Awesome teachersTeachers have been getting a right kicking recently and it's not fair. So, let's hear it for the teachers who've inspired you, made you laugh, or helped you to make massive explosions in the chemistry lab. (Thanks to Godwin's Lawyer for the suggestion)
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 17 Mar 2011, 11:18)
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Chemistry and Physics teachers: not sure how I'm still aliveWe were playing with light sensors plugged into ZX Spectrums in secondary school physics, and we noticed a subtle waveform in the light output from a bulb. My lab partner thought it was due to the 50Hz mains, whereas I thought that it was flicker from the monitor. We asked the physics teacher about it, and he said:
"Well, you could feed the bulb with 240V DC..."
He helped us connect 20 bench power supplies in series. Turned out it was the bulb.
I also had a pyromaniac chemistry teacher. One lesson we were making a bunch of compounds (really boring stuff, like road paint), and the chemistry guru in my team (he later went on to work as a chemist) suggested that gunpowder was also relevant to what we were studying. They set it off at the end of the lesson... it beat the crap out of the road paint.
(, Sun 20 Mar 2011, 12:47, Reply)
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