School

Thanks to Matt’s spiffy spreadsheet, I calculate that I only need a 15 to pass Physics II. Granted, I hope to do a lot better than that; but the fact that I know what I need to pass the class is relieving.

Done with class.

Done with CAPA…forever (God willing).

Done with Homework.

4 finals and then I’m done with the semester!

We filmed this the week before Thanksgiving and the week after. It’s a Lightning Tour designed to show what the normal Colorado School of Mines tour doesn’t. This is the initial short cut:

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I’ll post the final cut and the long cut when they’re ready. Feel free to leave comments, I’ll pass them on to the appropriate people.

Today was a great day in Physics. We had a pretty cool demo of total internal refraction. And then the words which we’ve been waiting for all semester, “And that’s the end of new material.”

Everybody applauded.

Now I just have to relearn everything for the exam.

Update: Fixed title

Wikipedia has a list of trig identities.

I’m not quite sure what’s worse, the fact that Wikipedia has them or the fact that I need to use them.

Calc III exam at 7:30 6:30.

Here are the three I’ve been using a lot:

• Sin²[x] = (1-Cos[2x])/2
• Cos²[x] = (1+Cos[2x])/2
• Sin²[x] + Cos²[x] = 1

Bah.

I sometimes forget how much I actually like writing. I’ll be typing along and this word will come to me. I’ll check to make sure it’s the right word, it always is though, and then I’ll use it.

Case in point:

Cessation: “With the cessation of the traditional, local school board…”