David Rees pencil king

I had to look that up, unreal.

ya, has a book, commercial, everything this guys a maniac

There are those of us prefer pencil and calculator to some damned phone app.

I used a slide rule when I was in college. Confused the heck out of my meteorology prof.

Heh, should've figured they'd have more than one version of the test. I was wondering about that since Merry's test is later that day. Does this also mean that each student in this class has a different version too?

Gotta buckle down, Chucky-boy, save all that energy for afterwards.

Note quite. It's more like, 5 versions of the same test spread among 200 students. So the odds are 1 in 5 that the person next to you has the same test.

the wonders of love :=)

Why do I feel like Chuck is about to come up short of the metaphorical runway?

Because I'm doing a good job of setting things up.

Haha! And this is why you don't fuck until after a test. At least when your young and easily distracted. ;)

Of course then you'll be consumed with the idea of fucking after the test.

Only if you know it's gonna happen. =P

GOD, I hated Physics!

Will you just have sex with her already, Chuck?!

Being in love is never good for your marks..especially not when the love is so fresh...

This doesn't bode well...

Poor Chucky! I've been there before where all I can think of is someone else all day... but luckily it wasn't during a huge test.

Hope he can do well... and again, a great page! ^_^

(Underwear Merry is mmmmm :3 )

We're not allowed smart devices in our tests.
:/
Though it's physics :S, it's an arse no matter how you do it.

Most I was ever allowed on tests was a graphing calculator. Except for one prof who allowed PDAs, but he was weird that way. Still had to fill out bubbles on a scantron with #2 pencil though.

The first graphics calculators came out right at the end of high school for me, then got significantly better when I was in college. Again, that was almost 20 years ago so I was wondering if things had changed.

The Perfect Sabotage lol

"Right Arm! But don't ferget your test."

What's with the right arm? What am I missing here?

Oh, and the answer to that first test question is Vv = 3.96 m/s and Vt = 3.98 m/s Chucky. Now don't let fantasies of Merry distract you further. I'm not going to give any more freebies. ;)

Instead of 'Right On!', Adam likes to say 'Right Arm!'. It's a play on words my brother used to do that I always got a kick out of. Ha ha, I figured somebody would solve the problem.

Well, given that I am a licensed pilot AND a mechanical engineer, how could I NOT solve that simple problem. :D Heck, I took college-level physics while in high school and so knew of the kinematic equations all the way back then.

Calculators....Bahh!

Back in MY day...(And yes, I am that old) the only calculators we had were adding machines with crank levers.

In High school, I took a class on using a slide rule. I still have it 43 years later.

Working in the Aerospace industry in the '70s we got to play with things like this.

Speaking of doing things the hard way. Two column full justification on a manual typewriter.

Bunners

Hey Bunners, I have to say I love the price on the computer. I think that translates to about $25,000 now. Bet you didn't think one day you'd have 16 gig of data storage in something the size of your fingernail that costs $12 from a drug store. It's right next to the plutonium and spare jet-pack parts.

No kidding dear, my first PC in 1989 cost a fortune.

2 Meg of mostly useless RAM, and a 40 meg HD which I thought I'd NEVER fill up.

8 MHz clock speed in the "Turbo" mode. And the extra math co-processor chip.

I also remember it taking all night to download a program that was 10 meg in size.

The biggest shock to me at the time (a few years later) was getting a caching IDE controller card and finding it had a faster 286 processor and more memory that my first PC had.

Ah, those were the days.

I'm glad they're over.

Bunners

I remember my mom getting a calculator in the late 70s. It had the standard calculator keypad but with red light-up digital numbers. I think liquid crystal showed up about the time I started elementary school.

I have had several calculators over the years. The first (I think) was a 5 function one from Radio Shack. % was a function.
Then I built a Heathkit scientific calculator. My first "real" calculator was an early HP with the tiny red display.

Then I finally got the HP-11C, both used that Reverse Polish Notation.

I still have that. And the two TI handhelds that I use the most at work.


Bunners

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Polish_notation

most of my exams wouldn't let you use more than a pencil and calculator.

This test is severely lacking in Scantrons... Those evil, evil Scantrons. >.>

Memories I have made efforts to repress.

I fear I may still have some, shoved far and deep in the back of my closet somewhere... <.<
We do not venture into the closet anymore... mostly because there's five feet of junk in there. >.>

Now that I think of it, I vaguely remember they used to make us buy our own Scantrons.
*Shudders*

I see to remember something like that too.