<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">On 7 Jan 2014 at 10:00, Gary Forsmo wrote:</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">>> Question:</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">>> At what temperature does the Fahrenheit and Celsius thermometers read the</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">>> same numeric value?</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">>I know the answer, but I won't spill the beans, because it would be</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">>like cheating: That's a standard first year Physics question.  ;-)</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">>It's -13 F here, as I type, but it's supposed to get above +5 later</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">>today. That might be the heat wave I need for my square to start.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">--</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">>Jim Adney, </span><a href="mailto:jadney@vwtype3.org" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">jadney@vwtype3.org</a><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">.Madison, Wisconsin, USA</span><br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Jim, I thought you would know the answer.  </span></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">And I appreciate your not "spilling the beans", to others on the list.</span></div>
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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">How many first year Physics students know the answer, without doing the calculation?</span></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>Gary "Frito" - '69 Variant, FI, MT<br>
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