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Physics VCE Unit 3 Online Podcrammers™
Rickard, Greg Et Al
ISBN: 9780733991332 RRP inc. GST: $16.95
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These innovative audio study guides for VCE students are designed with flexibility in mind. Experienced VCE teachers take students through the Key Knowledge Areas of the Study Design in an easy-to-follow interview format.
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Each Podcrammer is divided into structured tracks that contain the essential information for VCE students.
 
Each track is broken into the following parts: 
  • Introduction
  • Interview with a subject expert, explaining key concepts in easy-to-understand terms, focusing on a Key Knowledge Area of the Study Design
  • Question-and-answer section to check students knowledge
  • Glossary of key terms that support the knowledge being covered.
Ideal for: 
  • Exam preparation and revision
  • Consolidating the learning of Key Knowledge Areas of the Study Design
  • Flexible study – anywhere, anytime!
  • VCE Podcrammers also include BONUS exam preparation Podcrammers.
These Podcrammers take students through: 
  • Examination preparation and revision hints and tips
  • Exam techniques for answering questions in order to maximise your marks.

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Table of Contents top

  • Area of Study One: Motion in one and two dimensions
  • Revision of unit 2 movement
  • Relative motion and inertial frames of reference
  • Forces, their applications in straight line and in 2D, resolution of forces
  • Projectile motion
  • Circular motion
  • Collisions in a straight line, momentum and impulse
  • Work done and energy
  • Energy transformations
  • Newton’s law of universal gravitation, weight and gravitational fields, weightlessness
  • The motion of planets and satellites modelled as circular motion
  • Area of Study Two: Electronics and photonics
  • Revision and Voltage
  • Electronic devices in circuits
  • Operation of the transistor
  • Opto-electronics
  • Energy and information transfer
  • Detailed Study: Materials and their use in structures
  • What causes a material to deform: forces and stress
  • How materials change when stress is applied to them: strain
  • Interpretation of stress versus strain graphs
  • The forces in a structure
  • The use of torque in a structure
  • BONUS: VCE Unit 3 Physics Examination Preparation