BlueCloud2k2 Posted January 5, 2014 Report Share Posted January 5, 2014 I feel a disturbance in the force. Like several classrooms worth of students suddenly crying out in horror. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 5, 2014 Report Share Posted January 5, 2014 I am ogre oh Physics 106. L. Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2014 Who would desire Q? Surely Star Trek produced more handsome and more charismatic cosmic entities. totally wrong. Q is the title of the French film. the same film is also called Desire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2014 I am ogre oh Physics 106. PHYS 106 - Waves, Sound, Electricity and Magnetism ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 5, 2014 Report Share Posted January 5, 2014 Yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2014 I can see you being an ogre on that subject. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 5, 2014 Report Share Posted January 5, 2014 It is acknowledged nationally that the E&M quarter of the physics-without-calculus series is the hardest of the series. Mechanics is something people have some intuition about, at least until they get to rotational kinematics. But most folks have never dealt with electricity (let alone magnetism) on any basis other than plug it in and turn it on. Some crucial concepts are very abstract. And the population in that class tends to have lots of not-very-abstract thinkers who have always got by before on memorization, usually with high marks. So they desperately cling to that as something which has always worked before, and they resist developing unfamiliar tools like conceptual manipulation and meta-thinking with abstract concepts. Yet the most familiar electricity word ... volts ... is the unit of electric potential, a crucial concept and an abstraction of already abstract concepts (the amount of electrical potential energy available per unit charge that moves through a situation in space). BlueCloud2k2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2014 if i understand your post correctly, the students are those that get the material for the course, memorise it and then regurgitate that back to the lecturer implying they "know" the subject. This course requires that they actually know the concepts in depth and can apply them with critical thinking in other situations. That it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2014 Is this guy nuts or accurate? He states that Black Holes and the Big Bang are mutually exclusive in the same universe. The Black Hole, the Big Bang, and Modern Physics (has original papers) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueCloud2k2 Posted January 7, 2014 Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 I'm inclined to say nuts. He also claims he didn't get his PhD because a professor altered a paper he submitted and failed him for the alteration. He's also claiming there is a huge conspiracy to suppress evidence that the big bang didn't happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 7, 2014 Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 I have encountered his stuff before, and concluded he's a crackpot. One of my colleagues my department asked about his stuff having seen a poster at a meeting, so I read a couple of his manuscripts, and they just don't hold water. In effect, he wants to do everything with plasma physics while ignoring both gravity and light. But ... radiation dominates the structure of the early Universe (hence his war against light and standard Big Bang cosmology), and black holes are controlled completely by gravitation (hence his assertion they don't exist). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 Okay cheers, Cancer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 7, 2014 Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 Ahh ... What would life be like without loons? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 boring Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 7, 2014 Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 Drilling! I'm glad to have done my military part, but even gladder to be jolly well out of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 agree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted January 7, 2014 Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 It only took a semester of ROTC to convince me to stay a civilian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 7, 2014 Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 Having grown up on and around military bases of all four major services, I knew very well that the military was not my career of choice. Thankfully, they stopped drafting people a year or two before I turned 18 so I was never compelled into one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 Luck was with you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 8, 2014 Report Share Posted January 8, 2014 Not with me. Ah well, eleven months isn't all that long. And I got to travel a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 8, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2014 travel to where? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 8, 2014 Report Share Posted January 8, 2014 He could tell you, but then he'd have to ... well, you know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 8, 2014 Report Share Posted January 8, 2014 No you don't. If you did, I'd have to ... do something drastic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 8, 2014 Report Share Posted January 8, 2014 Hm. I google for "Swedish black ops" and there's lots of things that pop up. Guess I better be careful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 8, 2014 Report Share Posted January 8, 2014 ... You have nothing to fear, citizen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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