Maxy1896 Posted April 4, 2011 Report Share Posted April 4, 2011 hello,in my class we have covered Astrophysics, and I am not that bad in it. However, there is a big problem (I am session May2011): I have either not been to class, or haven't been listening, so I have to teach myself another whole option. My class rushed through Option G (Electromagnetic waves). But as I said, I wasn't there or wasn't listening, so basically don't know ANYTHING from that Topic.I am HL, and now I need to teach myself another option besides Astrophysics (E). Do you know any option that you feel is easy enough for a self-study? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
genepeer Posted April 4, 2011 Report Share Posted April 4, 2011 Electromagnetic waves... our teacher literally refused to teach it to us, so we had to teach it to ourselves. So just go back to the book and read it from scratch and do the exercises. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slovakov Posted April 4, 2011 Report Share Posted April 4, 2011 If you're good at electric circuts, choose Communications, because amplifiers is the only difficult thing in it. I took Communications and EM WAves and I think it would be hard for me to teach myself these waves, comparing to communications. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
genepeer Posted April 5, 2011 Report Share Posted April 5, 2011 (edited) Those are the same options I did... I gave up and never understood how those switching circuits work, are they the amplifiers? Last part of the chapter. Definitely why I didn't suggest it, but an otherwise good option too.As for Waves, once you understand how interference works, esp. single then double-slit, everything else is relatively easy. Edited April 5, 2011 by Gene-Peer Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoneyWinker Posted April 5, 2011 Report Share Posted April 5, 2011 How is Option C (SL): Digital Technology? I was going to try learning that on my own. Does anyone suggest it? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slovakov Posted April 5, 2011 Report Share Posted April 5, 2011 Generally Digital Technology is quite easy, but I heard that when it's an SL Option, then it involves thee scary evil amplifiers . I'm ready to fail this single question involving the amplifiers, but this matter is really terrible. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoneyWinker Posted April 6, 2011 Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 (edited) Generally Digital Technology is quite easy, but I heard that when it's an SL Option, then it involves thee scary evil amplifiers . I'm ready to fail this single question involving the amplifiers, but this matter is really terrible.So you are saying it would be difficult for an SL student?My teacher taught taught us A. Sight and Waves B. Quantum? I was just going to study another option just in case the questions for those two are difficult. What other option would be easy to learn (I heard Electromagnetic Waves is similar to the Waves option)? Edited April 6, 2011 by MoneyWinker Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drake Glau Posted April 6, 2011 Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 Not sure what sight and waves covers, but it'd probably be VERY similar, yea...Electromagnetic waves is not that hard of an option as it is anyway in my opinion. There's a few equations for calculating how far objects are and stuff like that. Also covers magnification of lens and the nature of the two major lens types. And then there are ray diagrams too Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuka Posted April 6, 2011 Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 although i don't do physics, my roommate does it, and she suggested the relativity option. even though it takes time to get your head around it, the questions are straightforward. they can only ask you so much in that unit. another unit, if you're interested slightly in biology or something is the medical physics unit.it's a bit of memorization, but the unit isn't difficult to learn. i've actually learnt that unit even though i don't take physics since i'm interested in going into a medical related course in uni. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezeh Posted April 9, 2011 Report Share Posted April 9, 2011 Medical Physics is indeed quite easy compared to the others, if you're into biology. If you take a look at the data booklet, you can see that the amount of formulas that are related to astrophysics, communications, etc is nothing compared to medical physics Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Req Posted April 17, 2011 Report Share Posted April 17, 2011 Given that you are HL, you must do ops. A to D, I would recommend medical physics because its shorter and is quite interesting. Good Luck Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
docp Posted April 21, 2011 Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 I would recomend you, if you are a HL student, to do Particle Physics. The only things that could be a pain to understand are quarks, but in general that option is complemented in what you've seen in Quantum Physics. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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