Badger 1,800 Posted February 7, 2019 Report Share Posted February 7, 2019 8 hours ago, Pariah said: I missed two days of school (my birthday and my brother's birthday, as it turned out) my freshman year in high school due to a blizzard. It was legit; we had no electricity at our house for nearly a week. Our situation was worse than most. Some people in town were only without power for two or three days. Did I mention that my birthday is in the middle of May? Latest I remember snow, is first week of April (sometime in the mid-1990s). And it was in 1-2 inch range. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Logan.1179 6,326 Posted February 8, 2019 Report Share Posted February 8, 2019 Pariah 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cancer 7,054 Posted February 9, 2019 Report Share Posted February 9, 2019 Welcome to my Physics 1061 class. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Badger 1,800 Posted February 9, 2019 Report Share Posted February 9, 2019 I wonder what a Physics class was like in the year 1061. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Starlord 5,289 Posted February 9, 2019 Report Share Posted February 9, 2019 A lot of Aristotle this and Aristotle that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bazza 4,780 Posted February 9, 2019 Report Share Posted February 9, 2019 Probably not Aristotle, but Plato. Aristotle only really came back to the West in the 1200s due to Saint Albert the Great. Pariah 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cancer 7,054 Posted February 9, 2019 Report Share Posted February 9, 2019 * visions of a sage's sarcophagus triumpantly carried into Britain as treasure looted from a famous land now gone decadent * Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pariah 8,301 Posted February 9, 2019 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2019 On 2/7/2019 at 4:05 PM, Badger said: Latest I remember snow, is first week of April (sometime in the mid-1990s). And it was in 1-2 inch range. I've also seen snow in Colorado on my youngest brother's birthday, which is in September. Hence the old joke about Colorado's four seasons being Winter, June, July, and August. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Badger 1,800 Posted February 9, 2019 Report Share Posted February 9, 2019 6 hours ago, Pariah said: I've also seen snow in Colorado on my youngest brother's birthday, which is in September. Hence the old joke about Colorado's four seasons being Winter, June, July, and August. Yeah, in keeping up with baseball it seems the Colorado Rockies usually have at least one snow out during the season Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pariah 8,301 Posted February 9, 2019 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2019 I read an article a couple of weeks ago about the five coldest games in MLB history. Three of them were in Denver. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cancer 7,054 Posted February 11, 2019 Report Share Posted February 11, 2019 ... aaaaand the university is closed again tomorrow. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pariah 8,301 Posted February 11, 2019 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2019 A 1750-kg truck traveling at 100.0 m/s threatens some nuns in a crosswalk. A superhero named Stupendous Man uses his super strength to slow the truck to 50.0 m/s which buys enough time for the nuns to get out of the road. His heroic effort takes 10.2 s, and the truck travels 765.31 m during that time. 1. How much work does Stupendous Man do on the truck? 2. How much force must Stupendous Man exert on the truck to slow it down? 3. What power does Stupendous Man produce in his effort? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Old Man 11,640 Posted February 11, 2019 Report Share Posted February 11, 2019 That’s a fast truck. Starlord and Pariah 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Starlord 5,289 Posted February 11, 2019 Report Share Posted February 11, 2019 It would easily win the pole at any NASCAR truck series race! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Badger 1,800 Posted February 11, 2019 Report Share Posted February 11, 2019 What is Stupendous Man power level? What? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Starlord 5,289 Posted February 11, 2019 Report Share Posted February 11, 2019 We need a character write-up. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Logan.1179 6,326 Posted February 11, 2019 Report Share Posted February 11, 2019 3 hours ago, Pariah said: 3. What power does Stupendous Man produce in his effort? Super strength. It says so right in the question. Come on, teach. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pariah 8,301 Posted February 11, 2019 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2019 "This isn't an English assignment, so I won't knock off points for missing semicolons and the like. But it's also not a tweet or a text message. It needs to include complete sentences; it needs to be something I can actually read; and it needs to address the question. Mainly, it needs to make sense. If you submit something that looks like the President sent it out at 2:30 in the morning, you probably won't get a very good grade." Logan.1179 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Badger 1,800 Posted February 11, 2019 Report Share Posted February 11, 2019 The answer is 47. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Badger 1,800 Posted February 11, 2019 Report Share Posted February 11, 2019 33 minutes ago, Pariah said: "This isn't an English assignment, so I won't knock off points for missing semicolons and the like. But it's also not a tweet or a text message. It needs to include complete sentences; it needs to be something I can actually read; and it needs to address the question. Mainly, it needs to make sense. If you submit something that looks like the President sent it out at 2:30 in the morning, you probably won't get a very good grade." But, the question is non-sensical, what truck can be driven at 200+ MPH. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Old Man 11,640 Posted February 11, 2019 Report Share Posted February 11, 2019 Craftsman trucks seem to top out around 180mph. But there's always Shockwave. 'Murica! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Badger 1,800 Posted February 11, 2019 Report Share Posted February 11, 2019 yes, but how did it get up the speed to threaten nuns in downtown. Edit: In my area, you are lucky to reach the speed limit before having to stop at the next stoplight. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rails 129 Posted February 11, 2019 Report Share Posted February 11, 2019 If you're going to drive 200+ mph, are you going to bother trying to stop at lights? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
novi 31 Posted February 11, 2019 Report Share Posted February 11, 2019 5 hours ago, Pariah said: A 1750-kg truck traveling at 100.0 m/s threatens some nuns in a crosswalk. A superhero named Stupendous Man uses his super strength to slow the truck to 50.0 m/s which buys enough time for the nuns to get out of the road. His heroic effort takes 10.2 s, and the truck travels 765.31 m during that time. 1. How much work does Stupendous Man do on the truck? 2. How much force must Stupendous Man exert on the truck to slow it down? 3. What power does Stupendous Man produce in his effort? Assuming standard physics word problem rules and constant forces, and not showing my work because I don't want to type in that many equations. And assuming I remember how significant digits work: 1. 6.563 x 10^6 J 2. 8.576 x 10^3 N 3. 6.43 x 10^5 W Yes, I got an A in AP Physics. Why do you ask? Pariah, Lucius, Old Man and 1 other 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pariah 8,301 Posted February 11, 2019 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2019 In my defense, I am a first-year Physics teacher. I'm used to dealing with things on a much smaller scale. That, and I was writing the problem as the tardy bell was ringing this morning. Let's see if any of my students catch the problem as well as you all did. Gold stars for everyone! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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