Our tutors can help you refresh and consolidate what you have learnt in class and overcome any difficulties faced in any core or elective topic for the Year 11 Preliminary and HSC Physics course. The requirements for HSC Physics has a focus on qualitative descriptions of physics and its role in society, it is important that candidates have a thorough understanding of the key physical principles and be able to apply this knowledge to different scenarios.
Your HSC Physics Tutor can help you master your elective topic:
- Geophysics
- Medical Physics
- Astrophysics
- From Quanta to Quarks
- The Age of Silicon
As a HSC Physics tutor, I see the most common problem that students encounter is not addressing all components of a question, thus not achieving full marks for questions that are well within their abilities. Although HSC Physics tutoring is just another tool to help you achieve your desired mark, our tutors can help you develop a method to answering both the extended response and the quantitative questions, helping you to achieve your full potential in HSC Physics. You will also have access to a library of HSC Physics past exam papers with worked solutions and sample answers.
We provide HSC Physics tutoring services for all core topics:
Preliminary Course
- The World Communicates
- Electrical Energy in the Home
- Moving about
- The Cosmic Engine
HSC Course
- Space
- Motors and Generators
- From Ideas to Implementation
Here are some typical three mark questions, taken from past HSC Physics Exam Papers.
“Explain how an understanding of black body radiation changed the direction of scientific thinking in the early twentieth century.”
A better response will address the following sub questions:
- What is a black body?
- How did Planck describe black body radiation, including what was Planck’s hypothesis?
- How did Planck’s description change our understanding of electromagnetic radiation and lead on to the beginnings of quantum theory?
“The following image shows a magnet hovering above a superconducting disk.
Explain why the magnet is able to hover above the superconductor.”
A better response to this question will address the following sub questions:
- What is the Meissner effect?
- How does the Meissner effect apply to this image?
- Why does the magnet hover (include an analysis of the forces acting on the magnet)?
