Re: green stars

From	jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com>
Newsgroups	rec.arts.sf.written, sci.physics
Subject	Re: green stars
Date	2015-10-06 13:34 +0000
Organization	"Have EDDT, will travel"
Message-ID	<PM0005216FC0AD0999@aca41669.ipt.aol.com> (permalink)
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Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> On 10/5/2015 6:02 AM, jmfbahciv wrote:
>> Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
>>> In article <PM00052148602F2733@aca41f97.ipt.aol.com>,
>>> jmfbahciv  <See.above@aol.com> wrote:
>>>> Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
>>>>> In article <mur018$5ei$1@panix3.panix.com>,
>>>>> William December Starr <wdstarr@panix.com> wrote:
>>>>>> In article <nvnzI5.15Dv@kithrup.com>,
>>>>>> djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) said:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I managed to get an A in my one physics course (Physics 10, aka
>>>>>>> Bonehead Physics), but I do not understand anything past Newton.
>>>>>>> I haven't had to.  I take it on faith.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Did you drop a '1' off the end of that, or was the course really
>>>>>> "Physics [ten]?"
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes.
>>>>>
>>>>> Its official title, I think, was "physics for Humanities Majors".
>>>>> Everybody enrolled in the College of Letters and Sciences, who
>>>>> wasn't actually majoring in a science, had to take it.  In a
>>>>> similar way, those majoring in math or sciences, if they couldn't
>>>>> pass a basic entrance exam in written English (in which case
>>>>> they'd take the standard lower-division English courses like the
>>>>> rest of us) would take English 10, which of course was called
>>>>> Bonehead English.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mind you, this was nearly sixty years ago; I don't know what they
>>>>> do now.
>>>>>
>>>> When I went to college, we were required to take an Honors Physics
>>>> course which was real physics without using calculus.  The art
>>>> majors were not interested in the course until they figured out
>>>> it helped them with their art which was mostly drawing and
>>>> painting.
>>>
>>> We did not, thank heaven, have to use calculus.  Just algebra.
>>> At which I was not very good either.
>>>
>>> I know I've told this story before, but it's been a while.  If
>>> you remember it from last time, hit 'n' now.
>>>
>>> I was living in a rooming house where we did our own cooking.
>>> There was a kitchen on the ground floor and another (small)
>>> kitchen on the third floor, where I lived.  One of my housemates
>>> was not only taking Physics 10 when I was, but we had the same
>>> section with the same TA.  So we got the same problem sets, which
>>> the TA handed out at the Tuesday section and got back at the
>>> Thursday section.
>>>
>>> So every Wednesday evening she and I would settle down in the
>>> third-floor kitchen and do the problem sets.  She had, and knew
>>> how to use, a slide rule.  I didn't.
>>>
>>> So we would both read the problem, and I would set up the
>>> equation, and she would solve it with her slide rule.  We would
>>> thus have exactly the same answers on our problem sets, and get
>>> the same grades on them.  We got some credit toward our final
>>> grade from the problem sets, more from the midterm, and a lot
>>> more from the final.
>>>
>>> Came the final, and we were put into a much larger room than we'd
>>> taken the class in, so we could be separated from one another by
>>> several seats; standard procedure.  Memory tells me now that
>>> there were several hundred problems to solve; it was probably
>>> more like 100.  And there I sat, with no slide rule, just basic
>>> arithmetic, at which I have always stunk.  (And there were no
>>> electronic calculators, back in the early 1950s.)
>>>
>>> After a moment of despair, I reasoned, "Well, this is a physics
>>> class, not a math class, so if I set up all the equations and
>>> then solve as many as there's time for by brute force and scratch
>>> paper, I'll get at least partial credit."  So I did that.
>>
>> That's how engineers do it :-).  Crunching numbers is left
>> as an exercise for computers.  I always thought that computers
>> were invented so engineers didn't have to do arithmetic. ;-)
>>
> No, the ORIGINAL computers were kept around because the male engineers
> liked having pretty girls to look at and hit on.

You don't know what you're talkking about.  Those women worked hard.


/BAH

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