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If I make a mistake on a slide… Anecdotes
• Then in the next lecture I highlight it with a • Add some colour to the lecture by telling
pear symbol stories that happened to you
– e.g. The radioactive watch story
• “Pear shaped” is a British idiom for • Or to someone else
something going wrong – e.g. The Tacoma Narrows Bridge
Pretty tedious!
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The Penguin Poo problem Other good Ig-Nobel examples:
• Ig-Nobel prize winners 2005 in Fluid • World’s slowest dropping liquid experiment
Dynamics (viscosity)
• Fatalities cause by coconuts falling from
Polar Biology paper trees (kinematics, kinetic energy,
conservation of energy, gravitational
potential energy)
Uses the Poiseuille equation to predict the force of • The teenager repelling device (limit of
expulsion of the penguin poo, and hence how far it human hearing changes with age)
is thrown from the nest
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Not only from the students The How Not to Do Something
• I had a typo on my lecture slide discussing Strategy
the size of the atomic nucleus
• Real size 10-15 m
• I wrote 1015 m = 1,000,000,000,000 km!