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Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Why physics makes no sense (at least to non-physicists)

Today while grading a lab report I came across this gem:

"When I increases the Magnetic field increases"

For a brief moment I thought, "That's bad grammar." But quickly got over it and gave the student full points. (extra points to the first person to say why the above sentence is correct both in terms of physics and in terms of grammar.)
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8 comments:

  1. JaredMarch 9, 2010 at 2:34:00 PM PST

    I = current.

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  2. Joseph SmidtMarch 9, 2010 at 3:43:00 PM PST

    That's really funny.

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  3. JaredMarch 9, 2010 at 3:49:00 PM PST

    I guess I should have said, "I is current" to keep with the ungrammatical-sounding but actually correct theme.

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  4. Jared*March 9, 2010 at 7:04:00 PM PST

    Darn! Jared beat me to it.

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  5. Ben PrattMarch 10, 2010 at 12:36:00 AM PST

    Nice!

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  6. Quantumleap42March 10, 2010 at 5:02:00 AM PST

    ...and the neuropsych guy gets the extra credit...for a physics question...on a physics blog.

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  7. Joseph SmidtMarch 10, 2010 at 7:37:00 AM PST

    Yes, good job Jared.

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  8. BillMarch 10, 2010 at 7:49:00 AM PST

    This reminds me of when I was having someone proofread my senior thesis. He was constantly confused as to why I was referring to psi when my paper had nothing to do with pressures (let alone pounds per square inch).

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