Re: Velocity of a falling bullet

On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 11:13:36 -0700, Jim Thompson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 10:08:36 -0800, John Larkin
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>[snip]
>>The physics is really not so bad, and quite cool if you have a
>>real-life problem to solve. The irony here is that the only course I
>>ever flunked was Dynamics.
>>
>>John
>
>I *loved* dynamics and Hamilton's method... statics and Mohr's circle
>drove me into total boredom.
>
>I failed Econ the first time thru, D the second time, I can't figure
>out why... I went to every class... and slept ;-)
>
>                                        ...Jim Thompson

My dynamics course was heavily weighted by homework assignments. They
were numerous and tedious, like the one with the fly crawling on the
spinning world globe in the moving van traveling in some direction on
the spinning Earth, orbiting the sun... calculate the force on the
fly. Stuff like that. I had a new wife, two jobs, and a low boredom
threshold. I took it again in summer school: we only got to about
chapter 4 that time, so I got a B.

Yeah, those 8AM classes were a bear, especially after drinking all
night in New Orleans. I had Materials Science at 8, and the instructor
kept throwing erasers at me to wake me up.

Dear old school daze!

John