The little things

[Jon B.]

Way to crank up all the engineers Bosco!!!!!!

Having been an Industrial Engineer in a former life and after doing a time study on Bosco's foil method vs. the deflector stones,..................... I have come to the professional conclusion................ that the foil methodology is a "heck of a lot easier" (technical talk).

PS - Almost afraid to see what Syzygie will say about this       

 

 

[tony b]

4 hours ago, Jon B. said:

PS - Almost afraid to see what Syzygie will say about this       

Even my Engineer brain hurts just thinking about it! 

@Pequod - good one! 

Edited August 2, 2017 by tony b

[Bruce Pearson]

I have been waiting for Syzygie to explain it all to us lol

[Aussie Ora]

I love this site so many cluey people who love Q .

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[Steve M]

On 8/1/2017 at 9:20 PM, Pequod said:

And it turns out Maxwell's equations are really just the ideal fluids form of the Navier-Stokes equations, so they apply to electromagnetism as well. I remember skating through an electromagnetism class in college by just treating the entire thing like a class in ideal fluid flow. Aced it until I got to the final, when the first questions was, what are the units for various e/m things. No clue, but it wasn't psi, m/s, or anything I knew about! 

 

What was this thread about again? 

That sounds harder than my indoor plants class.

[Syzygies]

On 8/1/2017 at 6:20 PM, Pequod said:

Aced it until I got to the final, when the first questions was

I like using an inexpensive paella pan as reusable foil.

(I took the hardest intro physics sequence for my science distribution requirement, a year late. I actually called the professor on a Sunday night because I hadn't begun studying for Monday's exam. Of course he refused an extension. I realized this was multivariable calculus with funny names for things, and got the third highest score in the class. Next exam, I started again the night before, but I flunked. I'd never actually seen differential equations before, and this was too short notice.)

[tony b]

Only way I got through advanced nuclear physics with a decent grade was that I was probably only person in the class, outside of the prof, that knew what a Green's Function was and how to solve one. Most of the class was derivations of different classical solutions of Schrödinger's equation. But, don't ask me anything about that stuff now - flushed all that out of my brain many years ago! 

[Pequod]

1 hour ago, tony b said:

Only way I got through advanced nuclear physics with a decent grade was that I was probably only person in the class, outside of the prof, that knew what a Green's Function was and how to solve one. Most of the class was derivations of different classical solutions of Schrödinger's equation. But, don't ask me anything about that stuff now - flushed all that out of my brain many years ago! 

Doesn't look like it.

Edited August 4, 2017 by Pequod

[CeramicChef]

All I knew was nonlinear dynamic systems theory, math stat, math econ, and econometrics and now I'm lucky to be able to solve a quadratic using Wolfram Alpha!  How quickly we forget.

Edited August 5, 2017 by CeramicChef

[MacKenzie]

I like using an inexpensive paella pan as reusable foil.
(I took the hardest intro physics sequence for my science distribution requirement, a year late. I actually called the professor on a Sunday night because I hadn't begun studying for Monday's exam. Of course he refused an extension. I realized this was multivariable calculus with funny names for things, and got the third highest score in the class. Next exam, I started again the night before, but I flunked. I'd never actually seen differential equations before, and this was too short notice.)

Syzygies, you are a riot.

[Paul]

I doubt the following is true and I might get in trouble for posting it...but I can't help myself.

 

This answer to a college chemistry exam was sent to me recently and restores my faith in the new generation of college students. The answer was purportedly in response to the bonus question on a University of Arizona chemistry midterm: “Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?”

Here is the student’s answer:

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving, which is unlikely. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let’s look at the different religions that exist in the world today.

Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle’s Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added.

This gives two possibilities:

1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.

2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

So which is it?

If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, ‘It will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you,’ and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number two must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over. The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct….. …leaving only Heaven, thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting ‘Oh my God.’

[tony b]

Oldie, but a goodie!