Question from 9.1 in syllabus (1 Viewer)

[yasminee96]

As i was going through the skills section of the Physics HSC syllabus, I came across one dot point that I would be absolutely screwed for if it came up tomorrow.

"12.3 gather information from secondary sources by:

e) identifying practising male and female Australian scientists, and the areas in
which they are currently working and information about their research"

Does anyone have any information on this?
I know it's unlikely for them to ask on this, but I guess the Board reserves the right to ask it, and it's better to be safe than sorry.

If anyone could provide me any information on this, it would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

 

[Randox]

LOL no idea. Not in my textbook...

 

[hjed]

You just need to google a male and a female scientist who is currently practising and is Australian. Its a possible 6marker like the Werhna Von Brown and Edison/Westinghouse questions

 

[yasminee96]

LOL no idea. Not in my textbook...

Thanks anyway haha

You just need to google a male and a female scientist who is currently practising and is Australian. Its a possible 6marker like the Werhna Von Brown and Edison/Westinghouse questions

Would you know if theyve asked it before?

...and who's Werhna Von Brown :|

Edit: I did Goddard haha.

 

[xxcc]

Can't really seem to find any good information for this...

 

[HowToNoob101]

Isnt this the one where you just have to know the contributions of a scientist? And yes it has been asked before, but only a 3 marker if I remember correctly.
Goddard:
-Prove rockets would work in vacuum and did not need air to propel against
-Developed a rocket motor which uses petrol and liquid oxygen
-Launched the first liquid propelled rocket
-His work was utilised by the German scientists to develop war time rockets

 

[Fizzy_Cyst]

Nope.

The scientist MUST be Australian, currently practicing and you must know male and female!

Isnt this the one where you just have to know the contributions of a scientist? And yes it has been asked before, but only a 3 marker if I remember correctly.
Goddard:
-Prove rockets would work in vacuum and did not need air to propel against
-Developed a rocket motor which uses petrol and liquid oxygen
-Launched the first liquid propelled rocket
-His work was utilised by the German scientists to develop war time rockets

 

[yasminee96]

Can't really seem to find any good information for this...

Same :/

Nope.

The scientist MUST be Australian, currently practicing and you must know male and female!

Who can we research haha?

 

[Tacoo]

That was part of the in-class syllabus, kinda like you had to get your pracs checked off to say you'd done them. They won't test you on it as they'll only test you on Space, Motors and Gen, Ideas to impl, and the one of your choosing. Don't stress xD

 

[ocatal]

There are a few Australian physicists here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Australian_physicists

Not much information about their areas of research though :/

 

[omgiloverice]

Just make it up on the test.... i doubt the markers will actually be bothered to check whether or not the person exists

 

[hjed]

They could test on it, they test over dot points like describing a prac. My teacher said to google one (hint: CSIRO website has bios on all their scientists)

 

[yasminee96]

http://www.kotara-h.schools.nsw.edu...6403100_19eb9eeb2b17557f012b56a1ce6c3fb8.docx

woo! found some info!


And Tacoo, they can assess you on anything from the syllabus, and 9.1 is the first section of the HSC Physics syllabus! So although most of the skills are covered within all your pracs and second hand stuff, there are still a few that aren't, such as male and female current Australian physicists...

 

[panda15]

Man. If they ask this, 99% of the state is absolutely fucked...

 

[Squar3root]

make it up like i did lol. i bullshitted one whole page of my study notes, now of which I am selling lol. the marker/s don't check. we had one in our trials "evaluate the impact of an australian scientist in the research field of physics, or something like that" (4 marks) and i got 4/4