Senior Physics Challenge 2013

Original post by ltigers

What do you mean by that?

I got rejected from every summer school and course I applied to purely on the grounds I attend an independent school. :frown:

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vandanparmar

Original post by Goods

I got rejected from every summer school and course I applied to purely on the grounds I attend an independent school. :frown:

I attend an independent school and I got accepted.. What makes you think it's your school that is the reason you got rejected...?

Reply 44

ltigers

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Original post by Goods

I got rejected from every summer school and course I applied to purely on the grounds I attend an independent school. :frown:

Which did you apply to, and also I know people who got on the spc even though they were from an independent school.-see above poster
Clearly, if you applied to uniq/Sutton trust you would have been rejected.

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Original post by ltigers

Which did you apply to, and also I know people who got on the spc even though they were from an independent school.-see above poster
Clearly, if you applied to uniq/Sutton trust you would have been rejected.

I got an email saying they couldn't accept my application and it was definitely within the deadline unless second class post can take more than 6 days...

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Reply 46

BeatlesFan96

I'm at Christ's, is anyone else at Christ's? :smile:

Reply 47

jlane2

Hey guys, just signed up to tsr to discuss this.
I've got in, but having exams hadn't even looked at the preliminary stuff until now.
Its all content I've never encountered before and I'm struggling, is there any online resource I can use to teach it to myself?
Feeling apprehensive that I'm perhaps out of my depth here.

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athene7

Original post by jlane2

Hey guys, just signed up to tsr to discuss this.
I've got in, but having exams hadn't even looked at the preliminary stuff until now.
Its all content I've never encountered before and I'm struggling, is there any online resource I can use to teach it to myself?
Feeling apprehensive that I'm perhaps out of my depth here.

Hey! I know what you mean, I've only looked through a bit and am also finding it quite challenging... I found it helps if you just keep going over it again and again? (I know that sound kind of stupid though..)
Don't know of any online resources, sorry :frown:

You could try asking your physics teacher?

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vandanparmar

Original post by jlane2

Hey guys, just signed up to tsr to discuss this.
I've got in, but having exams hadn't even looked at the preliminary stuff until now.
Its all content I've never encountered before and I'm struggling, is there any online resource I can use to teach it to myself?
Feeling apprehensive that I'm perhaps out of my depth here.

I haven't found it that bad... So I'm happy to discuss it with you if you want...

Reply 50

jlane2

Original post by athene7

Hey! I know what you mean, I've only looked through a bit and am also finding it quite challenging... I found it helps if you just keep going over it again and again? (I know that sound kind of stupid though..)
Don't know of any online resources, sorry :frown:

You could try asking your physics teacher?

Yeah I'm slogging through it slowly, repetition does seem to help.
My physics teacher is pre-occupied with A2 students for the moment so I'm on my own, unless I can glean any assistance from the maths department.

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MattJCP

Original post by Goods

I got rejected from every summer school and course I applied to purely on the grounds I attend an independent school. :frown:

I know what you mean, I also go to an independent school and my teacher did say that this course was designed for state schools. However I'm not sure to what extent that's true

Reply 52

MattJCP

Does everyone here do further maths? I only do regular maths, do you think I'll be at a disadvantage?

Reply 53

athene7

Original post by MattJCP

Does everyone here do further maths? I only do regular maths, do you think I'll be at a disadvantage?

I don't do it either :smile:

this is what I was thinking, so I'm going to try and go over some A2 stuff beforehand..

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Original post by athene7

I don't do it either :smile:

this is what I was thinking, so I'm going to try and go over some A2 stuff beforehand..

They won't ask you how to derive things from scratch without showing you how and so I doubt you would be at a disadvantage as long as your algebra and calculus are good enough to follow what's going on per-say. I'm so jealous of all of you... Could someone send me the advanced reading so I could look at it even though I'm not on the course?

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robh27

I'm having a lot of trouble with the content in the QM primer. The differential equations are really tough, and i struggle to see how the course requires AS maths? It seems the Primer is mostly C3, C4 and DE differential techniques, and some exercises go further.

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Timi797

Original post by Goods

They won't ask you how to derive things from scratch without showing you how and so I doubt you would be at a disadvantage as long as your algebra and calculus are good enough to follow what's going on per-say. I'm so jealous of all of you... Could someone send me the advanced reading so I could look at it even though I'm not on the course?

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We get Chapter 1 of the QM Primer. Free to download from their website: http://www.cavendish-quantum.org.uk/

(edited 10 years ago)

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