Thursday, March 12, 2009

Physics is stupid...

Hmm...this is actually a post on Wednesday, but the main focus IS about the carp physics lesson. Come to that a little later.

So the day started...with the stupid Chinese test. Some parts were seriously freaking hard. But can do actually. So hopefully never mind...

Next was(drum rolls please) Physics. So we were supposed to do a practical. Involving heat capacity and energy transferred and some bull****. So first me and J.Lau (On this occasion, he was actually of some help,surprisingly. More of that later.)connected everything according to the circuit. Guess what? Nothing happened to the ammeter and voltmeter. At all. So we did the common sense approach and asked the teacher. She was trying to make the arrangement work like, for about 15 minutes. That was when everyone started complaining of not having their ammeters not working either. Good game.

So imagine our surprise when KM and Daryl actually came up with and arrangement that had the voltmeter AND ammeter working. at that time J. Lau and me were troubleshooting i.e. testing out every single piece of equipment to see what was faulty. Or went wrong. So we were having sneaking suspicions that it was the calorimeter (the thing we were supposed to measure) that was screwed. But when KM came up with the working circuit, J. Lau started being retarded and went around. Being retarded. After a while trying to fix the circuit, I decided to be fat and go around too.

It became boring after some time so I dismantled our circuit entirely and copied KM's arrangement. Guess what. The meters freaking worked OMGZZZ. So J.Lau was surprised and was staring at the new and working circuit for some time when he suddenly realized that the calorimeter was not part of the circuit. well then. No wonder the meters worked.

By this time some of the lab techs were coming in to check on the circuits. They couldn't do anything about it anyway though. So dunno whose weird idea, saying that the batteries were not powerful enough, and that they were getting in power ports can you believe it...

To cut a REALLY long story short. at the end of two hours of achieving nothing, Ms Seah told us all what we had suspected from the start: The calorimeter was screwed. WTF. And we had to redo the practical. So we started to argue about what time slot to use for the reprac. (KM was pushing for a CL slot to used. Sorry KM, it wasn't to be...) and Ms Seah finally decided to do it the next practical lesson. Which pushes us one week behind other classes. WTF.

P.S. Just a tidbit. When we were choosing the time slot, Wen Jun humped Candice! OMFGZZZ. Not that he did it on purpose. but he was in that position when Jit decided to give WJ a really hard shove. Forward. Pro man Jit. GG Candice. You must have been traumatized...XD

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