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Remarkable
, 01-09-2009 at 06:59 PM (3355 Views)
I am sitting here in front of my computer,dying to sleep...I am also having a very interesting chat converstion with a friend of mine about philosophy and "Faust".I feel like one of those famous editors now,fixing his paper and redirecting his thoughts...

I had this physics exam today.It was quite easy,but I've been studying physics thoroughly this year,so it's probably normal.And then,at literature's class,I made my teacher laugh and nobody has done that this far...I'm being pretty funny lately...

With all these I mean that I am starting to achieve part of what I want to achieve.I have always wanted to be an intellectually active person...And I believe I am starting to be.I read a lot.I try to write whenever I have time and inspiration.I debate the whole time.I try to make my line of thought evolve.I try to raise my interest on various subjects.I love history and philosophy,but on the same time I am fascinated by physics and Einstein;I live for literature but I feel amazed by many mathematical theories.But yet?...Is it real?Is what I am trying to do just a play?Is it just trying to be good and brave?Is it a list of things to do this year?I like not to think so.But I might be easily mistaken.I know someone that is very smart and very cultivated.But you can tell he is following a list all the time.In the end,what's wrong with that?Maybe it has to be a list there...

I don't know.For some time now I have been in a constant state of searching.Of searching for what?Maybe the supreme truth...I know,it lasts a lifetime...Several lifetimes...Million lifetimes?Who am I to find this supreme truth if all the greatest haven't?Anyhow,what's weirdest is that everyday more I understand tha the small and ordinary things of life are the ones that help the seeker advance.Or are these the delusions of a sixteen year old?...
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  1. Virgil's Avatar
    Literature and physics!!! Remarkable, you may be one of the few people who can bridge right brain and left brain. I'm one of those people.

    So it's been decades since I've been in a physics class. What are you learning? Can you write respond with one or two of your exam questions. I'd love to see if I can still answer the questions.
  2. Remarkable's Avatar
    Haha,Virgil,good work!I don't think I can really bridge them both...I mean,I'm not really sure...I often have difficulties in physics but I never have difficulties in literature...I might be just very much in love with physics...I probably should take a proper test!You can test me!I'd really love it to able to bridge both the left and the right brain.

    Ok,here we go with a very easy physics problem.

    This exam was about waves.So...

    Two high speakers(megaphones)are in a distance of 2.5 meters from each other.A person is standing 3 meters away from the first one and 3.5 meters away from the second one.What is the frequence of the wave if we have destructive interference at the point where the person is standing?

    If you don't understand it,it's probably because I'm translating it directly from Albanian,so just tell me.
    Updated 01-10-2009 at 08:40 AM by Remarkable
  3. applepie's Avatar
    There is nothing wrong with constantly searching for knowledge:D If so, then well... I'd be having issues about now. I love to learn about anything. Nothing is off topic. I read books on everything from biological sciences, new computer advances, marketing theory, the just standard $7.99 fiction paper back, to many of the classics that I love. Enjoy it.
  4. Virgil's Avatar
    Well, physics is way harder than literature. Hope that doesn't piss people off here, but it is. As long as you can defend an answer in literature, and you know how to express your thoughts, it's relatively correct. In physics there is a right and wrong answer. Oh I definitely understand the question. Unfortunately I'm not sure I can answer it. I was hoping you would have a mechanics or statics question. I'm going to guess and say the answer is a half meter frequency.

    Edit: I misinterpreted the question. It suddenly dawned on me while I was trying to clean up the left over magazines. If the destructive interference, meaning the max and min wave peaks are in alighnment, then they are a half meter out of phase, and so the wave frequency is one meter. Final answer.
    Updated 01-10-2009 at 12:50 PM by Virgil
  5. Remarkable's Avatar
    Physics is way harder than literature for some,but I have friends who can't even write a school essay but are so good in physics that they can reproduce the lesoon just by reading it.

    Actually,your answer is incorrect...Sorry!You did find correctly the length of the wave,not it's frequency.Anyhow,it's easy form now on.The basic formula is:frequency=speed/wave length.

    Speed is 343m/s(as is is sound speed on air),so the final result is frequency=343Hz.

    I told you it was easy...
  6. Virgil's Avatar
    Oh you're right. I read it as asking for the wave length. I did the hard part and got the easy part wrong. See one can make lots of errors in physics. Of course I can quibble that the speed of sound is dependant on the air density, which can change with elevation. You didn't say the speakers were at sea level.
    Updated 01-10-2009 at 06:10 PM by Virgil
  7. Remarkable's Avatar
    Well,we don't go into such detailed physics as air density and high levels,so that's why it's basic.Anyhow,this was the easiest question of the test.We had one with quake waves,different rocks,different densities,different angles...We also had one with strings and time,which was pretty confusing because you had to create a way all by yourself to find the time needed for the wave to do a certain movement...
  8. kiz_paws's Avatar
    Oh, another person who can appreciate Einstein? Yayness!

    Interesting thoughts, Remarkable.