Re: Birthday Wish

[Herbert H Gottlieb <herbgottlieb@JUNO.COM>]

It seems as if you are wishing for too much.  Why not scale it down a bit
so it can be possible to achieve in our lifetime?

Herb Gottlieb from New York City
(Where we would be happy  if our students could learn that speed
and velocity are not the same thing)


On Sat, 10 Apr 1999 00:12:32 -0500 brian whatcott <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>
writes:
> It's my birthday this month.
> And I have a little birthday wish.
> It's not much.    But you could make it happen.
>
> I wish that all high school physics students
> could work problems using three equations of constant acceleration,
> namely:
> v = u + a.t
> v^2 = u^2 + 2.a.x
> x = u.t + 1/2 a.t^2
>
> AND
> that they could work final temperatures of mixes of liquids or
> solid and liquid using the relation:
>
> mass1 x specific heat1 x rise in temperature =
> mass2 x specific heat2 x fall in temperature
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Brian
>
> brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
> Altus OK