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    list of big words

    does what? does relate to english?
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    list of big words

    that doesnt appear in Encarta and WordGenius electronic dictionary and the paper-based Oxford dictionary I have. altough it's listed in dictionary.com as follows (mm do u say as follow or as follows?) 1 entry found for antidisestablishmentarianism. Main Entry: antidisestablishmentarianism...
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    list of big words

    >> considering you are of non-english speaking background, perhaps you shoudlnt deliberately put in long words just for effect. It often wont fit into your sentence and just makes the whole essay look pretentious. << Okay, for native english speakers then... (Ive magically changed myself into...
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    diffraction!!

    >> you dont need to go into detail for this point << I know that.. but it doesn't (didn't) make sense for me because the diagram in x-ray.bmp seems to show reflection textbook should say that (the absorption thing) so that x-ray diff becomes less confusing... at least to me. Thanks :)
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    thesis??

    isn't the thesis or topic usually given in the question??
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    list of big words

    does anyone have a list of big and flowery words for use in exams? esp for ppl with non english background like me...
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    is paper 1 marked by standard/adv/etc

    Will markers have different expectations or marking criteria for students doing Standard, Adv, ext1, etc? should I write "English AOS" in the exam booklet so that they won't know which course I'm doing, to make sure that subjective marking and expectation doesnt come into play?
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    mydoom

    how reliable is your teacher??
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    diffraction!!

    >> A light source will continue to be diffracted, (ie the diagram on the right) until the angle made by the diffraction grating and the light source has reached what we call a 'critical angle'(?) This angle is depended on the type of material that the light is passing through. Once this critical...
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    probability....

    that makes it really easy ^^
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    mydoom

    >> But i usually held the view that all these anti-virus companies (Norton, Mcafee) create these virus' << I think I've heard that from somewhere =p avert stinger.. thats only for virus detection right? hmm... spywareblaster isnt as good as it used to be.. the loading of the database (eg...
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    diffraction!!

    my point is not about the symmetrical thing (I dont know how to draw symmetrical lines on the left one) my confusion is: whether the light goes through the grating or crystal (as in the right diagram) or gets reflected back to the direction where it comes from (as in the left diagram) and...
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    Naming CFCs

    probably something like 2-methyl-4-ethyloctane?
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    maths at uni

    I think there is positive infinity and negative infinity... for example, you want to examine how a particular curve behaves on the very left of the coordinate axis.. you take the lim as x approaches negative infinity... and (I think), if you draw 1/x^2 on a computer graphing program and look...
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    mydoom

    is everyone getting the mydoom virus removal when you go to windowsupdate? if not then my PC might be infected, as microsoft says :D
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    diffraction!!

    Can somebody help me pls...? Which one is occuring in a diffraction of light by diffraction grating and/or of x-rays by a crystal? pls see "which one.bmp" and tell me the correct situation. (the lines there are rays) If it is the one on the right hand side, can you explain me what's...
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    probability....

    A question from Cambridge: the probability that a jackpot prize will be won in a given lottery is 0.012. the jackpot prize is initially $10,000 and increass by $10,000 each time the prize is not won. Find, to 5 decimal places, the probability that the jackpot prize will exceed $200,000 when it...
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    maths at uni

    I think that booklet should be distributed to (each student at) your school. hmm.. maybe not all schools.. my school as actually a private school. It does say RRP $15.00 and it might be available from newsagency yeah, Im glad science doesnt include maths ^^ To Estel: none of those...
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    UAI mark & rank

    Will somebody's SC marks be taken into account in determining UAI? (so if he/she did really poor on SC, the UAI will be poor)
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    maths at uni

    so... can the integral be approximated? with today's technology it should be able to. btw... "eng2u adv, math 4u, chem, phys, bio, chinese bs" too much science ^^ btw the UAI booklet says that only 6 units of science can be counted.. but I dont think there are any other science subjects...
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