At the start of class, Johnny and Coats-Haan once again competed for best paper passer outer, and today Johnny showed clear improvement. We then checked the "Kinematics Problems II" worksheet, and turned in any work from yesterday as needed. We then went over a work sheet reviewing graph shapes, after which Coats-Haan told us a story/joke, about a physicist, a psychologist and an engineer giving an advice to a struggling cow farmer. Though it was a valiant effort, the class did not understand the joke, and thus did not actually find it funny. But it did teach the lesson that physicists like to simplify things. Also, we got a little off topic and discussed popcorn reading, and Coats-Haan told an interesting story about not being able to pronounce Pseudopod correctly, which has clearly scarred her for life. To end the class, we did 3 problems from a pair check on speed and velocity, and were assigned problems 1-6 from p. 52 in the book for homework.
Question of the Day Answer:
As was somewhat previously mentioned, the physicist wants to assume the cow is a sphere to simplify things, as physicists have a tendency to do. This was the punchline of the joke, which no one understood, and thus was not funny to the class.
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