Cancer 6,923 Posted January 16 Report Share Posted January 16 I wonder if they'll make me drink hemlock if I introduce my students to log-log plots. Pariah 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pariah 8,069 Posted January 17 Author Report Share Posted January 17 Next week's physics question: Does Kepler's Third Law apply to the Galilean Moons as they orbit Jupiter? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bazza 4,728 Posted January 17 Report Share Posted January 17 8 hours ago, Cancer said: I wonder if they'll make me drink hemlock if I introduce my students to log-log plots. Probably not. Based on a previous case you drink hemlock if you do two things: corrupt the youth and impiety. Perhaps introducing log-log plots is equivalent to corrupting the youth and is impious, so maybe you’ll get to drink after all? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cancer 6,923 Posted January 17 Report Share Posted January 17 2 hours ago, Pariah said: Next week's physics question: Does Kepler's Third Law apply to the Galilean Moons as they orbit Jupiter? Would you like me to send you the lab exercise we made for that? Involves iamge analysis from freely available data using freely available software. Probably a bit beyond high school level, though. Not much (it's the algebra-based course), but it'd be a stretch. ========================== 53 minutes ago, Bazza said: Probably not. Based on a previous case you drink hemlock if you do two things: corrupt the youth and impiety. Perhaps introducing log-log plots is equivalent to corrupting the youth and is impious, so maybe you’ll get to drink after all? That's pretty much exactly what I was asking. Because a number of people in the class will answer "yes" if I ask them if they think the word "logarithm" is a Satanic incantation... Pariah 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Old Man 11,477 Posted January 17 Report Share Posted January 17 1 hour ago, Cancer said: Would you like me to send you the lab exercise we made for that? Involves iamge analysis from freely available data using freely available software. Probably a bit beyond high school level, though. Not much (it's the algebra-based course), but it'd be a stretch. Oh no, they're collaborating. I feel like I'm witnessing the founding of the Legion of Doom. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cancer 6,923 Posted January 17 Report Share Posted January 17 You are much, much too late coming to that concern, Cancer mused silently. Old Man 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bazza 4,728 Posted January 17 Report Share Posted January 17 The Injustice Scientists of America. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pariah 8,069 Posted January 17 Author Report Share Posted January 17 ...and I just discovered that the whiniest, neediest, most high-maintenance student from my 1st Semester ACT Prep class is in my Astronomy class for 2nd semester. Shoot me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pariah 8,069 Posted January 17 Author Report Share Posted January 17 10 hours ago, Old Man said: Oh no, they're collaborating. I feel like I'm witnessing the founding of the Legion of Doom. Join us. You know you want to. Cancer 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Old Man 11,477 Posted January 17 Report Share Posted January 17 11 minutes ago, Pariah said: ...and I just discovered that the whiniest, neediest, most high-maintenance student from my 1st Semester ACT Prep class is in my Astronomy class for 2nd semester. Shoot me. It really seems like shooting the student would be more appropriate, but okay. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pariah 8,069 Posted January 17 Author Report Share Posted January 17 5 minutes ago, Old Man said: It really seems like shooting the student would be more appropriate, but okay. There's more paperwork if you do it that way. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
L. Marcus 2,430 Posted January 17 Report Share Posted January 17 What if we tranquilize the student? Y'know, for research purposes? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pariah 8,069 Posted January 17 Author Report Share Posted January 17 "Hey, kid, does this rag smell like ether to you?" Old Man 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
archer 1,915 Posted January 20 Report Share Posted January 20 I got fired from my last job even though I always gave 100%. Apparently that's not how you grade exams. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cancer 6,923 Posted January 20 Report Share Posted January 20 No, it's not. Mind you, going here for them also will get you in trouble. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
archer 1,915 Posted January 20 Report Share Posted January 20 13 minutes ago, Cancer said: No, it's not. Mind you, going here for them also will get you in trouble. Do they mind grading on a Bell curve? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cancer 6,923 Posted January 20 Report Share Posted January 20 Even gaussian random numbers will get you in trouble. But it may take longer. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cancer 6,923 Posted January 21 Report Share Posted January 21 Quote 4. Select the value of the square root of 16 from the values below: Four 4 No, this 4 Not this one log10(10,000) 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 the cube root of 64 Whiskey Tango Foxtrot None of the above All of the above Kill me now, please The art of writing multiple-choice questions. EDIT: Canvas in particular makes it very easy to do this. Unfortunately, one thing it can't do is change on a student-by-student basis which answer is supposedly correct. Nor can you avoid having one answer be designated as correct. Annoying limitations in these stupid learning management systems. Pariah and Logan.1179 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Badger 1,796 Posted January 23 Report Share Posted January 23 On 1/17/2021 at 2:50 AM, Old Man said: Oh no, they're collaborating. I feel like I'm witnessing the founding of the Legion of Doom. I was the never mentioned 14th member.😏 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Old Man 11,477 Posted January 23 Report Share Posted January 23 2 hours ago, Badger said: I was the never mentioned 14th member.😏 Is that like being the fifth Beatle? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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Bazza 4,728 Posted January 23 Report Share Posted January 23 Quote Dr. Brad Cox, Ph.D of Manassas, Virginia, died on January 2, 2021 at his residence. Dr. Cox was a computer scientist known mostly for creating the Objective – C programming language with his business partner, Tom Love, and for his work in software engineering (specifically software reuse) and software componentry. The late Steve Jobs', NeXT, licensed the Objective-C language for it's new operating system, NEXTSTEP. NeXT eventually acquired Objective- C from Stepstone. Objective-C continued to be the primary programming language for writing software for Apple's OS X and iOS. The software that powered NeXTStep, OpenStep (Java is a ‘spinoff’), Mac OS X, and iOS (iPhone & iPads) was because of Brad Cox. It was because of Objective-C, that Tim Berners-Lee was able to create the WWW and its bowser, on NeXTStep. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cancer 6,923 Posted January 23 Report Share Posted January 23 4 hours ago, Logan.1179 said: "... and my faithful lackeys, my fellow students." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pariah 8,069 Posted January 26 Author Report Share Posted January 26 I'm spending a lot of time programming stuff into Canvas right now, because I just don't want to grade papers for a couple of weeks. Is this bad? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cancer 6,923 Posted January 27 Report Share Posted January 27 No; I've been doing that to try to survive. Students tend not to like it so much, though. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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