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Originally Posted by theodog
I believe there is no Astronomy in the New NSW HSC Physics syllabus.   |
That's not really the case Jeff. I tutor HSC physics at a Sydney high school and in the sample questions for the new NSW HSC Physics syllabus from NESA there are a couple of questions involving the Hertzprung Russell diagram as part of the "From the Universe to the Atom" section of the syllabus. There are also questions involving planetary motion etc.
What has happened is that they've gone from an elective model where students could select from different electives (one of which was Astronomy/Astrophysics) to a straight syllabus where everyone studies the same topics - so the overall amount of astronomy content a student studies now would have decreased compared to a past student who selected astronomy as one of their electives.