Physics is my Life

2 chapters/week x (1 lesson + 100 problems)/chapter x 5 minutes/problem x 1 hour/60 minutes + 3 hours/lesson = 22.67 hours per week.

Enough said.

I'm going to take a department examination (challenge exam) for physics II- when I find out which professor will be writing it, I may be able to skip 12 or so of the 24 chapters left in the book. (Read: above x 0.5) No one really covers all these chapters in one semester, but no one seems to agree on which ones should be skipped :o)

This little project is squeezed in between 4 other classes and work.

But- the chapter I'm marching through now is really, really neat. It touches on everything we did in Jr. Music. Check out these cool problems:
*How far from the mouthpiece of a flute should the hole be that must be uncovered to play D above Middle C (294 Hz)?
*What resonant frequency would you expect from blowing across the top of an empty soda bottle 18 cm deep, if you assumed it was a closed tube? If it was 1/3 full of soda?
*by what percent should a piano tuner tighten or loosen the tension on a string that should be vibrating at 132 Hz but is currently producing 3 beats every 2 seconds with a string actually vibrating at that frequency?

...and many other neat things of more varied scope.

And speaking of, I have now officially abandoned the project for a whole hour to peruse blogs, etc. , so I better go back to it before supper.