Handy conversion factors

Everybody (except Chuck Norris) gets worried about converting between Fahrenheit and Kelvin, meters and inches, so on and so forth. It can be a pain in the you-know-what.

Therefore, I decided to fix up a list of really handy, very scientific conversion factors for you:

Handy Conversions

Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter: Eskimo Pi

2000 pounds of Chinese soup: Won ton

1 millionth of a mouthwash: 1 microscope

Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement:
1 bananosecond

Weight an evangelist carries with God: 1 billigram

Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour:
Knot-furlong

365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling:
1 lite year

16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone: 1 Rod Serling

Half of a large intestine: 1 semicolon

1000 aches: 1 kilohurtz

Basic unit of laryngitis: 1 hoarsepower

Shortest distance between two jokes: A straight line
(think about it for a moment)

453.6 graham crackers: 1 pound cake

1 million microphones: 1 megaphone

1 million bicycles: 2 megacycles

2000 mockingbirds: two kilomockingbirds (work on it...)

10 cards: 1 decacards

1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig Newton

1000 cubic centimeters of wet socks: 1 literhosen

1 millionth of a fish: 1 microfiche

1 trillion pins: 1 terrapin

10 rations: 1 decoration

100 rations: 1 C-ration

2 monograms: 1 diagram

8 nickels: 2 paradigms

3 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University
Hospital: 1 I.V. League

Molto homework on the way

There will be three big nice homework assignments tonight:

5. HW 5, some more about circular trajectories and a mini-review
6. HW 6, parabolic arcs and gravitation
7. HW 7, parabolic arc brain burners

Excellent.

Ahhhhhhh

What a sweet looking set of constituent forces. I think they might even be good enough for homework. Nice.

Hair on end

Tomorrow and Thursday, we will demonstrate the concept of voltage with the van de Graaff generator, so famous for making your hair stand on end. If you want to try it out, make sure to wash your hair but no styling gel or other goop. My hair is too curly (a sign of geniusness), but even for straight hair, you never know whose hair will do the best.

This photo of Ashlea from a few semesters ago, is one of my favorites.

Space shuttle, what a machine!

What a great machine. Leaves orbit at 8:29 AM while over Indonesia, south Pacific, then lands safely 75 minutes later at Kennedy.



Nice.