Re: WAY off topic!

"W. Baker" <wbaker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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MI <quilchenapark@xxxxxxx> wrote:



: On 10/3/11 7:49 AM, in article 9eu0c8FebkU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Chris
: Malcolm" <cam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

: > outsider <outsider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
: >> On 10/2/2011 11:27 PM, MI wrote:
: >>>
: >>> On 10/2/11 7:06 PM, in article 9esjkhFm7dU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"outsider"
: >>> <outsider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
: >
: >>>> Wikipedia discussion of physics states: "More broadly, it is the
: >>>> general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how
: >>>> the universe behaves."
: >>>>
: >>>> This discussion is about technology.
: >>>
: >>> Wickipedia may say that, but when I went to school we didn't just
learn
: >>> general analysis we learned practical physics. Grade 8 students
learn about
: >>> volts, watts, amps and formulas to calculate them.
: >
: >> I can't and won't question what you learned or when. If they called
: >> that "physics" then it was technology foisted off as science. That
: >> delineation is clear to some of us, not so clear to everyone.
: >
: > You don't consider Ohm's Law to have been a scientific discovery?

: I do. Along with Boyle's and Pascal's. Law of Inverse Ratio in Light.
High
: School Physics. All kinds of things that apparently aren't taught in US
: schools.
: --
: Martha Canada

Never took Physics, but remember the terms, but would need a push to
reember the laws. I do not use them and it has been almost 60 years since
High School.

Wendy

It was a revelation to me when I did my electronics course that maths was
after all necessary in some fields. As I came across more and more maths, I
regretted having dropped out of it in high school. Unfortunately I didn't
have the patience or willpower to catch up on it. I just learnt the formulas
(formulae) as I needed them.

Henry.


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