Uhhh...difficult paper!
Circle Geometry was a BITCH.
CONICS WAS A BIGGER BITCH.
Did anyone else think it was toooo long? I mean - compared to 2004, 2003 it was way longer and way harder.
Or maybe its just me.
Glad its over.
For the second part, do you assume friction to have a direction and then try and find magnitude? Or it is something to do with the fact that for small angles tanA = SinA?
The first part is bookwork - no friction
Draw the diagram
Where A is the banked angle
NsinA = mv^2/r
NcosA=mg
N=mg/cosA
mg/cosA=mv^2/rsinA
v^2 = 2gtanA
v = sqrt rgtranA
Ah! Bio is the next day after Maths!
I hate this.
I'm a little bit unsure about Search for Better Health - esp the last few parts...
*sigh*
*fingers crossed*
Use the damn compass :)
Its more exact too - which is a good thing incase your diagram effects your interpretation of the question - as in the CSSA 2005 trials... when they asked for the area ....the circle only touched the axis..or something...
A topic I simple detest. Why can't we breeze through with only resisted motion? *sigh*
Anyhow - question:
A particle hangs by a light inextensible string of length a from a fixed point O, and a second particle of the same mass hangs from the first by an equal string. The whole system moves...
Its never too late! Bring on 1993.
Of course I am screwed for 4U (Not the same kind of screwed as Dumsum up there ^ who reckons 93/120 is bad - a worse kind of screwed)
This is going to be the worst or best three hours ever.
KFunk, you'll do good :)
Back to Mechanics.
Ah - unlike the two before me, i think that the paper was - fair. It wasn't easy - though they didn't fool us with text types, the questions were different - not very direct.
A good paper, (except maybe the THREE poems in Module B), but definately not the easiest since the new HSC - that...
I was so pissed!!!
However, I spoke to my English Teacher after, and she said, by 'refer to three poems' it did not mean close analysis of all three - for which there was no time. Just inculcating a third poem - by using sylistic features, recurring themes etc would have been fine.
Which...
Two or Three is the general way.
Two is all I can fit -with 2 readings + shit about context and style.
I'm freaking praying that they don't specify. If they do, I'm screwed.
We got the exemplar responses at our school as well, and some of them - especially module B - are really misleading. They're not always on the top end of the band - more likely to be a 17/20 rather than 19/20 - so you should keep that in account.
This is so because the markers pull out...