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    First Year Engineering Textbooks

    Just some questions regarding textbooks: I'm doing ENGG1000, MATH1131, PHYS1131 and COMP1511 To my knowledge only Math and Phys have prescribed textbooks (please correct if wrong): The Physics Textbook (from a doc published this year) is: Fundamentals of Physics (Extended) 10th Edition...
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    Is there any reason not to take up SA-HELP?

    I understand that since the government removed the 10% HECS discount there's no reason to not take it up. I was wondering if the same can be said for SA-HELP? I can make more than the rate of inflation on it so might as well defer is my logic Sent from my A0001 using Tapatalk
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    Phys + Maths 1st year lecturers

    Am looking at potential timetables for myself and have been looking at the lecturers: My options for Phys are: Wolfe + Hamilton Dr EJ Angstmann,Dr DM Culcer I'm inclined to pick Wolfe + Hamilton just because it marginally fits my timetable better. Can someone comment on these...
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    How advisable is it to follow the recommended program structure?

    Hi, Got a guaranteed spot into Eng/Comm so am slightly looking ahead as to how I will structure my first year. The recommended program structure says to only do Engineering subjects for the first year and then only commerce for the second year. Some people who are already at university...
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    Art of Travel help

    We've been set a pretty broad question on The Art of Travel which I don't 100% get: "How does de Botton conceive of the relationship between people and landscapes?" Can anyone give me a helping hand as to possible theses (we've been told to argue that the relationship in conceived in...
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    Avoiding plot retelling

    I'm usually pretty good at avoiding retelling the plot but I'm currently doing a question in which it feels like I'm gravitating to it. The question is: An individual's perceptions of success evolve in response to the passage of time and interaction with their world. How could I...
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    Basic question re Motion

    Something really basic here (I must be missing the obvious - first day back at school) I've had to graph two graphs... One velocity vs time and the other displacement vs time squared. They are both straight line plots. Assuming this should the gradients be the same (they were based off the same...
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    Is it true that the Chem course is a bit messed up structurally?

    Quick question: I'm in year 10, top 18 boys in Science at a selective school with consistantly good marks. I'm definitely going to do 2 sciences. Rumor goes that the way the course is structured is outright strange? Has anyone else heard these rumors and can you affirm/deny them?
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    Anyone into Bleachers?

    Got into them when they started and am yet to hear of an Australian liking them? Any followers?
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    Any advice to get me through this year only?

    I've got half a year left of German until I drop it and am having a very bad time. I'm bottoming my class and am not enjoying any of my lessons. I'd love to become proficient and somewhat capable in german after learning it for 3 years but I feel as though I've fallen so far behind that I...
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    Essay Structure ENGLISH

    I'm fast approaching my year 9 annual exams and by far English is my worst subject. I'd say I'm in the top sixth of my form for every subject with the exception of English where I'm about the bottom sixth. Can someone recommend ways to structure my essays and/or paragraphs (when doing...
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