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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

My Physics Book is Annoying

This chapter is about Models of Thermodynamics

"At first it seems almost like magic. And to an "outsider" to the field, it is very analogous to magic, in the sense that you know there must "be a trick," but you cant imagine what it is. When you are reading and making judgments on scientific papers, you don’t want to be like the "jaw-dropped-open-in amazement" spectator, but rather "the insider," who at least knows where the "trick" is occurring, even if you don’t have the skill to perform it yourself. "

-College Physics: A Models Approach by Wendell H. Potter

That passage just leaves me speechless. i mean "speechless"

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

That is truly a piece of drivel, I can't believe it comes from a college text book !!!

7:06 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"They" "know" how to "construct" a "textbook".
hb

9:02 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That came out of one of your college textbooks??? I think a tiny piece of my soul just died.

10:00 AM  

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