Exam.... and I need luck!

[crenn]

Tomorrow I have my mid year physics exam. It's got motion, electronics and photonics and further electronics.

Anyway... wish me luck!

[Rankenphile]

shouldn't you be studying? :p

kidding. good luck!

[MarkTheDaemon]

Good luck, i'm sure everything will go well for you :D


Mark

[onelegout]

eek! good luck! I have a hisory exam on wednesday and a computing (LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL, what a load of bollocks A-level computing is!) exam on thursday.
:D

[DaveW]

Mine are all finished. Physics is great fun, get stuck in ;)

-Dave, 800th post

[CanaBalistic]

Do what i did and forge a diploma :)

[OvRiDe]

Good luck!!

[Rankenphile]

do you know how you did on your exams, Dave?

[crenn]

Well, just finished the exam. And I'm fairly happy with it, I just hope I got enough marks to please my parents.

I did the Motion section, Electronics section and my personal favourite, the Further Electronics section. (The rest of the class did Materials and Structures)

[Slug Toy]

you know, i was all happy until i found this.

thanks for reminding me i have five midterms in the next couple weeks. im depressed now. biology, geology, and geography.... plus two lab exams.

yar, physics. its something i love to suck at. well, i DID suck at the higher level stuff two years ago. thermodynamics made me mad. my teacher was fat and lazy too, so she made me mad. ive got to revisit that stuff soon. the motion stuff is a bugger too, what with the ballistics and theoretical cannons on hills hundreds of miles in the air, and the tons of pointless math.

i always did like relativity though, and rightly so. it breaks some rules of logic, just like the simple fact of my existence does. i especially like the idea of the twin paradox... how time might slow down as an object approaches a source of gravity, instead of velocity increasing.

i hope you gave that exam a good flogging. i for one believe exams need to be put back in their place. i remember back when i decided i didnt like computer science... i finished my final exam and ate it right in front of the teacher, and got booted out. i ended up failing that course. you get my point... exams suck big time.

just curious though, what level of physics are we talking about? i did electricity many times throughout many different sciences.

[crenn]

Unit 3 level of Physics. But it is most likely different to your standard. We covered projectile motion, 2 dimensional motion, graviatation, electronics, photonics, communication (part of the photonics section), circular motion, and for me, further electronics.

[DaveW]

Good luck again ;)

[Rankenphile]

I never got beyond high school physics, but I really enjoyed what I learned in it, even if it was fileld with complex math. I loved how it explained the physical world and the way things interact with each other. It was much more fun, to me, than chemistry, which I always sort of thought of as "invisible science" - you put this with this, add a bit of heat and presto! You've got green goop. Oooooooh!

Physics, though, was fascinating. You push a person that weighs this much down a flight of stairs this tall, do a little math, carry the two, and presto! He broke this many bones.

Now that is the kind of science I can get behind.

[GT40_GearHead]

Now that is the kind of science I can get behind.
what would we do with out you :D
EDIT: you promised us some pics :-w

[Rankenphile]

what would we do with out you :D
EDIT: you promised us some pics :-w

working on it. the Vader pics were on someone else's camera, I'm bugging him to get them from him. I had to reformat my system this weekend, so I'm still in the process of reinstalling before I post the rest of the pics.

patience, my young padawan.

[GT40_GearHead]

patience, my young padawan.
yes... master (lol)

[OvRiDe]

When I took Engineering physics I and II, I had the same professor for both classes. (It didn't hurt that he was my Dad's friend either;) ). He used to make it really interesting for us with scenarios such as...

If you have a bullet traveling at Xft/sec, and we know that the coefficient of friction for flesh is blah. When the bullet strikes the flesh, what is the is form of energy is the inertia of the bullet transformed into. (Which happens to be heat.) Then he would procede to have us calculate how hot it got!!

-OR-

If you have a cylindrical water tower lying on its side at the top of a hill. The hill has a slope of blah. If the tower weighs so much and started rolling from the top, and poor Joe Smith was watering his flowers at the bottom of the hill. What is the acceration, and top speed of the tank, and how long does Joe have to get out of the way. Then he would polish it off with .. If the tank is whatever feet long and Joe is at the midpoint of the tower. If Joe can accelerate at whatever feet/sec... Will he make it!?!

Those were just a few of the questions I can recall. I must say he made if very interesting and I got a A in both classes. I can say it was because he had a way of getting you to relate to the physics in a way that is wasn't just a bunch of numbers and math, but it also didn't hurt that he was a friend of my Dad's either :D..