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Content
Practical work and problem solving, measurement, units
and vectors, mechanics, electrostatics, electricity and
electromagnetism, wave motion, heat and temperature.
Recommended reading
England, N. Physics Matters. London, Hodder and Stoughton,
1989
TM196 Bridging Chemistry
6 hours per week Hawthorn Prerequisites: Nil
Assessment: laboratory reports, research questions in
assignment format and open book tests
A subject in the Bridging Technology course.
Objectives
To present the principles of atomic structure used in
defining the current models and conventions of chemistry.
Students familiar with these principles and models could
confidently enrol in VCE Chemistry, TAFE certificate
courses involving further studies in chemistry, nursing or
health science courses.
Content
Introduction to: chemical concepts, the elements,
compounds likely to be encountered in the home and
workplace, acids and bases. Students complete practical
work.
Recommended reading
Asimov, I. Atorn:]ourney Across the Subatomic Cosmos. New
York, Plume, 1992
Hawkins, M.D. Technician Chemistry 1. Cassell, 1981
TM197 Basic Physics
3 hours per week Hawthorn Prerequisites: Nil
Assessment: laborato y reports, research questions in
worksheet and assignment format
A subject in the Bridging Technology course.
Objectives
To introduce the student to the scientific conventions of
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c investigating physical phenomenon. Students familiar with
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3. these conventions could confidently enrol for the Bridging
3 Physics program.
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2 Content
9. An introduction to the study of practical and theoretical
Gi physics. An investigation of the scope of physics and how
physics describes the world around us.
Recommended reading
England, N. Physics Matters. London, Hodder and Stoughton,
1989
TM198 Microcomputing
3 hours per week Hawthorn Prerequisites: Nil
Assessment: performance on in-class open book practical tasks
A subject in the Bridging Technology course.
Obiedives
~oiamiliarise students with the components of a
microcomputer based information system. To enable
students to use: a word processing package; a
spreadsheeting package; a database management system.
Content - -
Introduction to using personal computers, including the
use of software packages. These will include
wordprocessors and spreadsheets with the aim of utilising
them to expand understanding of other subjects taken in
the course.
Recommended reading
Sala, P. Lotus 123. Hawthorn, Vic., Swinburne Press, 1992
TM200 Skills in Science
2 hours pw week Hawthorn Prerequisites: Nil
Assessment: Library research assignment; comprehension,
summa y and writing under test conditions; critical analysis
of scientific data under test conditions; oral presentation
A subject in the Bridging Technology course and the
Graduate Certificate in Science and Technology.
Objedives
To review study skills. To develop skills necessary for
thinking and reasoning within a scientific context. To
develop reading, research and writing skills within a
scientific context. Experimental report writing. Giving
and receiving oral instructions in a scientific context.
Content
Basic comprehension and critical analysis of scientific
literature. Basic research skills and practical experiment
writing.
Recommended reading
Urarov, E.B. and Isaacs, A. The Penguin Dictionary of Science.
7th edn, London, Penguin, 1993
TM882 Womens Bridging Mathematics
3 hourspw week Hawthorn Prerequisites: Nil
A subject in the New Opportunities for Women course.
Content
This subject is made up of the following modules:
introduction skills;
some maths from the real world;
an introduction to algebra;
spaces.
TM883 Mathematics for Engineering and
Science
5 hoursper week Hawthorn Prerequisites: Nil
A subject in the New Opportunities for Women course.
Content
This subject is made up of the following modules:
applied trigonometry
coordinate geometry
factorization part 1
equations
introduction to statistics
simultaneous equations
index laws, logarithm and surd
trigonometry around the circle
factorization Dart 2
function nota'tions
introduction to calculus