Recent content by machiavel

The Arnold 4U text (you may know it as the Cambridge 4U) has an excellent integration page at the beginning of Chapter 5. Ignore the ax ones and memorise the f(x) ones. You can also treat integration as a Riemann sum if you really don't get it...

Stuff whether they are in the syllabus or not. I would definitely memorise them for use in integration with trig fns. It's dead easy anyway: sin uses different fns in each product, so use the same sign, whereas cos uses the same fns and different signs. Maybe this makes more sens if you look...

*cheers* At last an essay that isn't about Antony and Cleopatra. Essentially their relationship was an enormous prpoagamda weapon for the boni/optimates because: *They could portray Cleopatra as an eastern barbarian who corrupted Caesar * Caesar was keeping Roman legions abroad and fighting in...

This might be seriously late, but: For Gaius Marius I would *avoid* websites. Seriously. It's almost as bad as looking for stuff on Gaius Julius Caesar on the web because everyone pushes their own interpretation and it's difficult to see what their sources are. I would try *...

Is this for Latin or Ancient Hist.? (*whacks self* Ignore that - I didn't see the thread index.) The optimates (also 'boni' i.e. 'the good men') were ultraconservatives who blocked the motions of the senate made by the more moderate populares, so the two parties' major function was - to be...

Re: Distinction Courses: Interest and discussion on the proposed cancellation of cour Not necessarily. DC entry depends on whether your school allows acceleration. For example I did Cosmology in 2006 despite Ascham not allowing acceleration: I simply submitted the form along with a letter...

scisne TNguyen emmendatum scribere ut fortes linguam latinam turpissimam dicant esse?

Any 4A people? Catullan wedding songs (that looks hard) and selections from Ovid? I'll be the (hopefully not dumb :p) blonde with glasses. The bookstall always has excellent grammar books (a must for HSC & uni), but the more interesting history ones are always $70-150. Too expensive for me!

What were the unseens for this year? Ours (2006) were very simple, particularly the Virgil (although there was a nasty nom/abl choice in the last line). Last year's exam _really_ didn't prepare me for the leap to uni exams. If you thought grammar was bad now...

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The British Council just sent me round in circles. :burn: I tried applying for the Maths Tripos at Cambridge, which is a bachelor's in maths+phys+comp. sci., but their prerequisite is a distinction-equivalent in the STEP Maths II & III or HD in I & II. 2 problems: a) STEP I Q1 is like the...

USyd has a manjor in computational science, which seems to be about using IT to solve physics problems. Is this as useful as doing a IT minor in DBMS? I can't do a full IT major b/c I have to do 24cp maths and 12+cp of phys in each sem. of 3rd year. So do I do the applied comp sci or the...

Has anyone done 3rd year COSC? If so, is it worth doing the 1st year subjects, or can I just learn C in the summer hols without a problem? Damn cosc in C clashes in EVERY session....

What's the night viewing assigment like? I'm thinking of doing astronomy but my vision is shite, so I'd probably fail the assignment.

Are the stats units worth doing for physics majors? I have to major in maths and it looks like I'll end up majoring in physics instead of COSC. I'm not planning to do research as a long-term career, so could I manage with MATH1904 instead of doing STAT2911/2912 (models & tests) etc etc?