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  1. alcalder

    2 short questionaires

    Occupation: Mother, Teacher, Author Age: 37 Gender: Female Suburb: Of Sydney near Ryde Religion: Anglican Christian Ethnic Background: Anglo Aussie 1. Where do you normally look for news? Radio 2. What is your main source of news? Television or radio 3. Which source of media do you...
  2. alcalder

    2 short questionaires

    Desensitisation in Australia Where Does Empathy Lie? 1. Age: 37 2. Sex: Female 3. Cultural background: Anglo Aussie 4. Were you born in Australia? Yes 5. If you could solve one issue which directly affects you, or will directly affect you in the near future, which would it...
  3. alcalder

    plz do my survey will take u 2 minutes!

    How old are you? 37 Female 1.How old were you when you had your first alcoholic drink? 7 perhaps 2. In a regular week how many alcoholic drinks would you have? 3 or4 4. Do you think it is easy for kids under 18 to get hold of alcohol? If yes why? Yes. Storeholders are not careful about who...
  4. alcalder

    CAFS IRP questionaire plz fill out (i really need boys to aswell)

    �Female How old are you �36-45 1. How many children have you had? In what years? 2 children: 1996, 1999 2. Is this the desired number of children you wanted to have? If not how many children would you like to have? Not really. Any that came. 3. If answered no above...
  5. alcalder

    HEELLPP infomation systems hw

    OK, some help in understanding exactly what you are doing. Which dot point does this question address? How much detail do you need to go into? It does say briefly describe but what I mean is, how tiny are we going here: resistors, capacitors, diodes and the components or are we talking about...
  6. alcalder

    You *know* you're a physics nerd when...

    The idea of doing hours of Physics questions fills you with excitement and not dread. You read Wikipedia on an unrelated topic and find yourself perusing physics topics nonetheless. You push a trolley around a supermarket and envisage the vector forces acting on the trolley in order to make...
  7. alcalder

    Urgent Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Hi there. Don't panic. Do you know about Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)?? It comes in many languages and is a great place to start looking. Even if the info there is not enough, the Wiki pages usually have links to more information. There is also Google (it knows...
  8. alcalder

    Help, Please!

    Hi Sorrow, I feel for you. A few words of advice (which you can promptly ignore if you want). I agree, don't stress. You know why you did badly, so don't do it again. make sure you don't procrastinate (see my Avvie <--- *snigger*) and study as you go along. Also, don't put so much stress on...
  9. alcalder

    Don't know what I'm doing...

    Wallflower, that is a very good point. There are a few things you can do to help: - do writing workshops that will help you improve your technique (if you are serious about writing try the NSW Writer's Centre, they have lots of workshops) - let someone else read your stuff and make sure it is...
  10. alcalder

    too late to change preferences?

    A representative from UAC was on 2BL (ABC Radio Sydney 702) this morning and gave some advice for people like you. Accept the offer. Reorder and/or change your preferences, make changes if you like, and then wait for the remaining 5 smaller rounds of offers. This way you do not leave yourself...
  11. alcalder

    Teaching Physics at School

    These skills should be, essentially, tested during in-school assessment tasks. The teacher should be setting the practical tasks in order to assess these skills and should also be observing you as you do the practical in order to check certain other skills. There may also be written questions...
  12. alcalder

    building a motor

    Am I a lenient marker?? I'm a fair marker. If there are criteria set (which there are these days) it is fairly easy to say which is worth a certain number of marks. However, there is also no reason to demoralise a class of Physics students just for the sake of making Physics seem hard. I ask...
  13. alcalder

    building a motor

    Yes, the electromagnet around the rotating coil is another coil solenoid. Exactly. The direction of the current flow depends on whether you have negative or positive touching the end of the wire. Make sure you have the commutator swicth over in the right place of the turning coil (ie when the...
  14. alcalder

    Don't know what I'm doing...

    Indeed, Glitterfairy is right. Very few people write like JK Rowling, who seems to plan out each chapter and knows exactly where she is going. Most authors (including me) have a general idea, but in the end, when you know your characters well enough they do write the story for you, reacting in...
  15. alcalder

    I've screwed up physics already

    The trick to answering the written questions is to know what they are looking for in terms of the keys words. Once you have that formula you can crack those questions. ie. Discuss, Compare etc. Get the marking criteria from previous exams and you will see what examiners are expecting for those...
  16. alcalder

    Mathematical Induction

    Firstly, the question doesn't seem to make sense. If n>=2 then the equation is invalid because there is (n-3) in there. And if n=2, the number of ways is negative. Also, what does it mean by the "maximum number of lines joining two points"? The maximum number of lines that can join two points...
  17. alcalder

    Teaching Physics at School

    Not in every school. Two I taught at this year still had blackboards!
  18. alcalder

    Teaching Physics at School

    As a teacher of physics and one who has observed many different ways of teaching Physics these are some that come to mind: - Hand out the syllabus, get the students to research the entire thing and read the notes in class (the way I was taught and it was hard hard work) - Hand out photocopied...
  19. alcalder

    Truth in 'Animal Farm'

    Not so much of "long" ;) :rofl:
  20. alcalder

    Truth in 'Animal Farm'

    Animal Farm is a fantastic book to look at the manipulation of truth. If I remember when I studied it, Orwell is showing how the utopian ideal of communism is correupted and manipulated as words and truth are twisted. Look at the slogans that are first written on the barn. Then look at how they...
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