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How lenient are they with counting squares on a graph?

Asked by Blakhitman on this post How about if you're counting squares (area of a graph), I seem to suck at doing that. Is there more lenience in that instance? This is with r …
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Is VCE Physics A ‘Hard Subject’?

As far as subject difficulty, how hard is VCE Physics?
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Voltage divider with an extra load [closed]

Does Chapter 4 question 2b imply that there is another resister in addition to the single one shown in the diagram (a standard voltage divider with r1 = 2.2k ohms and r2=4.4k ohms …
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Significant figures in physics

Do we need to consider significant figures in physics like we do in VCE chemistry. Or, will they specify a number of decimal places instead?
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How close to the ‘suggested solutions’ should an answer be?

Do they always give lenience in physics answers since they don't have significant figure guide like chemistry and in your working out you don't know how many decimal places to take …
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Do we write down the uncertainty in Practical Work (pracs)

Are we supposed to write the multimeter error next to every reading we make in our practical work?
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Is non-uniform Circular Motion in the course?

Lets settle this once and for all: Many respectable past VCE physics students have said non-circular motion is not on the course. However, my textbook has devoted a good amount of …
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Is the Jacplus (Jacaranda eBooks) website unfinished?

They are a publisher of VCE textbooks. Is the Jacplus website incomplete? As in, are the textbooks only partially there by chapter and are added to gradually by the Jacaranda staf …
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Physics Gravity constant

Why is it that we are told to use g=10, when in reality g is closer to 9.8, does this not make our least accurate piece of information only a single significant figure? It just see …
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Why is my working out incorrect: Jacaranda Physics 2

I refer to: Question 6b of Chapter 2, in Jacaranda Physics 2 A car of mass 1500 kg travelling due west at a speed of 20 ms-1 on an icy road collides with a truck of mass 2000 k …
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Is impulse conserved during a collision?

Question Regarding momentum, what is the fundamental purpose of airbags, collapsible steering wheels and padded dashboards in passenger vehicles? Answer: To increas …
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Is centripetal force always the net force?

Is the value we can work out to be the Centripetal Force according an equation, always the same value as the net force? I am referring to non-uniform circular motion type question …
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What percentage of kinetic energy is transformed into other forms of energy?

Two cars traveling at 5m/s collide head on and lock together. Straight after the collision the wreckage is traveling left and 1.5m/s I reached a dead end since I had the …
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Could you explain the “skin effect”?

I'm having a lot of difficulty understanding the "skin effect" in physics. Would you be able to explain it to me? I believe a diagram would help me a lot, but youtube and teacher …
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Conversion of milliamps to amps

Regarding the conversion of units in physics, when converting milliamps to amps: Is 4.0 mA the same as 0.004A?

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