Throw out your physics books!

by **MoJo** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 11:23 am

Ive always wondered what its like to be a biochemist...can you enlighten me Chacal?

by **DocTrebor** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 12:14 pm

Originally posted by Chacal
It's been 20 years since my biochemistry degree, yet I still understand this stuff! Looks like I'm not senile yet...

Biochem? Hot damn! What do/did you do for a career with that? My gf is going for her biomedical engineer degree, not sure if thats related.

by **FigoJudas** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 1:01 pm

Originally posted by Chacal
Yes, but your teacher should say something about it at least when he gets to explaining phases.

The paper (M Plazanet et al. 2004 J. Chem. Phys 121 5031) has been accepted and published in a science journal, which is no small feat. It is now subject to peer review, which means that other scientists will try to reproduce the results using the exact same methodology. If the results are reproductible, the discovery is now science and will quickly get included in new editions of college textbooks. High school text books are another story.

I don´t think they will change nothing in basic physics books. The pupils don´t know nothing about fluid-dynamics or physic of materials. University area is another thing...Keep your physic basic books :p

There are alot of news as this, and don´t have an effect on books...I remember the last year an experiment to teletransport of particles successfully.

The most important is wtf we´ll do with it...a liquid autorepair of fissures (spacecrafts) when there are extreme temperatures, ...maybe their applications can be awesomes.

by **deathBOB** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 4:38 pm

Ya, we dont learn any material physics in my physics class, it was all mechanical and electrical stuff...

by **Chacal** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 4:53 pm

Actually it would be part of a basic chemistry class. I used to teach 8th grade and 10th grade students about the 3 phases of all chemical compounds: solid, liquid and gas. Water, for example, at sea-level pressure, is solid under 0 degrees C (we call it ice), liquid between 0 and 100, and gaseous over 100 (we call it vapor).

Students already are told about water's strange behavior, like the fact it actually melts at 4C, not 0C, and the fact ice is less dense than liquid water hence it floats. It actually provides a way to begin showing them how water molecules are made and how the charges are spread within it, and what a hydrogen bond is.

However, we used to tell them that all chemicals go from solid to liquid to vapor when heated. Now this isn't true anymore, and teachers will have to mention this exception, possibly tying it with the behavior of water I just mentioned.

by **Chacal** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 5:02 pm

Originally posted by =DocTrebor=
Biochem? Hot damn! What do/did you do for a career with that? My gf is going for her biomedical engineer degree, not sure if thats related.

I don't think it is.

Actually, I never worked in the field. I turned bad. I started to play with computers in College (mainframes actually), then I joined the Dark Side and made a career in IT.

I did teach chemistry though.

by **Sabres** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 5:11 pm

You teach chemistry? Man I suck at it...

by **Chacal** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 8:52 pm

That was, oh, about 15 years ago.

by **{CN}Doomfarer** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 8:56 pm

old man

by **Chacal** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 9:03 pm

Aren't you supposed to be in a tree somewhere, surrounded by the debris of your barn ?

by **Evan** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 9:46 pm

Originally posted by Chacal
Aren't you supposed to be in a tree somewhere, surrounded by the debris of your barn ?

That's so low..lol

by **Chacal** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 10:52 pm

Yeah, sheep shot.

by **Harry Canyon** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 2:41 pm

Originally posted by Chacal
Yeah, sheep shot.

Ohhhh!!

The humor has really 'gone with the wind' around here....

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