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2010 Thread

FIRST

So solar system will be about the same as last year except you can have two pages of notes??
Any other differences?

waawamellon wrote:FIRST

So solar system will be about the same as last year except you can have two pages of notes??
Any other differences?

ya there are some new topics

Really, its almos exactly the same. I myself will be re-using last year's notes, just with a few modifications, plus an additional page of notes.

Last year, what got us was the "physical characteristics", of which we knew nothing.

robodude wrote:Really, its almos exactly the same. I myself will be re-using last year's notes, just with a few modifications, plus an additional page of notes.

Last year, what got us was the "physical characteristics", of which we knew nothing.

For us we got caught on the stars and where they were supposed to be.

Do you mean the constellations the planets appear in? If you're having trouble with that, you could download this program called Stellarium that's basically a virtual night sky that lets you see constellations, planets, etc at any date and time (kudos to brobo for showing me this last year) or you could print out star maps from a source like Heavens Above.

robodude wrote: Last year, what got us was the "physical characteristics", of which we knew nothing.

Thats funny... thats my strong point
actually there is a new table on the wiki under Quick Guide to the Solar System (not to be confused with the Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy)
It tells you all about the different planets, information such as distance from the sun or mass or the radius

I checked and it said it was still one page of notes, im confused here.
Last year we got stuck on the last question, i hope its not the same
We answered with the emo song.

You're probably looking at last year's rules. Official 2011 rules: "Each team may bring two 8.5" by 11" two-sided pages of notes that contain information in any form from any source, plus a non-programmable calculator with a square root function."

goscience123 wrote:I checked and it said it was still one page of notes, im confused here.
Last year we got stuck on the last question, i hope its not the same

Yup, two pages this year, make sure you're using the right year.
The tests aren't ever going to be the same, except at regionals if the proctor doesn't want to take the time to write a test, they may borrow one. But I doubt that that will happen at State, if that was what you were referring to.