For my A-level geographyfieldwork I couldn't be bothered to wade about in rivers measuring pebbles. So my friend and I wrote a program to simulate meanders and do all sorts of clever things, like adding a degree of varying randomness to make the results look real.
Needless to say, writing said program took a hell of a lot longer and took a lot more brain power than just measuring stones. Anyway, it worked and I got an A. Yay!
(Needless to say, writing said program took a hell of a lot longer and took a lot more brain power than just measuring stones. Anyway, it worked and I got an A. Yay!
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Tue 25 Nov 2003, 15:12,
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I remembera mate of mine and myself doing that for a major physical chemistry practical at A-Level. Something to do with rates of reactions, orders of reaction, all that bollocks.
We made this marvelous spreadsheet - whack in starting concentrations, rate of reaction and all that, and wham, you'd have a lovely data set complete with errors. Nice.
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Wed 26 Nov 2003, 1:25,
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We made this marvelous spreadsheet - whack in starting concentrations, rate of reaction and all that, and wham, you'd have a lovely data set complete with errors. Nice.
At uni....I once had some coursework for a subsid module, that was prt of me Science Foundation Year (equiv. of A levels). I was supposed to spend most of the semester drawing pictures of the moon, then got to the last day and realised i'd done fook all. some hefty internet research later i had all the data i needed, but had ended up putting more effort into faking the results than i would have done into actually just taking them in the first place.
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Tue 2 Dec 2003, 0:59,
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