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i dont want to go to school tomorrow :(

Well you'll just have to deal with that like the rest of us by showing up and getting through the day. Believe me I don't want to go either...

How is your school your prison? do they make you do homework and torture you and only give you and hour's break a day? sounds horrible...

*ahem* That information is classified.

(haha no the name of the page doesn't mean anything, it was just a better name than Untitled.)

-TK

so it's completely a-ok for us to submit notes of our own? i do maths c and physics, which might be helpful for some people (but i have no idea why they would be doing either subject in the first place).

Yes, submitting your own notes is fine! The more notes we are sent on different subjects, the better. If the notes have been sent to us before by someone else or similar to other submissions we may end up merging them into one post. (if that makes any sense..)

-TK(I have no idea either but they must be good subjects for something right?)

... or would 'long time no read' be better...?

hmmm.. maybe? I think both work well :)

long time no see

indeed anon it has been a while

hello *waves excitedly*-TK

where are you these days? me, my textbooks, and Tumblr miss youu! I miss this blog and my study buddy. :)

I apologize about the absence of the person who usually runs this blog. I'm assuming because of the fact we are on holidays at the moment (until tomorrow) is the reason for her disappearance but I know for a fact we/she will be back!

haha I'm sounding too official ><

- TK

i just the read the previous question and it got me thinking. I'm an insomniac and I find myself feeling more awake to study from 10pm onwards. I usually fall asleep at 3am in the morning. however that means I only get about 3 hours of sleep each day, which is obviously bad and I've noticed it affects my concentration at school. what would you suggest as a better sleeping schedule? not only for studying, but for better productivity?

Okay so I'm assuming this was sent to us a while ago but I'll answer it anyway.

This actually relates to me a lot because I find myself doing the same thing. I think the trick to this would be to slowly get yourself back to a regular bed time. Not all at once as in suddenly changing your sleeping schedule to start at 10pm instead of 3am because you'll find your body wont adjust properly. Try going to sleep 1 hour before you usually do and do the same each night until you are back to getting at least 7 hours of sleep or more.

Once you get back to having enough sleep, concentrating in class will become easier and you'll be able to study more efficiently.

I hope this helped if only a little. - TK

Here we go again!

Okay it seems this blog has felt a little neglected for a while so we will be sure to be posting new notes and answered questions soon. Our holidays finish today so we'll be back on track and up and running for term 2 (our term 2 anyway)!

- TK

#seniorstudybuddies #school #term 2 #semester 1 #year 12

24/2 - Religion and Ethics notes

Humans have no existence apart from the living earth

-dependant on the earth

-no earth, no us

-we are no more important than the rest of the world

-we all have earth in common

-we are borrowing the land from our children

-we must accept responsibility for earth's survival

-what happens to earth happens to us

cosmology - belief about what existence is baout

spirituality - how you experience and live out your cosmology, its impact on your life

theology - what god(s) (if any) you believe in

-'new story' encourages people to think in a religiously/spiritually inclusive way. Take everything into account as part of creation

#religion and ethics #notes #24/2 #24-2

do you work/study best early in the morning before school/after school or at night? :)

I think it depends. I'm not much of a morning person at all, so i often do better after school. However, there's nothing like the pressure of 'I NEED TO GET THIS DONE NOW' to wake you up early in the morning. This, plus caffeine, also works well late at night.

If it's not urgent (and you should try your best not to leave things until they're urgent, but it just kinda happens) then it just depends on you. When are you most awake, and most able to think? That will be your best time for working/studying.

As much as I love reading and truly appreciating your notes, it is possible if you could re-read and edit over the recent notes you have uploaded ? I'm trying to review for Chemistry, but the typos and dysfunctional sentences makes it hard for my to read and understand. Sorry to be a bother, but it'd be MUCH appreciated! Kthanks.

I'll interpret that as a stressed person trying to revise. Sadly, i'm also a bit busy at the moment (i am a student too, and these are my notes as they happen). I think the sentences are more a problem of what happens when my mind tries to interpret my teacher's explanations of weird chemistry concepts, and neither of us are very articulate. So a lot of the 'dysfunctional sentences' might just be how i talk, and i'm rubbish at explaining.

If i get time over the weekend, i might read over them and see if i can spot anything. If you (or anyone else) does, just tell me what the problem is and where and i'll see what i can do.

And, of course, there is the rest of the internet.

As always, thanks for the thanks!

English, 14/2/2012,

English Notes, 14/2/12

Feature Article Genre

Purpose:

-Offers background info about subject

-Timeless

-More research and detail

-Provide understanding

Headline:

-Grabs the readers attention and persuades them to rad the article

-Highlights the main idea of article

-Figurative language

-Use puns

-Provocative (suggestive)

-Bolded

-Large black print

-Across length of article, at the top

Examples:

-Man sticks jet engine in kayak, somehow survives

Summary line:

-One sentence that sums up article

-Interesting and concise

-Positions under headline, preceding the by line

-bolded

By line:

-By-line states the name of the journalist/composer

-Appears after the summary line, maybe incorporated in summary line

Photograph, insert and Caption:

-You will have one large photograph in your article that captures readers attention

-Insert is a picture of photo that adds meaning and interest to the article – I smaller and is often in the column space

-Caption is a comment about the photo explaining the significance it has to your article. A caption is required for inset, usually this is placed directly after caption for main photo

-All photo/ pictures require a caption, placed in smaller font

-Photo must be appropriate to article

Pull quote:

-A quote or edited expert from article, ‘pulled’ out

-Larger than font size used in article, not as large as headline, is bolded

-Purpose is to grab reader’s attention, leads readers onto main tipics

Introductory Paragraph:

-Entice reader. Use drama, emotion, quotations, questions, descriptions

-Approx. 4 – 5 paragraphs in length

-Does not go into detail, gives general idea of material

-Anecdote or quote is used in introduce the tone and purpose of article, or a well-chosen example that is emotive to draw attention

-After general intro, next paragraph state thesis of article or the point you are trying to persuade people to accept.

Thesis: basis of argument

Body:

-Develop stance by providing info that supports thesis and variety of persuasive techniques to convince audience

-Info provided by series of historical and cultural examples / events / facts / anecdotes / expert opinions / quotes and opinionative statements in a brief and logical manner.

Conclusion:

-Connects with an idea tht has been developed in the lead, summarise main points of the article.

-Structured in same way as lead as it referes to the angle presented in introduction.

-Often at end writer will provide relevant info about subject of feature, as well as writers cmment. Eg, how will things be in future?

#english #submission #notes #14-2 #14/2 #assessment

17/2 - Chemistry Notes

RATES OF CHEMICAL REACTIONS

-Measure the loss of reactant of the appearance of product

-collision theory: for a reaction to occur, reactants must

i.) collide

ii.) collide with enough energy

iii.) collide with the right orientation (the right bits need to hit each other. No use hitting the wrong side of the molecule)

-reactions are spend up by

i.) increasing temperature because it increases the number of collisions and energy of collisions

ii.) increasing concentrationg of reactants because it causes an increase in number of collisions

iii.) increasing surface area because it increases the number of collisions

iv.) adding a catalyst

-collisions are only effective if they are with neough energy called the activation energy of Ea

(diagramn like this picture)

they need to collide with enough energy of they don't react. Ea is the energy required.

-If you increase the temperature, the highest point of the graph will be further right and so more particles will be over the Ea.

-So you need to add more energy so they can collide with more energy

Before something can react, it will need a little bit more energy. We're used to graphs of exothermic reactions looking like this but they really look like this. That bump is called the 'activated complex'. It is an in-between stage. If it loses energy, it can go back to its proginal state. If it gains a little more, it can cross over into being a product.

A catalyst lowers the Ea, therefore more particles will have enough energy to react. It provides an alternate pathway, but it is not part of the collision.

E.g. (this is just too funny so i had to write it down). Lily wants her foot to react with Ellie's elbow, making a footbow. She needs to have enough energy to kick Ellie's elbow off, and then connect her foot with it.

Tamara is a catalyst. She chops off people's elbows. So Lily can just go around reacting with elbows the Tamara has chopped off, without needing the extra energy to kick them off.

Tamara is not part of the reaction. She is not a product or a reactant. She'll go around chopping people's elbows off, and if you put her into another classroom she'll just chop all their elbows off too. All she does is aid the reaction.

Here's a picture of a reaction, with and without a catalyst.

#chemistry #17/2 #17-2 #notes

16/2 - Maths notes

#16/2 #16-2 #maths #maths b

16/2 - Religion and Ethics notes

(check out these pictures. The ones at the start)

In this ancient worldview, god lives in heaven, which is a place above and beyond the rest of creation.

This has led to a cosmology which is

-dualistic (material - spiritual)

-anthropocentric (human centred) fixed earth, static creation with a transcendent god

reltionships in anthropolistic cosmology

-god as transcendent, above and beyond

-humans seperate fro and above the rest of nature

-humans have a relationship with each other and maybe god

-earth is the stage on which we play out our lives, not important

-can lead to justification of domination, consumerism, exploitation

Hierarchy (picture the below as a pyramid)

god

men

women

children

animals

plants

rocks

Organisation in a dualistic anthropolistic mosmology

-hierarchial

-patriarchal

-unchanging, not flexible

-established by god

-can lead to justification of oppression and abuse

humans are seperate, powerful, invulnerable, isolated from the rest of creation

New insights -> new world view

Creation-centred cosmology

Big bang theory

-lots of evidence everywhere

-also for evolution

view is that god is an 'inner dynamic'

-all life is connected

-humans have capacity for conscious awareness or reflective thought -> gives use greater responsibility

-through creation we are connected to all other living creatures

Not so much of a hierarchy, fluid, meshed together

#16/2 #16-2 #religion and ethics #notes

14/2 - Chemistry notes

HESS'S LAW

You'll always get a table showing the change in enthalpy of different equations.

When a reaction can be expressed as the sum of little reactions, the change in enthalpy can be expressed as the sum of the change in enthalpy of the reactions.

It's kinda hard to explain on here, but i'll do my best.

You have a main reaction that you need to find out the change in enthalpy for.

For each molecule in the equation, there should be another reaction in the table that is is a product or reactant of.(But our teacher didn't tend to bother with oxygen, since it's common). Make sure they're in the same state!

You take these equations, and match them. For example, if in your main equation you have H2O, but your reaction from the table has 2H2O, you need to halve everything in it, including your change in enthalpy. If 2H2O was the product, but it was a reactant in your main equation, you have to flip it around and make the change in enthalpy positive if it was negative, or vice versa.

Then 'add' all your equations together. If anything is on both the left and right hand side, they cancel each other out, so cross them out. What you're left with should be your main equation. Add up the change in enthalpy of each of the reactions from the table. That's your answer!

#chemistry #14/2 #14-2 #notes #hess's law

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