First of all, like what feynman said, it's Physics. With an [s].

Secondly, stop expounding on how hard Matriculation is. And Physics STPM Semester 1 isn't basic stuff. To prove this point, look at how you solved the question involving the wedges and the block, even with your 'STPM'+Matriculation's worth of experience.

Tell me, are Newton's Laws of Motion not in Matriculation and STPM syllabus? Did you not draw FBD's in Matriculation?

Or are you saying that wedges do not appear in STPM and Matriculation, hence, aren't a part of the syllabus? 

You've got to be kidding me.

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Wtf you're talking man?

There's just so much wrong in what you have said.

Just stop talking about syllabus and start solving the damn problem. You try to talk kok with the professor or the chief engineer, say goodbye to your sorry ass.

If you don't know how to solve it, then say don;t know. There's no shame in admitting one's limitation. No one will laugh at you. At work, people are expected to help each other solve problems. If you are so atas, want muka and all. Then you should just quit university and stay at home.

Thanks for dropping by in this thread, senior.

Regarding the bolded part above, you've written there that in order to secure a 4.00 CGPA pointer and extremely high co-co marks, one has to study hard. But can you please enlighten me on how hard do we have to study in order to achieve such feats? To what extend of studying or revising that you consider as hard?

It's nice to get some input from fellow seniors in this forum. But, considering the fact that you did learn a few topics about STPM syllabus before you shifted and ventured into the world of matriculation, would you explicitly explain to us fellow juniors in this thread on what you mean by ''basic stuffs'' in the first term? Which are the topics in the first term that you consider 'basic', is it the kinematics, dynamics, or all of the topics? You've also stated that we will learn things that are related to 'electric magnet' in the second term, but, what is 'electric magnet'? I'd like to superficially find some clarification on 'electric magnet' as I'm about to delve further into it in next year. Finally, can you give us a little glimpse on the 'nuclear stuff' that you were referring to in the third term? As far as I know, we will only delve into the world of Nuclear Physics in the sixth chapter of the third term, so, do the other chapters in that term like, Oscillations, Sound Waves, Quantum Mechanics and Optics are correlated with the 'nuclear stuff' too?

Thanks for clearing my doubts.

Boy, you committed a critical fallacy.

Look at Example 5.10 on page 143, University Physics, 13e (Young & Freedman). This is the CRITICAL concept you require to solve the moving wedge (frictionless) problem, posted by maximR. For problems where a body rests or slides on an inclined plane that exerts frictional forces on the body, refer to Example 5.16 (pg.150) and 5.17 (pg.151).

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Leave that aside, how's your MUET preparation going? After numerous times of practicing in class, I've realised that one of my weaknesses in MUET is my scarcity of coming up with new and fresh ideas when doing essays. While I noticed that I'm trying to come up with complex structure and low-frequency words when writing an essay, I'm committing lots of mistakes at the same time too. I think I'm quite alright for the speaking component though.

As for both the reading and listening component, my ability to garner higher marks in these sections depends on my capabilities to fathom on the nature of the question(sometimes it is tricky and can be a tough nut to crack, but it can also be downright straight forward and easy). Occasionally, I scored full marks for both listening and speaking component, but there were times too where I could hardly even gain a maximum of 2 marks for the said components.

Just a little thing to share with you and you might know that what I'm telling is true to some extent. Last Thursday, my MUET teacher let me have a look on a very old Singaporean English revision book for secondary students(it's under the publication of Preston Corporation in 1988). When I skimmed through a few pages of the book, I was quite amazed by the countless impressive words that discombobulated me as well as certain components that posed questions that requires higher level of proficiency in English, which is on roughly on the same level as MUET(or even the likes of TOEFL/IELTS), if not easier. But that's not it, what made me throw in the towel was that after I returned it back to my MUET teacher, she told me that the book was intended ''specifically for students of secondary 1 in Singapore...''. My mouth agape with incredulity, I knew it from the start that our academic levels is a joke compared to Singapore in the first place to begin with, but I never know that was beast on that level!!