Re: Black Holes and tidal forces

[Tom Wayburn <twayburn@WT.NET>]

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From: "Bernard Cleyet" <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 11:34 AM
Subject: Re: Black Holes and tidal forces


> I know you're stuck -- demand adequate prerequisites for your classes
and
> lose so many students you're out of a job, or ....
>
> Can you convince the admin. that fewer are better?
>
> bc
>
> I could interject some politics here ......
>
> Tina Fanetti wrote:
>
> > Algebra?  You must be kidding.  The class I am teaching this in can
b=
> > arely add numbers.  =20
> > I am having trouble with my calc students to.  I just did the chain
r=
> > ule and they looked at me like I was crazy.
> >
> > Man, what are math departments doing????
> >
> > Tina
> >
> > Tina Fanetti
> > Physics Instructor
> > Western Iowa Technical Community College
> > 4647 Stone Ave
> > Sioux City IA 51102
> > 712-274-8733 ext 1429
The math dept. is wondering why the students can't read since one can't
learn much math without being able to read.   Moreover, to steal a page
from S. Harris, they were still saying, " I thought we didn't have to
learn chain rule," when I retired.   (I have taught in one math dept.
and three chemical engineering departments --- thermodynamics in two out
of the three chemical engineering depts. and in one of the two ---
thermodynamics for non-chemical engineers, mostly electrical engineering
students in a Sleazy Little Diploma Mill in Upstate New York, as I
agreed to call my painful four years working for peanuts -- not that I
ever paid much attention to money always having enough except for two or
three years dragging a drum set around New York after digesting my three
Drake's Oatmeal Cookies per day nutritional allowance.   Cost:  ten
cents per day.)

Regards / T

And with that he closed his computer :-)  to the relief of the
compulsive finishers around here, I.a., those who had to wade through
Tom's scatterbrained digressions because they read everything.   "God
bless you every one."