Saturday, April 22, 2006

physics lab practicals with wanjoo.

we are currently doing electricity for physics. a topic that i absolutely fail to relate with. all the bulbs, currents, ammeters, voltmeters, batteries, wires boggle my mind.

so we happily triapsed over to physics lab 3 on level 2 yesterday to spend the next one hour getting acquainted with wires and bulbs. and believe me, we did.

in the process of constructing circuits, very obviously, bulbs were involved. seeing the need for more than one bulb in the circuit, each pair in the bench was assigned three bulbs. which wanjoo and i proceeded to label bulb A, B, and C.

Bulb A was used for the first circuit.

joo: hey! angie can't light up!
me: huh? did you just NAME our bulb?!
joo: yeah!

Bulb B was used to construct the second circuit. (it didn't work)

joo: his name is DERRICK.
me: uhhh. why derrick?!

Bulb C was maggie.

after realising that they all weren't working, we decided to borrow a bulb from lakshmi and priya.

joo: hey since the brand of the battery is german, "Sonnenschein" which means sunshine, we should think of a name that's german so the bulbs will work better. do you know any?
me: ehh. no, not really.
joo: i know! ADOLF!
me: ohh, okay! and the surname shall be, REGENSCHIRM (umbrella in german)

and it worked!

however, one bulb was not enough. we decided that all our bulbs should have exotic names so they would all light up.

derrick became uwe guten tag, "uwe" from my previous german teacher's name, and "guten tag" being "good day" in german. true enough, the newly named uwe shone fine and bright for us.

maggie was renamed, waikiki honolulu, but unfortunately persisted in its old ways, and did not light up.

me: hey! waikiki's not lighting up!
joo: maybe waikiki's not particularly bright!

Posted by STINKY @ 8:39 PM