Radiators and marathon runners
Apr. 24th, 2003 01:16 pmSo... yeah. I am a complete and utter moron.
I've been trying to revise Physics. Because I revise stuff backwards, I've only today got up to my first book. The notes were written in September 2001, and my brain seems to have been on holiday for that entire year. For example, I have written "Silver surfaces are good reflectors of heat." So far, so hoopy. I then go on to say: "For example, radiators and marathon runners."
Gah.
A few pages later, I've written "Voltage = volts." Understandably, this is followed by "Current = amps."
And then by "Ohms = ohms."
It's true, but I don't think that's what I meant.
About the only thing I can remember from L5 physics is the fact a ray of light passing from a more dense to a less dense medium will refract towards the normal. The only reason I know this is because Becca had a song. She used to sing it to help herself remember it during tests. Profoundly distracting, but that was all part of the fun. The next verse proclaimed that "The incident ray, the refracted ray and the normal all lie in the same PLANE!"
I never liked that one. It always seemed somewhat self-evident. Besides, it reminded me of an embarrassing incident when I was in the first year. I was asked what happens to a light ray as it passes from air to water, and as I didn't know the answer and was also still in my don't-touch-me-don't-hurt-me-don't-look-at-me phase, I said the first thing that came into my head and told her the light ray slows down.
Pedar later said I was absolutely right and that you can travel faster than light in water, and in vain did I try to tell him that within three weeks at a new school, I'd already established a reputation as being (just plain) weird.
And Physics is supposed to be the subject I'm best at. Oy vey. Although, I recently discovered that according to the National Curriculum, most people do Dual Award science. By doing separate, I'm the freak and not the other way round. I've no way of confirming this, but it seemed odd to me.
That's all the revision I'm doing for now. Paramount are showing season 5 M*A*S*H episodes again today, and I plan to take advantage of that fact.
I've been trying to revise Physics. Because I revise stuff backwards, I've only today got up to my first book. The notes were written in September 2001, and my brain seems to have been on holiday for that entire year. For example, I have written "Silver surfaces are good reflectors of heat." So far, so hoopy. I then go on to say: "For example, radiators and marathon runners."
Gah.
A few pages later, I've written "Voltage = volts." Understandably, this is followed by "Current = amps."
And then by "Ohms = ohms."
It's true, but I don't think that's what I meant.
About the only thing I can remember from L5 physics is the fact a ray of light passing from a more dense to a less dense medium will refract towards the normal. The only reason I know this is because Becca had a song. She used to sing it to help herself remember it during tests. Profoundly distracting, but that was all part of the fun. The next verse proclaimed that "The incident ray, the refracted ray and the normal all lie in the same PLANE!"
I never liked that one. It always seemed somewhat self-evident. Besides, it reminded me of an embarrassing incident when I was in the first year. I was asked what happens to a light ray as it passes from air to water, and as I didn't know the answer and was also still in my don't-touch-me-don't-hurt-me-don't-look-at-me phase, I said the first thing that came into my head and told her the light ray slows down.
Pedar later said I was absolutely right and that you can travel faster than light in water, and in vain did I try to tell him that within three weeks at a new school, I'd already established a reputation as being (just plain) weird.
And Physics is supposed to be the subject I'm best at. Oy vey. Although, I recently discovered that according to the National Curriculum, most people do Dual Award science. By doing separate, I'm the freak and not the other way round. I've no way of confirming this, but it seemed odd to me.
That's all the revision I'm doing for now. Paramount are showing season 5 M*A*S*H episodes again today, and I plan to take advantage of that fact.