RX Reven' wrote:suprf1y wrote: The prof. could benefit from a lesson in grammar, and punctuation.and math...guessing would result in 1/5th rather than 1/4th correct.
Thank You!
RX Reven' wrote:suprf1y wrote: The prof. could benefit from a lesson in grammar, and punctuation.and math...guessing would result in 1/5th rather than 1/4th correct.
Thank You!
Adrian_Thompson wrote:oldsaw wrote: No spray on mine, but inspiration to do some Googling: http://funnyexamanswers.com/2007/10/24/find-the-height-of-a-building-using-a-barometer/What is this? Every time I click on it it crashes my browser
It is this:
From: Funny Exam Answers said: Find the height of a building using a barometer by chewyshoe on October 24, 2007 XHello there! If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on this topic. Powered by WP Greet Box At my first year of college my physics teacher told us this rather amusing story, I’ve never forgotten this story - but I certainly have forgotten everything I learned in that class. The following question was asked at the University of Copenhagen in a physics exam: “”Describe how to determine the height of a skyscraper with a barometer.” One student replied: “You tie a long piece of string to the neck of the barometer, then lower the barometer from the roof of the skyscraper to the ground. The length of the string plus the length of the barometer will equal the height of the building.” This highly original answer so incensed the examiner that the student was failed immediately. He appealed on the grounds that his answer was indisputably correct, and the university appointed an independent arbiter to decide the case. The arbiter judged that the answer was indeed correct, but did not display any noticeable knowledge of physics. To resolve the problem it was decided to call the student in and allow him six minutes in which to provide a verbal answer which showed at least a minimal familiarity with the basic principles of physics. For five minutes the student sat in silence, forehead creased in thought. The arbiter reminded him that time was running out, to which the student replied that he had several extremely relevant answers, but couldn’t make up his mind which to use. On being advised to hurry up the student replied as follows: “Firstly, you could take the barometer up to the roof of the skyscraper, drop it over the edge, and measure the time it takes to reach the ground. The height of the building can then be worked out from the formula H = 0.5g x t squared. But bad luck on the barometer. “Or if the sun is shining you could measure the height of the barometer, then set it on end and measure the length of its shadow. Then you measure the length of the skyscraper’s shadow, and thereafter it is a simple matter of proportional arithmetic to work uut the height of the skyscraper. “But if you wanted to be highly scientific about it, you could tie a short piece of string to the barometer and swing it like a pendulum, first at ground level and then on the roof of the skyscraper. The height is worked out by the difference in the gravitational restoring force T = 2 pi sqrroot (l/g). “Or if the skyscraper has an outside emergency staircase, it would be easier to walk up it and mark off the height of the skyscraper in barometer lengths, then add them up. “If you merely wanted to be boring and orthodox about it, of course, you could use the barometer to measure the air pressure on the roof of the skyscraper and on the ground, and convert the difference in millibars into feet to give the height of the building. But since we are constantly being exhorted to exercise independence of mind and apply scientific methods, undoubtedly the best way would be to knock on the janitor’s door and say to him ‘If you would like a nice new barometer, I will give you this one if you tell me the height of this skyscraper’.” The student was Nils Bohr, the first Dane to win the Nobel prize for Physics. “
In reply to oldsaw:
THX
too bad i'm too dumb to understand most of this. It is funny though.
A guy who taught some of the IT courses I took did some interesting things...
In a web dev course we were learning Javascript. We had one two hour class, at the end of which he jumped straight into making a fancy graphical calculator using JS. It was pretty complicated. The next day, first thing he gave us a pop quiz. He told us "I want you to create a calculator that can add, multiply, subtract or divide two numbers using Javascript. (Everybody starts panicking) Remember, CREATE." And then he sat down. My first thoughts were "Oh crap I can't remember all that stuff from yesterday!" Then I remembered the key word....CREATE. Figuring it was better than trying to replicate the fancy-schmancy caluclator from yesterday, I wrote a more simple calculator with a CLI-like interface that would get the job done.
A couple days later we got the test back and he told us that most of the class failed the test. He didn't want them to replicate the fancy calculator he showed us, which he admitted was overcomplicated overkill, he wanted us to CREATE, he said only a couple of people did something different. He offered me a summer job after the class, unfortunately I couldn't take it 
But I felt pretty good about passing that test 
"Wow, you do very good in school, tell me what you have learned"?
"I have learned how to take tests..."
aircooled wrote: "Wow, you do very good in school, tell me what you have learned"? "I have learned how to take tests..."
FTW!!
Philosiphy final a friend of mine took. 10 sheets of blank paper with a cover sheet to write your name on. On the first page was the word "Why: that was the test. He wrote "Why not" and turned it in after watching the class write for about 10 min. He got a 100
Kia_racer wrote: Philosiphy final a friend of mine took. 10 sheets of blank paper with a cover sheet to write your name on. On the first page was the word "Why: that was the test. He wrote "Why not" and turned it in after watching the class write for about 10 min. He got a 100
I thought the correct answer was, "Because."
We were allowed to bring equation sheets into tests on one of my physics classes in university. It was the physics of music and I really didn't need to write the equations down because I understood them and it wasn't exactly a killer class for someone who was taking a concurrent math degree. So I wrote E=mc^2 on my sheet and told the prof I'd derive everything.
Then I discovered that this was a physics class and there were actual numbers involved. My pure math courses didn't use numbers, so I'd never thought to bring a calculator 
That sheet of paper got used for a lot of longhand calculations.
I got smart and brought a slide rule to the final.
Salanis wrote:Kia_racer wrote: Philosiphy final a friend of mine took. 10 sheets of blank paper with a cover sheet to write your name on. On the first page was the word "Why: that was the test. He wrote "Why not" and turned it in after watching the class write for about 10 min. He got a 100I thought the correct answer was, "Because."
I guess that depends if you've got a fatalistic (why not?) or deterministic (because) philosophy.
Keith wrote:Salanis wrote:I guess that depends if you've got a fatalistic (why not?) or deterministic (because) philosophy.Kia_racer wrote: Philosiphy final a friend of mine took. 10 sheets of blank paper with a cover sheet to write your name on. On the first page was the word "Why: that was the test. He wrote "Why not" and turned it in after watching the class write for about 10 min. He got a 100I thought the correct answer was, "Because."
Are there any right or wrong answers in philosophy? I mean really?
Kia_racer wrote:Keith wrote:Are there any right or wrong answers in philosophy? I mean really?Salanis wrote:I guess that depends if you've got a fatalistic (why not?) or deterministic (because) philosophy.Kia_racer wrote: Philosiphy final a friend of mine took. 10 sheets of blank paper with a cover sheet to write your name on. On the first page was the word "Why: that was the test. He wrote "Why not" and turned it in after watching the class write for about 10 min. He got a 100I thought the correct answer was, "Because."
"God wills it."?
Salanis wrote:Kia_racer wrote: Philosiphy final a friend of mine took. 10 sheets of blank paper with a cover sheet to write your name on. On the first page was the word "Why: that was the test. He wrote "Why not" and turned it in after watching the class write for about 10 min. He got a 100I thought the correct answer was, "Because."
Who?
Salanis wrote:Kia_racer wrote: Philosiphy final a friend of mine took. 10 sheets of blank paper with a cover sheet to write your name on. On the first page was the word "Why: that was the test. He wrote "Why not" and turned it in after watching the class write for about 10 min. He got a 100I thought the correct answer was, "Because."
Pretty sure the correct answer is "Cuz I says so, beeeyatch. You want me to dot that other eye?"
oldsaw wrote:Adrian_Thompson wrote:It is this:oldsaw wrote: No spray on mine, but inspiration to do some Googling: http://funnyexamanswers.com/2007/10/24/find-the-height-of-a-building-using-a-barometer/What is this? Every time I click on it it crashes my browserFrom: Funny Exam Answers said: Find the height of a building using a barometer by chewyshoe on October 24, 2007 XHello there! If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on this topic. Powered by WP Greet Box At my first year of college my physics teacher told us this rather amusing story, I’ve never forgotten this story - but I certainly have forgotten everything I learned in that class. The following question was asked at the University of Copenhagen in a physics exam: “”Describe how to determine the height of a skyscraper with a barometer.” One student replied: “You tie a long piece of string to the neck of the barometer, then lower the barometer from the roof of the skyscraper to the ground. The length of the string plus the length of the barometer will equal the height of the building.” This highly original answer so incensed the examiner that the student was failed immediately. He appealed on the grounds that his answer was indisputably correct, and the university appointed an independent arbiter to decide the case. The arbiter judged that the answer was indeed correct, but did not display any noticeable knowledge of physics. To resolve the problem it was decided to call the student in and allow him six minutes in which to provide a verbal answer which showed at least a minimal familiarity with the basic principles of physics. For five minutes the student sat in silence, forehead creased in thought. The arbiter reminded him that time was running out, to which the student replied that he had several extremely relevant answers, but couldn’t make up his mind which to use. On being advised to hurry up the student replied as follows: “Firstly, you could take the barometer up to the roof of the skyscraper, drop it over the edge, and measure the time it takes to reach the ground. The height of the building can then be worked out from the formula H = 0.5g x t squared. But bad luck on the barometer. “Or if the sun is shining you could measure the height of the barometer, then set it on end and measure the length of its shadow. Then you measure the length of the skyscraper’s shadow, and thereafter it is a simple matter of proportional arithmetic to work uut the height of the skyscraper. “But if you wanted to be highly scientific about it, you could tie a short piece of string to the barometer and swing it like a pendulum, first at ground level and then on the roof of the skyscraper. The height is worked out by the difference in the gravitational restoring force T = 2 pi sqrroot (l/g). “Or if the skyscraper has an outside emergency staircase, it would be easier to walk up it and mark off the height of the skyscraper in barometer lengths, then add them up. “If you merely wanted to be boring and orthodox about it, of course, you could use the barometer to measure the air pressure on the roof of the skyscraper and on the ground, and convert the difference in millibars into feet to give the height of the building. But since we are constantly being exhorted to exercise independence of mind and apply scientific methods, undoubtedly the best way would be to knock on the janitor’s door and say to him ‘If you would like a nice new barometer, I will give you this one if you tell me the height of this skyscraper’.” The student was Nils Bohr, the first Dane to win the Nobel prize for Physics. “
Snopes says the Niels Bohr part is BS, but entertaining nonetheless!!!
aircooled wrote: "Wow, you do very good in school, tell me what you have learned"? "I have learned how to take tests..."
Evidently.
You're supposed to do well in school.
Shawn
poopshovel wrote:
Snopes says the Niels Bohr part is BS, but entertaining nonetheless!!!
Reality-based "entertainment" is rarely entertaining, unless one likes to watch human train-wrecks and feel better about themselves.
YMMV.
Keith wrote: I got smart and brought a slide rule to the final.
wtf is a slide rule, old man?
Salanis wrote:Kia_racer wrote: Philosiphy final a friend of mine took. 10 sheets of blank paper with a cover sheet to write your name on. On the first page was the word "Why: that was the test. He wrote "Why not" and turned it in after watching the class write for about 10 min. He got a 100I thought the correct answer was, "Because."
that story has been around at least 42 yrs first heard it at college the fall of '67
patgizz wrote:Keith wrote: I got smart and brought a slide rule to the final.wtf is a slide rule, old man?
Something I taught myself to use in 1989, and used in a physics exam in 1993 or so
Never mastered one but did learn to use a pilots wizz-wheel (a round slide rule).
Salanis wrote:Kia_racer wrote: Philosiphy final a friend of mine took. 10 sheets of blank paper with a cover sheet to write your name on. On the first page was the word "Why: that was the test. He wrote "Why not" and turned it in after watching the class write for about 10 min. He got a 100I thought the correct answer was, "Because."
I always thought the answer was "42".
Keith wrote:patgizz wrote:Something I taught myself to use in 1989, and used in a physics exam in 1993 or soKeith wrote: I got smart and brought a slide rule to the final.wtf is a slide rule, old man?
Same here. My grandfather gave me his when I graduated high school, and I taught myself to use it during Christmas break my freshman year of college. (Roughly the time frame above.)
At work I recently conducted a demonstration for some of the "youngsters" (a few of whom are older than I am) using a sliderule one of the old timers had in his desk.
I was always the person in class looking for the easy way out. I had a world religions history final essay with no minimum page/word requirement, on any religion to choose from. I chose a short lived cult that ended in mass suicide and completed it in less than 3 pages. The 'A' student in the class wrote 14+ pages on christianity. I got an A, she got a C. I've never seen someone so pissed off.
I was in BPA in highschool for team web design, and decided to take a few network tests at the state competition to see what would happen. I ended up in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place for the tests I took, answering C for at least 50% of the questions. On a sad note, I designed and built the web site for the team competition almost single handedly and we got 1st there. I was kicked off the team by my team mates for riding them about not helping update the site for nationals. They got last place when they couldn't explain how it worked for the judges.
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