the resulting force acting on the astronaut is different to the upwards force exerted by the chair. Why? Because when the rocket is sitting on the ground, the chair is already exerting an upwards force of mg (reaction force of gravity). So the...

You've just listed the main differences. Btw silicon solid state devices *are* the convention today, you should probably refer to valves etc. as thermionic devices. Compared to thermionic devices, silicon devices have - Better heat dissipation (less waste heat) - Stronger - Longer expected...

Also, you have to remember that the emission of radiation constitutes energy loss from the heated object. That is, if you heat an object so that it is glowing *and* at a constant temperature, then the amount of energy you are putting in to keep it hot must be same as the amount of energy it is...

You need to think carefully about the key verb in this dotpoint- in this case, 'assess'. You've correctly identified that this is similar to a 'discuss' dotpoint, except you need to make a conclusion at the end. However, it is important to remember that not all 'discuss' dotpoints have arguments...

Well if it was a curve, it wouldn't be a 'line' of best fit! A line of best fit is necessarily going to be a straight line...'curve fitting' is the more general case, of which line fitting is a subset. You can fit any function you like to data, but to get a line of best fit you choose the...

Hi everyone, The Student's Guide to HSC Chemistry is a full study guide that was sold over the last couple of years to many schools in the state, including Sydney Boys' High School, North Sydney Girls High, St Ignatius College, Newington College, Barker College, and many more (in fact, some...

Hi everyone, The Student's Guide to HSC Physics is a full study guide I wrote that was sold over the last couple of years to many schools in the state, including Sydney Boys' High School, North Sydney Girls High, St Ignatius College, Newington College, Barker College, and many more (in fact...

We've got to stay until the end of week 8, whenever that it. And we've got an exam week 8! (for class placement in maths next year)

Does it really matter what 凍鴛鴦 said or what subjects she chose? You didn't need to make any comment, and in any case, the words you chose are too harsh for you to simply say later "haha theres nothing wrong". Keep such opinions to yourself. Not everybody found the test easy, but by the same...