Who knew physics could be so much fun???

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Who knew physics could be so much fun???

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This must be some teacher...

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In the Cross Connection and backflow repair business, hydraulic, and flow/psi calculations took me to the edge of my abilities :oops:
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I was thinking "that's going to leave a mark"
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Just as I suspected...
Ya don't have to be smart to be a professor -- even at BYU..!
I reckon his belly 'smarts' though..
Sure wouldn't wanna try it with anything even marginally heavier than a pingpong ball..
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A typically 'sedate' .45 Colt bullet loafs along at, say, 880 fps.. That is 600 m.p.h... And we know what kind of damage it is capable of..
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A B-Y university professor?... "I don't think I will do that again" What a doofuss... If he had in smarts, he wouldn't have done it in the first place.... :shock: Sheesh!
His IQ... one pingpong ball smarter than he was before... :lol:
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Now there's a professor who is able to keep the class awake and engaged! You don't find many with that willingness to throw heart and soul into teaching science. And he'd obviously done the math and knew from the low momentum figure that he wasn't in serious danger from the fast ping-pong ball. He gets "two thumbs up" from me.
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As an old Professor myself I really admire his style. Good lesson and they aren't likely to ever forget it.
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"Now there's a professor who is able to keep the class awake and engaged! You don't find many with that willingness to throw heart and soul into teaching science. And he'd obviously done the math and knew from the low momentum figure that he wasn't in serious danger from the fast ping-pong ball. He gets "two thumbs up" from me."

ME TOO !!! :D
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He took one for the class :!: Those students (even the 3 girls that were late) will never forget that days lesson.
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A perfect example of why one should not hunt water buff with a .17 cal. rifle....
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Yep, a teacher with a SET and not afraid to use'm,would have loved to have a teacher like that.
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