{"id":431,"date":"2005-10-10T23:35:14","date_gmt":"2005-10-11T06:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/wp\/?p=431"},"modified":"2005-10-13T17:53:26","modified_gmt":"2005-10-14T00:53:26","slug":"431","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/431\/","title":{"rendered":"Music and Homework"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recent favortes<\/strong>
\nWeezer – Beverly Hills
\nDHT – Listen to Your Heart – both the dance mix and the slow mix
\nMichael Andrews ft Gary Jules – Mad World (From the Donnie Darko soundtrack)<\/p>\n

In other news, the parents are trapped in Atlanta for the night due to a delayed flight due to bad weather. And writing that just now made me say, “Oh crap,” because I had yet to make arrangements for them to be picked up – since I will be at work when they arrive tomorrow. Fortunately, I have good friends and they put up with me calling them at 11:30.<\/p>\n

It looks like it will be a late night doing my Chem E homework. Here’s a sampler of why I think I’m going to hate this class before too long (somehow, it hasn’t gotten there yet):<\/p>\n

A 150-lbm astronaut took his bathroom scale (a spring scale) and a beam scale (compares masses) to the moon where the local gravity is 5.48 ft\/s2<\/sup>. Determine how much he will weigh (a<\/em>) on the spring scale and (b<\/em>) on the beam scale.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Disregarding the gender-stereotypical astronaut for now, here was my response:<\/p>\n

I strongly object to the term “weigh” being used to refer to comparing masses as with the beam scale. This seems sloppy and terribly imprecise, even if it is colloquial terminology.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I then went on to solve the problem, which, in case you were wondering:
\n(a) 25.5-lbf
\n(b) 150-lbm (even though the book states that the answer is 150-lbf, this is wrong, as I explained above)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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