My students are mostly bright, motivated, and a good group to work with. I like them, I really do.
Last week in lab, while I was giving the prelab lecture, I said to them, "You can ignore the mass and friction of the pulleys, and the mass of the string." Then I had a funny idea. I wrote on the board:
"You may ignore:
Friction in pulley
Mass of pulley
Mass of string
Air resistance
Neutrinos
Light pressure
Tidal forces relating to our Moon
Temporal anomolies"
And damned if they didn't all scribble it down in their notebooks without so much as a word in response or questioning!
I will have to be careful what I tell these passive sponges of mine from now on. Next week I will read them "Neutrinos" by John Updike. :)
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