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The argument was not whether one should use a calculator or not. Rather they were questioning my ability to do HSC Physics without one and that I wont get full marks in the HSC if I am off by a few d.p. (both of which were basically proven wrong), both of which are definitely not subjective...

Hey, at least I didn't cheat in any of my Physics assessments :P (or any assessments for that matter in any subject) By the way I wanna go to your tutoring for Physics. Hit me up with details. :) You should write a book... Here's the thing. *sigh* As I've said this many many times, in HSC...

This is not HSC English. Kindly, quit with the BS. Read the previous pages. It's exactly what these people have been doing: ie. saying that I'm wrong. Why can't I now teach them a lesson and say to them blow it back in their face? There was no ego to begin with. It only started because people...

Really? :P Who are you trying to convince? I think the evidence up there is crystal clear. Why don't you lead by example and learn to back down when you're wrong :P Also learn to do calculations without using a calculator whilst you're at it :P If no one gives a "slightest shit" to my teacher...

As I've said before... Personal preference. I find that it actually takes me more time to use a calculator, and I find it too hard to be honest. Anyway I think 'Helper' in his (or her) wisdom has pretty much summed up and ended this argument. Next time maybe you people should consider that you...

Pot calling the kettle black much? No, if he cubed 'r' then he would've gotten the correct answer. Note that I said he was finding 'T', the period. It's only wrong if he/she knows that the student is unable to make calculations without using a calculator. You still haven't explained how I've...

He was a senior marker in the HSC too, if you read my previous post.

Prove it. But it has never happened. How would you explain that? And explain the example I provided before about someone forgetting to cube 'r' in Kepler's laws and me getting that question correct in our HSC trials (without using a calculator). No, my teacher is not wrong as he seldom uses a...

He actually is... He got alot of the (ie. content) stuff cut out of the course during the proposals for a new course before 2001 as he knew someone quite high up in the BOS back then.

What the hell are you talking about? Where was I putting them down? My point was that if you do 3U mathematics you have to do 2U aswell, which involves using your calculator for loan repayments etc. Obviously in 3U/4U it's a bit more theoretical than that. And I think my Physics teacher, who...

I kind of disagree. You see with HSC level Physics if you round to the nearest sig fig or 2 sig fig correctly then it's fine, which is what I do in most of calculations. I've never come across a question where it says find the "exact value" or "correct to 4 d.p." etc, because they're not...

Rose Bay... should only take you a few days to get here. Cya soon matey :skip:

How long did it take you to figure that one out? Did you have to use a calculator for that? :P and then that makes you asshole^n where n--> infinity which approaches infinity (without using a calculator :) )

Prove it. Umm excuse me? But he is the troll who decided to start this about calculators. No, I did not right down that sqrt of 69 is somewhere between 8 and 9. I would've written down 8, because I know that it is closer to 8 than 9. I was just illustrating how I do it. You also have to...

Sorry Mr Addikaye or w/e the hell your name is. I don't know why people have such a big problem that I don't use a calculator. Big deal, get over it, not everyone is good at using one...

lol, I just realised that you only did MX1. Enough said :spin:

Are you a westie? :P If my teacher = knob , then you = (knob)^n where n approaches infinity.:skip:

203250112i Lemme tell you something. I'm ranked about 2nd at my school for Physics ;) My Physics teacher used to be a senior marker for the HSC and he says its fine... he also has never used a calculator for Physics and he used to teach the OLD course, which was more numerical. So make your...

*sigh* ....as I said earlier at HSC level it doesn't matter aslong as you've shown all working...

Coming to think of it a bit more, here's the actual method that I used in the HSC exam. 0.00002 = 20*10^-6 sqrt20 is about 4.5 (since 16*1 1/4 = 20 and \sqrt16=4 , and \sqrt(5/4) is about 2.2/2 = 1.1) and 1/10^6 = 1/10^3 (NB: \sqrt5 is a little bit more than 2.2) so simply \sqrt(0.00002) =...