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  1. KFunk

    Suicide blast in Somalia kills ministers, doctors, students

    I received this bit of news today via the International Federation of Medical Student Associations network and felt that it was a very sad bit of news. It is terrible that an already unstable country has to witness the further deaths of figures in professions like politics and medicine. BBC...
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    Welfare in the Mental Health Sector

    Below is a new article with a short argument for increased welfare in the mental health sector (which has at least some degree of economic clout). Quoted with 'freedom lovers' in mind: Whacky news source, but it had better data than some of the others I looked at: New eyes needed on...
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    Identity Is That Which Is Given - (On self-creation and cultural preservation)

    I came across an interesting essay today called Identity is That Which is Given by a public intellectual called Kenan Malik. Malik identifies tension between the desire to respect autonomous self-creation and the active preservation of culture. An extract: I found it to be an interesting...
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    Micro Black Holes

    I was just checking out the wiki page on the Large Hadron Collider to see when they are planning to get it up and running (May this year, apparently) and I found this excerpt after scrolling down the page: I was amused.
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    Castro sells out

    Personalised Adidas jacket.
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    A (better) mathematician's love letter

    The previous math love letter thread reminded of this song someone once sent me the link to on youtube: The path of love is never smooth But mine's continuous for you You're the upper bound in the chains of my heart You're my Axiom of Choice, you know it's true But lately our relation's...
  7. KFunk

    Factors influencing choice of specialty

    This is an article I came across from the Medical Journal of Australia which I thought some of the medical students on the forum might be interested in. It looks at different vocational specialty pathways available to medical graduates and what factors influence people to choose them. Here it...
  8. KFunk

    Medicine Offer Dilemma - Seeking Advice

    Hey, I'm currently overseas visiting family and I just found out that I have recieved a provisional med offer from UQ. Unfortunately the letter reached my house in NSW quite late (family in Aus has let me know right away about any important uni information) leaving me roughly a single day in...
  9. KFunk

    A large number of Forensic Practicals

    These are links to a whole lot of prac write ups which include videos of the pracs being performed. Might be handy for those of you who (like myself) have either missed pracs or not payed attention. Hope it helps: Distinguishing between alcohols using potassium dichromate Testing for...
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    Really good practical website

    I just discovered a website which is going to save my ass from the amount of pracs I either don't remember or never did. It has a prac write up and a video of the prac for each: Reaction of Cyclohexene with Bromine and Permanganate Acid catalyzed Esterification - Test for Water (formed in...
  11. KFunk

    N-nomial expansion

    I rediscovered a 'trick' today that I had found some time ago and I thought I might share it with you guys: In the expansion of (a<sub>1</sub> + a<sub>2</sub> + ... + a<sub>n</sub>)<sup>P</sup> the coefficient of...
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    Polynomial Question

    Hey guys, this is a question which Slide Rule passed on to me. It's not very difficult but I found it interesting for some reason so I thought I'd share it: Show that the remainder when the polynomial P(x) is divided by (x - a)<sup>2</sup> is P'(a)x + P(a) - a.P'(a)
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    Could I bother you for a UAI estimate?

    For the purpose of my own vein reassurance and my curiousity as to how accurate these estimate are here are my school ranks for a UAI estimate: Math ext.1....2/84 Math ext.2....1/49 Physics ........1/66 Chemistry ... 3/71 English adv...10/160 English ext1..17/49 I don't know...
  14. KFunk

    Complex inequalities

    Do you dot your axes when you graph y=x<sup>2</sup>?
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    Past HSC Q8.

    Hey guys, this is a question I just did from a past HSC paper. I'm looking at the last part of the question ( the 2<sup>1-n</sup> bit) in particular but I've written up the rest of it as a lead in. I got the answer by extrapolating the pattern, factorising and summing but the way the answer...
  16. KFunk

    UNSW UMAT scores for interview.

    Hey guys, I posted this in the MX2 forum earlier but I figured that it'd be a helpful thing to have here. This table lists "the minimum predicted UAI and actual UMAT scores that applicants needed to achieve to be offered an interview in the main round of interviews (September) over the past two...
  17. KFunk

    Umat

    It's done... any thoughts and feelings? I find it pretty hard to get a good feeling for how I went. It was certainly more difficult than the prep material I had come across.
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    Essays

    English essays suck. Discuss. [25 marks]
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    Integration Question

    I was doing a past 3/4 yearly paper from my school (2003) and the last question really stumped me. Basically it was: Evaluate &int; ln(1 +tanx) dx {between 0 and &pi;/4} (*note) in the part just before that you had to show that: &int; ln(1 +tanx) dx {between 0 and &pi;/4} = &int...
  20. KFunk

    Arts/Medicine Question

    A couple of questions: Is it possible to do more that the required 66 credit points i.e. has anyone tried to push for 84 (for a double major)? If someone is doing a major in a List A course does the combined degree allow them to then study a list B course? (can a person study mathematics...
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