Anyone awake?

[Higgins617]

Stuck doing physics homework, and I'm religiously over pressing the unread posts button. I don't have anything important to say, so I'm posting this instead!

[Grant Lamontagne]

I'm up, but not for much longer.  Almost 11pm here and I have a long day ahead of me tomorrow.

Def

[detron]

Stuck doing physics homework, and I'm religiously over pressing the unread posts button. I don't have anything important to say, so I'm posting this instead!

YOU are doing PHYSICS homework,   well,  that explains all the gravity around here.   

[Higgins617]

Yeah, I lucked out. My Tuesdays don't start until 2pm, but Monday and Wednesday sort of even it out. What are you up to tomorrow, if you don't mind me asking

[Higgins617]

Stuck doing physics homework, and I'm religiously over pressing the unread posts button. I don't have anything important to say, so I'm posting this instead!

YOU are doing PHYSICS homework,   well,  that explains all the gravity around here.   

Well as you can see by my presence here, it's a feeble attempt . Just kidding, physics is actually pretty cool if you get a decent teacher. My favorite High School teacher called it the science of common sense, which is sort of true.

[detron]

Stuck doing physics homework, and I'm religiously over pressing the unread posts button. I don't have anything important to say, so I'm posting this instead!

YOU are doing PHYSICS homework,   well,  that explains all the gravity around here.   

Well as you can see by my presence here, it's a feeble attempt . Just kidding, physics is actually pretty cool if you get a decent teacher. My favorite High School teacher called it the science of common sense, which is sort of true.

I loved physics, and my Job in the Navy required Physics and Trigonometry.
Naval gunnery may be computer aimed normally, but as a Fire control technician, I had to be able to calculate a solution without the computer, JUST IN CASE!.  I loved it, and with long range naval gunnery, you have 2 sets of winds, normal, and high altitude, latitude affected solution, temperature of the powder magazine, barometric pressure, weight of projectile (depending on type, any where from 68 to 72 lbs)

[Higgins617]

That's awesome man! I didn't know you served, nor that you were a physics wizz . It's awesome to know that the things you learn in class actually are relevant in the real world, I think that might be the hardest part about college. We're just getting started, so just friction is factored in. Still, nice to see why the calculations you're doing make sense, rather than Calc where you pretty much take their word for it.

[jerseydevil]

I loved physics, and my Job in the Navy required Physics and Trigonometry.
Naval gunnery may be computer aimed normally, but as a Fire control technician, I had to be able to calculate a solution without the computer, JUST IN CASE!.  I loved it, and with long range naval gunnery, you have 2 sets of winds, normal, and high altitude, latitude affected solution, temperature of the powder magazine, barometric pressure, weight of projectile (depending on type, any where from 68 to 72 lbs)

Only 68-72lb shells?  Mere toys    The old mechanical fire-control computers you see in museum battleships are pretty damn cool though.  My field of study in college had more to do with what happened when those shells hit their target, and how the results of those hits influenced following events.  Good thing there was no math involved too.  Want a history of the Dreadnought race, and how it influenced the lead up to World War 1?  Maybe a blow-by-blow account of the Battle of Jutland?  I'm your man.    Need to do simple addition?  I'm counting on my fingers....... 

[detron]

I loved physics, and my Job in the Navy required Physics and Trigonometry.
Naval gunnery may be computer aimed normally, but as a Fire control technician, I had to be able to calculate a solution without the computer, JUST IN CASE!.  I loved it, and with long range naval gunnery, you have 2 sets of winds, normal, and high altitude, latitude affected solution, temperature of the powder magazine, barometric pressure, weight of projectile (depending on type, any where from 68 to 72 lbs)

Only 68-72lb shells?  Mere toys    The old mechanical fire-control computers you see in museum battleships are pretty damn cool though.  My field of study in college had more to do with what happened when those shells hit their target, and how the results of those hits influenced following events.  Good thing there was no math involved too.  Want a history of the Dreadnought race, and how it influenced the lead up to World War 1?  Maybe a blow-by-blow account of the Battle of Jutland?  I'm your man.    Need to do simple addition?  I'm counting on my fingers....... 

The 16 inch guns were a different caliber gun 

Could not resist

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[Higgins617]

I loved physics, and my Job in the Navy required Physics and Trigonometry.
Naval gunnery may be computer aimed normally, but as a Fire control technician, I had to be able to calculate a solution without the computer, JUST IN CASE!.  I loved it, and with long range naval gunnery, you have 2 sets of winds, normal, and high altitude, latitude affected solution, temperature of the powder magazine, barometric pressure, weight of projectile (depending on type, any where from 68 to 72 lbs)

Only 68-72lb shells?  Mere toys    The old mechanical fire-control computers you see in museum battleships are pretty damn cool though.  My field of study in college had more to do with what happened when those shells hit their target, and how the results of those hits influenced following events.  Good thing there was no math involved too.  Want a history of the Dreadnought race, and how it influenced the lead up to World War 1?  Maybe a blow-by-blow account of the Battle of Jutland?  I'm your man.    Need to do simple addition?  I'm counting on my fingers....... 

History is more my speed as well, it has always been my favorite subject. Last semester's class was cool, gave more of an analytic look at U.S History rather than just babbling off facts like high school had.

[ironraven]

I loved physics, and my Job in the Navy required Physics and Trigonometry.
Naval gunnery may be computer aimed normally, but as a Fire control technician, I had to be able to calculate a solution without the computer, JUST IN CASE!.  I loved it, and with long range naval gunnery, you have 2 sets of winds, normal, and high altitude, latitude affected solution, temperature of the powder magazine, barometric pressure, weight of projectile (depending on type, any where from 68 to 72 lbs)

Planning on killing them with math.

Shiny.

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