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I am beginning to form a suspicion.
No more than a suspicion at the moment, but I admit the feeling is growing that I was perhaps incorrect to state - in my Physics Practical exam - that we had been provided with an output voltage of 4000V.
Why, you may ask innocently? Well, when I stop and ponder my result, it does start to sound like an awfully large number of volts. Those signs, for example: "Warning! High Voltage! Danger of Death!". They refer to figures like 4000V, don't they? It seems a little... excessive... for Edexcel to insist we work with such a number. How about another number? Such as, oh I dunno, 4V?
There's another piece of evidence with suggests to my mind that perhaps that is closer to the truth: the large 4 on the setting of the power supply.
Hmm... 4, and 4000. There's a link there, isn't there? Why yes, of course! The second is merely one thousand times larger than the first. Almost as if, if I may dare to be so bold, a unit may have gone awry. For the non-Physicists amongst you, consider than a metre is made out of one thousand millimetres. Aha!
Hopefully, some nice examiner will merely dock a point for a unit somewhere, rather than chuckle and then burn the paper
Don't worry, I don't actually think it went too badly, folks
just the usual twists and turns which accompany the now-slain beast of the Physics Practical. Fire in the disco!
(P.S. Physics teachers are not allowed to read this post without commenting. Sorry.)
I am beginning to form a suspicion.
No more than a suspicion at the moment, but I admit the feeling is growing that I was perhaps incorrect to state - in my Physics Practical exam - that we had been provided with an output voltage of 4000V.
Why, you may ask innocently? Well, when I stop and ponder my result, it does start to sound like an awfully large number of volts. Those signs, for example: "Warning! High Voltage! Danger of Death!". They refer to figures like 4000V, don't they? It seems a little... excessive... for Edexcel to insist we work with such a number. How about another number? Such as, oh I dunno, 4V?
There's another piece of evidence with suggests to my mind that perhaps that is closer to the truth: the large 4 on the setting of the power supply.
Hmm... 4, and 4000. There's a link there, isn't there? Why yes, of course! The second is merely one thousand times larger than the first. Almost as if, if I may dare to be so bold, a unit may have gone awry. For the non-Physicists amongst you, consider than a metre is made out of one thousand millimetres. Aha!
Hopefully, some nice examiner will merely dock a point for a unit somewhere, rather than chuckle and then burn the paper
Don't worry, I don't actually think it went too badly, folks
just the usual twists and turns which accompany the now-slain beast of the Physics Practical. Fire in the disco!(P.S. Physics teachers are not allowed to read this post without commenting. Sorry.)
Comments
Lucy
16:36:10 - 21/05/07
Lucy
Annnd you have no eyeroll! Dom, you're a failure
16:37:00 - 21/05/07
I do, I do! *fixed for you*
As I just said on WLM, "I wouldn't leave out the symbol of vicious dismissal"
As I just said on WLM, "I wouldn't leave out the symbol of vicious dismissal"
16:42:50 - 21/05/07
Mr Kanj
Schoolboy error there Dom. I think you need to pay more attention in lessons to stop you making newbie Units mistakes! And with regards to the synoptic paper, be afraid...be very afraid!
Also, I think your sponsorship of my whiteboard might need renewing since your last ad was amended homophobically by one of the little darlings in 9S. Hence i was forced to remove it.
And with regards to the synoptic paper, be afraid...be very afraid!Also, I think your sponsorship of my whiteboard might need renewing since your last ad was amended homophobically by one of the little darlings in 9S. Hence i was forced to remove it.
17:00:29 - 22/05/07
Andy Kings
Bahahahaha.
Why don't my staff read my blog?
Why don't my staff read my blog?
18:24:18 - 22/05/07
doctor dee
All 69 of them Kingsy?
18:15:09 - 23/05/07
Andy Kings
Whoever you are, you're catching on
With a z though, please
With a z though, please
22:04:09 - 23/05/07
Miss Higgs-Boson
hehe, well you are one in a long line of students who have fallen into the trap of thinking that a practical exam would let students use 4000V I am sure... or perhaps not but I hope that has adequately appeased any regret about your little numerical glitch! p.s sorry about the late reply, it was only today that scientists ahve finally started to believe I exist (mainly because I bribed them with brownies!)... Good luck in the exams.
Miss Higgs-Boson
Miss Higgs-Boson
14:34:01 - 08/06/07
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