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On October 20 2015 01:15 Gahlo wrote:
Super duper late, but anybody want a LotV beta code?

On October 20 2015 01:32 ticklishmusic wrote:
Inch is 2.5 cm, kilo is 2.2 lbs (approx)

I had a physics professor who was kind of a dick and give random measurements in the English system so you'd have to convert. Some times students would miss it and he was the kind of professor who would count everything everything in a multipart problem wrong if you messed up in part b.

On October 20 2015 01:55 jcarlsoniv wrote:


To be fair, unit conversion is incredibly important in Physics (and all science) - it's necessary to teach people to pay attention to it.

On October 20 2015 02:12 Redox wrote:

These units should not appaer in any scientific environment in the first place.

On October 19 2015 23:44 Ketara wrote:
I'm stuck in a city where the air is toxic and you can't go outside or see anything so I'm sitting in a room with nothing but a fan, my phone, and internet that's good enough for TL but not good enough for video so I've posted 100 times today.

Tell us about your weekend Requizen!

On October 20 2015 01:55 jcarlsoniv wrote:


To be fair, unit conversion is incredibly important in Physics (and all science) - it's necessary to teach people to pay attention to it.

On October 20 2015 02:27 Numy wrote:


Units are incredibly important yes but unit conversions shouldn't ever been needed to be done purely memory. Having a table of conversions along with the questions would be fine. If you constantly working with units you need to convert eventually you'll just naturally remember them to save time. Testing someones memory of unit conversions doesn't test anything to do with the actual problem though.

This prof just sounds like an asshole.

On October 20 2015 02:37 Dandel Ion wrote:
it's actually a test if you're paying attention to what units you are using and given

its not a memorization test
and i think it's fine to do it, conversion errors due to not actually converting are too common and pretty annoying

On October 20 2015 02:39 Numy wrote:


The memorization test I'm talking about is the act of actually converting not paying attention to units. Hence why I said it was fine if there's an accompanied conversion table or if you can bring your own. We actually had to do conversion tests in first year with a required score of 85% to pass it or you'd redo the whole year. Had sheets with those though.

On October 20 2015 02:45 ticklishmusic wrote:


It was a little of both. As an example, he'd ask for torque for something on Venus, and you'd have to calculate the gravitational constant from a mix of numbers in metric/English before even properly starting the problem. Few of his problems were particularly challenging, just a lot of unnecessary hoops to jump through. It felt like he was just playing gotcha.

In orgo we had to memorize things like equilibrium constants and stuff for Lewis acids and bases (or something like that, it's been a few years), but that was okay to me since it wasn't as much of a hoops and roadblock thing.

The worst I've heard is an international finance professor who forced his students to memorize the previous day's foreign exchange rates for exams (he'd require pounds, Euros, US dollars, rupees, yen, yuan, rubles and a couple others).

On October 19 2015 23:34 Requizen wrote:
What a thoroughly exciting weekend. How are you all doing?

On October 20 2015 01:26 Scip wrote:

It's because we know that if I tell you that I am 178 cm and weigh 65 kg you're just going to ask me what that means instead of googling it like normal.

On October 20 2015 04:25 Ketara wrote:
I wouldn't be able to breathe that either!