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taste funny to you?" |
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food in here." |
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electron." The other says, "Are you sure?" The first replies,
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| I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day but I couldn't find
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At my last birthday party, everyone was required to
bring a joke. Rudy and Jorja brought this
one, which drew lots of laughs. Not wanting to retype the whole thing, I did a search
on Google--and found that this story (with minor variations) appears on some
2900 Web sites.
The following is an actual question given
on a University of Washington chemistry midterm. The answer was so
"profound" that the professor shared it with colleagues, which is why
we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well.
Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives
off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?
Most of the students wrote proofs
of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools off when it expands and heats up
when compressed) or some variant. One student,
however, wrote the following:
First, we need to know how the mass of
Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate that souls are moving
into Hell and the rate they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume
that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are
leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different
religions that exist in the world today. Some of these religions state that if
you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there are
more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than
one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death
rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase
exponentially.
Now, we look at the rate of change of the
volume of Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for temperature and
pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand as souls
are added.
This gives two possibilities:
- If Hell is expanding at a slower rate
than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure
in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.
- Of course, if Hell is expanding at a
rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and
pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.
So, which is it? If we accept the
postulate given to me by Ms. Teresa Banyan during my freshman year, that
"it will be a cold night in Hell before I sleep with you," and take
into account the fact that I have still not succeeded in having sexual
relations with her, then #2 cannot be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is
exothermic and will not freeze.
This student received the only "A"
given.
