Minh’s Notes

Human-readable chicken scratch

Minh Nguyễn
December 13th, 2004
Quiz Team
#515

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Already cramming

It appears the Quiz Team is suffering from a bit of miscommunication. We haven’t participated in a Quiz Team match since the mixup with Moeller nearly a month ago. The combination of delays, power shortages (with the accompanying rations), and cancellations have rendered us a little rusty.

Which is why Mr. Hussong is for once thinking of holding a study session with us. Those in the know definitely know that this is a break from standard procedure.

For the past century (or for however long Quiz Team has been competing), preparing for the matches has consisted solely of lightening round free-for-all practices.

Now there’s actually talk about studying the art packets. Don’t get me wrong: we’ve always received our fair share of study material, but we never actually got together to review it.

But I guess it’s long overdue: one month ago Tuesday the Varsity team was defeated by Moeller, a sad event that I could have singlehandedly salvaged – or something like that.

And tomorrow, we compete against two schools: Fenwick and Elder. We aren’t particularly worried about the former, but we were once nearly beaten by the latter – it wasn’t fair I tell you! :^)

Well, we had a scrimage today (another new sight this year). Work is not force times distance. It’s force times displacement.

W=Fs

(Sorry, you can only see the above correctly if you use Mozilla or Firefox, or if you have a special plugin installed. It’s MathML.)

It makes a big difference when you’re talking about circular motion – just ask my physics teacher; he’ll chide you for that, just watch.

Anyhow, the question asked us to recite the formula for mechanical work. I stated quite confidently, “work equals force times displacement,” at which Mr. Hussong, not being well-versed in mechanics and kinematics, replied “No.”

The answer book said “distance” for some reason. Oh well, no one’s perfect. Gotta study…


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  1. As I warned yesterday, the St. X Quiz Team competed on two levels, against two schools this afternoon. We had to make up our matches against Elder, scheduled a few weeks ago. Yes, yesterday I said it was going to...

  2. As I warned yesterday, the St. X Quiz Team competed on two levels, against two schools this afternoon. We had to make up our matches against Elder, scheduled a few weeks ago. Yes, yesterday I said it was going to...