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How do you ride a bicycle?
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:27:32 GMT, in rec.bicycles.tech Michael Press
wrote: Ice floats because of its lattice structure. I just tried it. The ice did not float; it fell on the floor. ??? I had him for mechanics; that was his chemistry question. I think that's heading in the right direction, though. The commonly accepted length was about four pages; your whole grade depended on your response. Jones |
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!Jones wrote:
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 18:28:06 -0400, in rec.bicycles.tech "Phil" wrote: You ride a bike by turning right when you're falling to the right. Same goes for the left. You would not have passed. He wanted a discussion of angular momentum and orthogonal vectors...the "right hand rule" and all that jazz. The problem was to figure out what he wanted. A correct answer usually ran about four pages or so. Next? That would depend on whether or not that class was required. I suppose it would be a visit to the registrar to change your major... I hear psychology is an interesting topic and lends itself to such simplicity. I like not living from paycheck to paycheck, thank you very much -- Phil |
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(PeteCresswell) wrote:
Per !Jones: I once had a mechanics prof who was famous for giving one simple question on the final. "How do you ride a bicycle?" was one example. Another that I recall was "Why is the sky blue?" Your entire grade depended on your response and he didn't give passing grades away. My question was "Why does ice float?" which was comparatively easy to "Why is the sky blue?" I like the story about the prof who, on a philosophy final, posed one question: "Why?". Students filled entire blue books... but supposedly the student who got an "A", answered "Why Not?" http://www.snopes.com/college/exam/oneword.asp -- Phil |
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Per Phil:
http://www.snopes.com/college/exam/oneword.asp I kind of figured Snopes would have had it covered...-) -- PeteCresswell |
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datakoll aka gene daniels wrote:
flip over dah rock and what do ya see.... Sow bugs. -- Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia The weather is here, wish you were beautiful -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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The problem was to figure out what he wanted. A correct answer usually ran about four pages or so. This is of course a failing in the education system. Whole classes struggle to analyse what the question actually means because the ******s that set the questions are often quite dumb. You pass 'exams' by feeding back to the teacher what they told you, but in a different format. It's got very little to do with learning. How do I ride a bike? Laying down. |
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, !Jones wrote: On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:27:32 GMT, in rec.bicycles.tech Michael Press wrote: Ice floats because of its lattice structure. I just tried it. The ice did not float; it fell on the floor. ??? I had him for mechanics; that was his chemistry question. I think that's heading in the right direction, though. The commonly accepted length was about four pages; your whole grade depended on your response. It is easy to go awry analyzing buoyancy. Last I heard neither the blue scattering of the atmosphere nor the proximate cause for the expanded solid H2O lattice were satisfactorily accounted for. -- Michael Press |
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On Aug 11, 6:58 am, "(PeteCresswell)" wrote:
Per Phil: http://www.snopes.com/college/exam/oneword.asp I kind of figured Snopes would have had it covered...-) For my comprehensive exams at the end of university one of my professors made a mistake in his phrasing and left out the bit where the question says "explain in an essay ... blah blah blah". It so happens that this particular set of exams was tailor made for me. I chose the teachers, was given lists of reading material in advance. No other student had those questions. Only me. Knowing the professor very well I looked at this yes/no question that clearly was not intended to be a yes/no question and wrote the word "yes" on the first page of the blue book. I then skipped two pages and started my actual essay. -M |
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