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Sep. 3rd, 2003
ph33r t3h cute ones
Sep. 3rd, 2003 06:07 pmGot the cool MT piccy, the one with Piro's computer game alterego and the big gun. That's the good news. Piccy is here http://www.fredart.com/fredart/artpage.php3?src=&ft=co&fn=32
Bad news? Astronomy freakin' sucks. Okay, the whole problem with having to get from MSEB to an even further building than DKH in 10 minutes wasn't all that bad. Okay, it ticked me off, but hey, that's scheduling and I need both those classes to keep status as full time student. You know. Just LIVE WITH IT. (yeah, I use that phrase as much with myself as I do others)
But the lectures, Mohr just plays with Power Point the whole time. Add to this the fact that he puts all the lectures on the web, allowing him to speed by in his lectures to the point where my notes look like jumbles of words and symbols. The whole right handed auditorium seating isn't his fault, just another one of those annoying things.
The problem though is nothing is given/explained during said lectures. Add to this the fact that we have homework every week. Math is involved, and yet are we ever given formulas? No. We're acutally not given any numbers. He's trying to be cute and it makes the homework nigh frustrating.
Example Question
Suppose you had the national debt (~$10trillion) in one dollar bills. Now if you laid them end to end, building a tower from the surface of the Earth, (a) would you have enough of them to string a path to the Sun and back? (b) Starting from the Earth to the Sun and then heading outward from the Sun, which planets could you reach before you ran out of dollar bills? (see appendix for table of planetary data)
Yes, once I found measurements for a dollar bill, I can take care of that problem easily. But it's just a pile of extra work to plow through. And that's a pretty typical question. Me-chan, I need you . . . *reaches out*
Oh, and if anyone wants to laugh at me and my stupidty:
http://cosmology.astro.uiuc.edu/~jmohr/Astr121/Handouts/HW1.htm
Edit: Have conquered worksheet. Except for the second one. Booya. Yeah, they're all wrong, but who cares?
Over and out.
Bad news? Astronomy freakin' sucks. Okay, the whole problem with having to get from MSEB to an even further building than DKH in 10 minutes wasn't all that bad. Okay, it ticked me off, but hey, that's scheduling and I need both those classes to keep status as full time student. You know. Just LIVE WITH IT. (yeah, I use that phrase as much with myself as I do others)
But the lectures, Mohr just plays with Power Point the whole time. Add to this the fact that he puts all the lectures on the web, allowing him to speed by in his lectures to the point where my notes look like jumbles of words and symbols. The whole right handed auditorium seating isn't his fault, just another one of those annoying things.
The problem though is nothing is given/explained during said lectures. Add to this the fact that we have homework every week. Math is involved, and yet are we ever given formulas? No. We're acutally not given any numbers. He's trying to be cute and it makes the homework nigh frustrating.
Example Question
Suppose you had the national debt (~$10trillion) in one dollar bills. Now if you laid them end to end, building a tower from the surface of the Earth, (a) would you have enough of them to string a path to the Sun and back? (b) Starting from the Earth to the Sun and then heading outward from the Sun, which planets could you reach before you ran out of dollar bills? (see appendix for table of planetary data)
Yes, once I found measurements for a dollar bill, I can take care of that problem easily. But it's just a pile of extra work to plow through. And that's a pretty typical question. Me-chan, I need you . . . *reaches out*
Oh, and if anyone wants to laugh at me and my stupidty:
http://cosmology.astro.uiuc.edu/~jmohr/Astr121/Handouts/HW1.htm
Edit: Have conquered worksheet. Except for the second one. Booya. Yeah, they're all wrong, but who cares?
Over and out.