Re: [Phys-l] Good Questions

[jbellina <jbellina@saintmarys.edu>]

Has anyone looked at Eric Mazur's question set...I think they are  
very good.

joe

Joseph J. Bellina, Jr. Ph.D.
Professor of Physics
Saint Mary's College
Notre Dame, IN 46556

On Oct 10, 2006, at 2:35 PM, Jeffrey Schnick wrote:

> 1) (A premed student once asked me this one.)  When a person  
> suffers an
> electric shock injury, is it the voltage or is it the current that  
> does
> the damage?
>
> 2) (A psychology professor asked was doing Alzheimer research on rats
> using the Morris water maze
> http://www.watermaze.org/
> asked me about this one.)  How would you go about canceling out the
> earth's magnetic field in the region of the surface of the water in a
> 1-meter deep pool (he used a deeper pool than the one depicted at
> watermaze.org) of water having a circular surface of diameter 1.8
> meters?
>
> 3) A neighbor asked me whether she should cool or heat a pot of  
> soup on
> which a slightly oversized lid had become stuck after she heated up  
> the
> soup in it.  While I was on the phone with her, her husband got it off
> by means of a vice.  (I guess he put the pot in a vice and knocked the
> lid off with a hammer.)
>
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> Parker
> Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2006 6:26 PM
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> Subject: [Phys-l] Good Questions
>
> I am looking for good questions...
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