January 2010
15 posts
“Don’t take life too seriously; you’ll never get out of it alive.”
– Elbert Hubbard
Story Time
fuckyeahmath:
physicsphysics:
The following concerns a question in a physics degree exam at the University of Copenhagen: Describe how to determine the height of a skyscraper with a barometer.
One student replied: You tie a long piece of string to the neck of the barometer, then lower the barometer from the roof of the skyscraper to the ground. The length of the string plus the length of...
