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Your mass for Hydrogen is wrong, it should be 1.6739*10^-27 kg.

"Back in the day" I did Quanta to Quarks. I really wanted to do Medical Physics instead, but alas we were made to do Q2Q. Ah well, I'm making up for it now by doing a degree in Medical Radiation Physics... :)

May I suggest doing it at the University of Wollongong? Hehe, I'm in foreign teritory in these UNSW forums. I'm doing a Ba. Medical Radiation Physics at UoW. At UoW, the course is primarily aimed at Oncological Radiation Therapy and is a Physics degree at heart so perhaps it isn't what you're...

Summer (i.e. now) BMS101 Systemic Anatomy Autumn MATH201 Multivariate and Vector Calculus MATH253 Linear Algebra PHYS205 Advanced Modern Physics PHYS235 Mechanics & Thermodynamics Spring MATH291 Differential Equations PHYS215 Vibrations, Waves & Optics PHYS225...

Yeah, I decided to do anatomy over summer (due to change of degree) and I was surprised that there are plenty of people around campus. I would have thought the uni campus to have been a barren desert over summer.

Make you you read the subject outlines on WebCT (online course supplementary thing) before going to any labs/tutorials/seminars in the first week. I didn't realise that the majority of my subjects didn't have these start until week 2. :o

To stop alpha particles, there's no special precautions it's a trivial task, a sheet of paper will stop them, their penetrative power is minimal (although their ionising power is high).

Yeah, I thought it was a requirement of doing this elective to have it practically demonstrated. It was a pretty cool thing to see I must admit. Back when I was in Year 12, our Physics teacher kinda zapped himself on the high voltage electric plates above/below the petridish. It was funny...

It wasn't a bad topic when I did it last year, it was all fairly straightfoward.

I ended up with one of each: P, C, D, HD. Hmm sorta like that ice cream that comes with every flavour.

Haha, best solsmail message ever!

The p-type being on top is correct (I can't remember that question in the 2004 HSC). To quote the Tipler uni physics textbook... "When incident light strikes the p-type region, electron-hole pairs are created, resulting in a current through the load resistance [ie the external circuit]."

It sounds pretty much like my plan. It costs too much to drive the Falcon to the 'gong and back. It's a pity the trains only come every hour. Knowing my luck, I'll end up at the North Wollongong station minutes after a train has just left.

I was given an offer for Ba. Internet Science & Technology, but I have been offered Ba. Science - Photonics (my 1st preference :D).

I'll be there, been guaranteed my 1st preference too :D

When I did this assessment, I did the Anchorage (Alaska) earthquake (and the consequent tsunamis) that occured on the 27th of March, 1964. The main benefit of this was that it is very well documented both through text and illustration/photography (oh and there's a photo of a school split in...

Ot oh, I put Optical Laser, Pivotal Magnetic Read Head and Stationary Magnetic Read Head.

I don't think they expect you to take into consideration the refractive indexes of minute things. :p How do we know that the light source on spaceship Beta isn't an external light and that observer on spaceship alpha isn't measuring the speed of light through instrumentation mounted on the...

peeasoup, you have got to be joking! I seem to remember that it was one of the first things we learnt in Physics. Remember the concept of 'relativistic velocity'? Well that's why the speed of light is always constant; time dialates so that the speed of light is always constant at 2.99m/s (or...

I have received a very similar award, however it was last month and contained any participating schools from the Sutherland Shire area. However, the reception was in the evening with 'light refreshments'. My award basically states 'Vocational Education & Training Awards 2004' - 'Excellence...