Phys1901 Past Exams (2 Viewers)

[PopcornPixie]

Anyone know if there are solutions available anywhere?

 

[withoutaface]

On webct, under past exams.

 

[PopcornPixie]

Wow, thanks!



Never occured to me that the dots were clickable.

Wow. I'm so gonna fail.

I can't even do question ONE.

:|

 

[withoutaface]

Good news is you don't need to pass the exam to pass the course, and most people will have at least 30/40 for the in-semester assessments, which leaves a mark of 33% or so in the exam to pass

 

[PopcornPixie]

lol, but then they bell curve it, which means I fail again!



... I don't even understand the solutions. Wow.

 

[withoutaface]

lol, but then they bell curve it, which means I fail again!



... I don't even understand the solutions. Wow.

Afaik no course has a quota for fails, they will only scale you up.

 

[PopcornPixie]

hopefully.

*fingers crossed*


Thanks!

 

[acmilan]

If i remember my software lecturer correctly, there is a 14% maximum for Distinctions or above, I think for any other grades there is no maximum

 

[PopcornPixie]

No quota, huh? Maybe the physics staff will be nice, and pass us all. Yes, maybe...

Of course, it could also mean that the give distinctions to 14% and fail the other 86%. XD

If only I was doing fundamentals. Their paper is so nice!!

 

[Xayma]

Actually that 14% is a maximum. There is no minimum.

They could fail the entire course if no one's work was up to standard.

 

[PopcornPixie]

Actually that 14% is a maximum. There is no minimum.

They could fail the entire course if no one's work was up to standard.

*laughs*

You're a ray of sunshine, aren't you?

 

[withoutaface]

Actually that 14% is a maximum. There is no minimum.

They could fail the entire course if no one's work was up to standard.

I can so see KC doing that just to spite us.

 

[PopcornPixie]

Hmm..

Phys 1901 isnt one of them evil subjects where you have to pass the final to pass the course, is it? *alarmed*

 

[withoutaface]

Hmm..

Phys 1901 isnt one of them evil subjects where you have to pass the final to pass the course, is it? *alarmed*

No, it's not, I asked John O'Byrne.

 

[PopcornPixie]

oooh... yay!

 

[PopcornPixie]

I can't seem to remember anything I try to learn for physics, except for wave stuff, which is pretty bad, because waves is the least-covered topic.



*prepares to fail*

 

[Xayma]

That was a relaxing exam

I was suprised at the amount of people who stuffed up the last bit of 12. How hard is it to solve an exponential.

 

[PopcornPixie]

I couldn't get q 12

But I got the rest of it. =D

I think. Well, approximately got it, anyway, which means, no FAILNESS!

 

[withoutaface]

I fucked up the last part of q12, and realised how stupid I was the second I left the exam because it was just so bleedingly obvious to set cos(wt) to 1. :S

 

[nit]

how unoriginal was that paper? half the questions were taken from the phys textbook exercises and some from past papers.

eg problem 5.39 from university phys, 10.75 from same book.