So here’s an interesting phenomenon: when something so out of the ordinary happens to you and it doesn’t really feel like it actually happened until you tell someone about it. And the more people you relate the story to, the more it feels like it really did occur. You’re not quite satisfied that you know …
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I do bite my thumb, sir.
At my work, we have this refrigerator in the IT support office, and one day someone brought in a set of magnetic words specially made for constructing Shakespearean insults. I suppose it was really only a matter of time until someone put together the following sentence: [CODPIECE] [SNAKE] [FIRE] [OFF] [FOUL] [MILK] [SUBSTANCE] [ON] [SAUCY] …
Just the flu
It’s like when you’re sick and you’re wondering how it felt when you weren’t sick, because you didn’t really pay much attention to that feeling, and now that you’re sick you can’t seem to recall how it felt before. Then suddenly one day everything is back to normal, and you don’t really bother to notice …
Engineering Physics II test – in medias res
But then, I had an epiphany—in an RCL circuit with alternating current, the current reaches a maximum value only at the resonance frequency. At the resonance frequency, the inductive reactance is equal to the capacitive reactance, which means that the total impedance of the circuit is just the resistance of the resistor. This also means …
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Newtonian Mechanics
Newton’s first law of motion states that an object in motion will continue to move in the same direction and speed unless acted upon by an outside force. This tendency to resist a change in motion is called inertia. Mass is a measurement of how much matter an object has, but it can also be …