Re: Baka - Selected Quotes Part II

[Michael Press]

In article <[email protected]>,
R Brickston <rb20170REMOVE.yahoo.com@> wrote:

> Chemistry was one of my minors in college, after electronics, math,
> and physics.

1. A sugar cube will balance on a soccer ball, but a
sugar cube will not balance on a dried pea. What is the
radius of the sphere (in terms of the edge length of
the sugar cube) where the sugar cube is in neutral
equilibrium?

2. A gram of water is super-cooled to -40 C. It
spontaneously undergoes a phase change to a mixture of
water-ice. What is the change in entropy?

--
Michael Press

 

[jim beam]

Michael Press wrote:
<snip>
> 2. A gram of water is super-cooled to -40 C. It
> spontaneously undergoes a phase change to a mixture of
> water-ice. What is the change in entropy?

what's the proportion of water-ice in this mixture?

 

[R Brickston]

On Wed, 23 May 2007 22:28:29 -0700, jim beam
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Michael Press wrote:
><snip>
>> 2. A gram of water is super-cooled to -40 C. It
>> spontaneously undergoes a phase change to a mixture of
>> water-ice. What is the change in entropy?
>
>what's the proportion of water-ice in this mixture?

Please, let Dr. Baka the Physics major answer it.

 

[jim beam]

R Brickston wrote:
> On Wed, 23 May 2007 22:28:29 -0700, jim beam
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Michael Press wrote:
>> <snip>
>>> 2. A gram of water is super-cooled to -40 C. It
>>> spontaneously undergoes a phase change to a mixture of
>>> water-ice. What is the change in entropy?
>> what's the proportion of water-ice in this mixture?
>
> Please, let Dr. Baka the Physics major answer it.

but the question is incomplete, dumb-ass.

 

[still me]

On Thu, 24 May 2007 05:12:30 GMT, Michael Press <[email protected]>
wrote:

>In article <[email protected]>,
> R Brickston <rb20170REMOVE.yahoo.com@> wrote:
>
>> Chemistry was one of my minors in college, after electronics, math,
>> and physics.

My major was sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll. Well, Chemistry too, but
only to the extent that it related to the second item in the previous
list.

 

[R Brickston]

On Thu, 24 May 2007 06:06:44 -0700, jim beam
<[email protected]> wrote:

>R Brickston wrote:
>> On Wed, 23 May 2007 22:28:29 -0700, jim beam
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Michael Press wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>>> 2. A gram of water is super-cooled to -40 C. It
>>>> spontaneously undergoes a phase change to a mixture of
>>>> water-ice. What is the change in entropy?
>>> what's the proportion of water-ice in this mixture?
>>
>> Please, let Dr. Baka the Physics major answer it.
>
>but the question is incomplete, dumb-ass.

If so, then Baka should be the one to figure out that it's not. In
fact, I wonder if the OP asked the question in this way for that
specific reason.

 

[Bill]

R Brickston wrote:
> On Thu, 24 May 2007 06:06:44 -0700, jim beam
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> R Brickston wrote:
>>> On Wed, 23 May 2007 22:28:29 -0700, jim beam
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Michael Press wrote:
>>>> <snip>
>>>>> 2. A gram of water is super-cooled to -40 C. It
>>>>> spontaneously undergoes a phase change to a mixture of
>>>>> water-ice. What is the change in entropy?
>>>> what's the proportion of water-ice in this mixture?
>>> Please, let Dr. Baka the Physics major answer it.
>> but the question is incomplete, dumb-ass.
>
> If so, then Baka should be the one to figure out that it's not. In
> fact, I wonder if the OP asked the question in this way for that
> specific reason.

I was having fun watching you guys.
Here's one answer.
Deflate the Soccer ball and anything will balance on it.
The pea aside from being too small is also very hard surfaced and will
roll very easily.
Even if you could balance the Sugar, depending on the humidity it
absorbed on one side or the other, the balance would change and topple
the works. Or a light breath.
That was my comic answer.
As you were.
Bill Baka

 

[Bill]

still me wrote:
> On Thu, 24 May 2007 05:12:30 GMT, Michael Press <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> In article <[email protected]>,
>> R Brickston <rb20170REMOVE.yahoo.com@> wrote:
>>
>>> Chemistry was one of my minors in college, after electronics, math,
>>> and physics.
>
> My major was sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll.
I thought that was the real major for all of us in the '60s-'70s.
Well, Chemistry too, but
> only to the extent that it related to the second item in the previous
> list.
Enough to pass the tests with high enough marks to impress the girls.
I took home economics in 8th grade.
I took bookkeeping in 9th grade.
I took typing as a Senior.
Why?
That's where the girls were.
Sheesh.
Bill Baka

>
>

 

[Michael Press]

In article <[email protected]>,
jim beam <[email protected]> wrote:

> Michael Press wrote:
> <snip>
> > 2. A gram of water is super-cooled to -40 C. It
> > spontaneously undergoes a phase change to a mixture of
> > water-ice. What is the change in entropy?
>
> what's the proportion of water-ice in this mixture?

Part of the exercise.

--
Michael Press

 

[Michael Press]

In article <[email protected]>,
jim beam <[email protected]> wrote:

> R Brickston wrote:
> > On Wed, 23 May 2007 22:28:29 -0700, jim beam
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Michael Press wrote:
> >> <snip>
> >>> 2. A gram of water is super-cooled to -40 C. It
> >>> spontaneously undergoes a phase change to a mixture of
> >>> water-ice. What is the change in entropy?
> >> what's the proportion of water-ice in this mixture?
> >
> > Please, let Dr. Baka the Physics major answer it.
>
> but the question is incomplete, dumb-ass.

No, it is not.
Sure, you have to look up the properties of water.
Not too difficult, even if it is not in a book
on your shelf.

--
Michael Press

 

[R Brickston]

On Thu, 24 May 2007 22:57:16 GMT, Bill <[email protected]> wrote:

>still me wrote:
>> On Thu, 24 May 2007 05:12:30 GMT, Michael Press <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> In article <[email protected]>,
>>> R Brickston <rb20170REMOVE.yahoo.com@> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Chemistry was one of my minors in college, after electronics, math,
>>>> and physics.
>>
>> My major was sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll.
>I thought that was the real major for all of us in the '60s-'70s.
>Well, Chemistry too, but
>> only to the extent that it related to the second item in the previous
>> list.
>Enough to pass the tests with high enough marks to impress the girls.
>I took home economics in 8th grade.
>I took bookkeeping in 9th grade.
>I took typing as a Senior.
>Why?
>That's where the girls were.
>Sheesh.
>Bill Baka
>
>>
>>

Billy's two favorite words "I" and "me."

 

[Michael Press]

In article <[email protected]>,
R Brickston <rb20170REMOVE.yahoo.com@> wrote:

> On Thu, 24 May 2007 06:06:44 -0700, jim beam
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >R Brickston wrote:
> >> On Wed, 23 May 2007 22:28:29 -0700, jim beam
> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Michael Press wrote:
> >>> <snip>
> >>>> 2. A gram of water is super-cooled to -40 C. It
> >>>> spontaneously undergoes a phase change to a mixture of
> >>>> water-ice. What is the change in entropy?
> >>> what's the proportion of water-ice in this mixture?
> >>
> >> Please, let Dr. Baka the Physics major answer it.
> >
> >but the question is incomplete, dumb-ass.
>
> If so, then Baka should be the one to figure out that it's not. In
> fact, I wonder if the OP asked the question in this way for that
> specific reason.

Serious students of secondary school chemistry remember
the phrase `latent heat of fusion.'

--
Michael Press

 

[Bill]

R Brickston wrote:
> On Thu, 24 May 2007 22:57:16 GMT, Bill <[email protected]> wrote:
>> That's where the girls were.
>> Sheesh.
>> Bill Baka
>>
>>>
>
> Billy's two favorite words "I" and "me."

Dumbass, Girls first. Maybe Boys for you.
Bye.

 

[Michael Press]

In article <[email protected]>,
Bill <[email protected]> wrote:

> R Brickston wrote:
> > On Thu, 24 May 2007 06:06:44 -0700, jim beam
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> R Brickston wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 23 May 2007 22:28:29 -0700, jim beam
> >>> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Michael Press wrote:
> >>>> <snip>
> >>>>> 2. A gram of water is super-cooled to -40 C. It
> >>>>> spontaneously undergoes a phase change to a mixture of
> >>>>> water-ice. What is the change in entropy?
> >>>> what's the proportion of water-ice in this mixture?
> >>> Please, let Dr. Baka the Physics major answer it.
> >> but the question is incomplete, dumb-ass.
> >
> > If so, then Baka should be the one to figure out that it's not. In
> > fact, I wonder if the OP asked the question in this way for that
> > specific reason.
>
> I was having fun watching you guys.
> Here's one answer.
> Deflate the Soccer ball and anything will balance on it.
> The pea aside from being too small is also very hard surfaced and will
> roll very easily.
> Even if you could balance the Sugar, depending on the humidity it
> absorbed on one side or the other, the balance would change and topple
> the works. Or a light breath.
> That was my comic answer.

You cannot answer seriously. Say that you
do not know how to approach these questions.
I double-dog dare you.

Bonus question, mathematics section.

What is the order of the group of units modulo 315,
that is |Z/315Z|?
Extra credit for providing generators of the group.

--
Michael Press

 

[Bill]

Michael Press wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> R Brickston <rb20170REMOVE.yahoo.com@> wrote:
>> If so, then Baka should be the one to figure out that it's not. In
>> fact, I wonder if the OP asked the question in this way for that
>> specific reason.
>
> Serious students of secondary school chemistry remember
> the phrase `latent heat of fusion.'
>
OK,
The amount of heat required to change a standard weight from solid, to
liquid, to vapor, with water being among the highest naturally occurring
compound.
Also if it's flash frozen to -40C/F crossover point, it should all be
solid, unless a certain amount remains super-cooled but not frozen.
There would also be a noticeable lack of crystalline spurs, since sperm
can be frozen and revived but not a whole body since the heat doesn't
'flash' out.
Wrong group, and the math could get a bit much, some of which I hated 40
years ago.
Bill Baka

 

[Bill]

Michael Press wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> Bill <[email protected]> wrote:
>> That was my comic answer.
>
> You cannot answer seriously. Say that you
> do not know how to approach these questions.
> I double-dog dare you.
See the 4:?? P.M. Answer before this one.

>
> Bonus question, mathematics section.
>
> What is the order of the group of units modulo 315,
> that is |Z/315Z|?
> Extra credit for providing generators of the group.

An obvious math nut. I spent nearly 40 years doing electronics and never
had to use much beyond knowing PI (3.141592654..........forever).
Bill Baka
>

 

[R Brickston]

On Thu, 24 May 2007 16:21:16 -0700, Bill <[email protected]> wrote:

>R Brickston wrote:
>> On Thu, 24 May 2007 22:57:16 GMT, Bill <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> That's where the girls were.
>>> Sheesh.
>>> Bill Baka
>>>
>>>>
>>
>> Billy's two favorite words "I" and "me."
>
>Dumbass, Girls first. Maybe Boys for you.
>Bye.

Wooosh

 

[R Brickston]

On Thu, 24 May 2007 16:38:20 -0700, Bill <[email protected]> wrote:

>Michael Press wrote:
>> In article <[email protected]>,
>> Bill <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> That was my comic answer.
>>
>> You cannot answer seriously. Say that you
>> do not know how to approach these questions.
>> I double-dog dare you.
>See the 4:?? P.M. Answer before this one.
>
>>
>> Bonus question, mathematics section.
>>
>> What is the order of the group of units modulo 315,
>> that is |Z/315Z|?
>> Extra credit for providing generators of the group.
>
>An obvious math nut. I spent nearly 40 years doing electronics and never
>had to use much beyond knowing PI (3.141592654..........forever).
>Bill Baka
>>

And an even more obvious evasion, Docktor Baka.

 

[Bill]

R Brickston wrote:
> And an even more obvious evasion, Docktor Baka.

Just ignoring the noise.

 

[R Brickston]

On Thu, 24 May 2007 21:44:05 -0700, Bill <[email protected]> wrote:

>R Brickston wrote:
>> And an even more obvious evasion, Docktor Baka.
>
>Just ignoring the noise.

No you're not, you can't figure it out, "Docktor."