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// Discussing Problem Notebooks in AP Physics
Dr. Dell: Let me tell you the story of Susan Lee. In all her years in elementary school and middle school, she got straight A's. At Harvard, she got straight A's. At TJ, she got straight A's, except in my class. But she took away something very valuable -- her problem notebook. Word got around that she had this amazingly organized book of all the classic physics problems, and then random guys would go to her dorm to look at it.
Dr. Dell: So you see, your physics notebook can actually enhance your social life! -
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// Emma is playing assassins and just got Ms. Montgomery to escort her to class by simply saying "Someone is trying to kill me."
// Ms. Montgomery is concerned and talks to Dr. Dell. Dr. Dell then addresses the class.
Dr. Dell: I don't care if you guys play assassins, but once you start telling teachers that you're going to be killed without explaining it, that's bad. If you do this again, I'm going to join every alliance and KILL YOU ALL. -
#3254 + ( )/57 - [ Report ]
// Dr. Dell has, once again, wandered off course during a lecture.
DrD: So when I get home, I go downstairs to the sauna in my basement, take off my clothes, and devise the cruelest, most sadistic problems I can for the problem sets. Then I rush out to type them up and email them out. -
#3122 + ( )/93 - [ Report ]
// In AP Physics, after Dr. Dell wrote a problem on the board for the class to solve
Dr. Dell (writing on the board):
And the disciple said
"How the @#$! do you do this problem?"
And the master said
"Don't cuss at me you impudent fool."
And the disciple kicked him in the shin.
And the master said, "Okay, Okay! Superposition of ring fields!" -
#2875 + ( )/107 - [ Report ]
// During AP Physics
Dr. Dell: In most of the problems that we do, we're dealing with just one particle. Now this makes the math nice but it also leads to the seductive thought that the potential energy is OF the particle, which is NOT true! Don't give in to this seduction! ...because then you'll be pregnant with bad ideas. -
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// AP Physics, a student is asleep
Dr. Dell: So, if I drop this stapler *drops stapler from one hand to the other* it accelerates at 9.81 meters per second squared. If I drop this chair *picks up empty chair and drops it on the floor* it accelerates at 9.81 meters per second squared. If I were to take this sleeping student and drop him, he would accelerate at 9.81 meters per second squared. -
#2457 + ( )/39 - [ Report ]
// Wire in a magnetic field
Dr. Dell: So which way will the current go, clockwise or counterclockwise?
// People mess with the right-hand-rule
Student: Counter-clockwise
Dr. Dell: How many people vote counter-clockwise?
// People raise their hands
Dr. Dell: Good, so do I. So the current is going counterclockwise...
// Dell resumes lecturing for a few seconds
Dr. Dell: Wait, no, it's clockwise.