Re: [Phys-l] FW: universal gravitation lab

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

right, my grammar is deficient; I meant about the Millikan.

bc, corrected.

more later, GK awaits

Jack Uretsky wrote:

> A Millikan is a little like a Mexican, only from a different country.
> I thought it was obvious.
> 					Jack
>
>
> On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Herb Gottlieb wrote:
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> > On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:22:55 -0800 Bernard Cleyet
> > <bernardcleyet@redshift.com> writes:
> >    
> >
> > > And I thought the point of the lab was to teach vibration isolation,
> > > patience, technique, and partner co-operation in addition to
> > > "getting a result".
> > >
> > > Quite acceptable data collected on second floor of post and lentil
> > > building [condemned by 1989 earthquake], but some opted to come in
> > > the evening.
> > >      
> > *** What is a condemned "post and lentil building" ?
> > If the building was condemned, how were you able to
> > legally use it?
> >
> >    
> >
> > > Curiously, never heard a complaint, or from the Millikan.
> > >      
> > *** What is "the Millikan" ? Is she, or it, a person or another building
> > on your campus?
> >
> >    
> >
> > > bc,  replacer of the Leybold gold plated suspensions, inter alia.
> > >      
> > *** What technique do you use to replace those gold plated suspensions?
> >
> >    
> >
> > > p.s.  Pre Victorian and Victorians (at the least the well to do who
> > > constituted many of the scientists) had more patience, you read
> > > Trollop lately?
> > >      
> > *** What, Where, or Who is a Trollop?
> >    
> >
> > > John Mallinckrodt wrote:
> > >
> > >      
> > >
> > > > On Feb 12, 2007, at 8:39 AM, Paul Lulai wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >        
> > > >
> > > > > Man, I hated the execution of the Cavendish experiment.  Not only
> > > > >          
> > > come
> > >      
> > >
> > > > > in at night *but also* try to time the buildings HVAC system to
> > > > >          
> > > get a
> > >      
> > >
> > > > > good run... Arrgh.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >          
> > > > I think I've told the story before here, but I had a student years
> > > >        
> > > >
> > > > ago who did the Cavendish lab using the Leybold apparatus.  He
> > > > appeared slumped in my office doorway after an apparently grueling
> > > >        
> > > >
> > > > four hours in the lab and muttered, "Oh boy, professor
> > > >        
> > > Mallinckrodt,
> > >      
> > >
> > > > that Cavendish must have been one patient dude."  I'm skeptical
> > > >        
> > > that
> > >      
> > >
> > > > he fully appreciated the truth of those words.
> > > >
> > > > John Mallinckrodt
> > > >
> > > > Professor of Physics, Cal Poly Pomona
> > > > <http://www.csupomona.edu/~ajm>
> > > >
> > > > and
> > > >
> > > > Lead Guitarist, Out-Laws of Physics
> > > > <http://outlawsofphysics.com>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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