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Re: 16.02 (Aerodynamics - Professor Sheila Widnall)
dkk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dkk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Mar 3 19:35:00 1989
16.00X, actually. Unifried Engineering. About 5 years ago.
Professor Sheila E Widnall does some math on the chalkboard in 35-225.
While she is talking to the class, one of the students points out
a sign error in her answer.
Her response:
"Whatever. It doesn't matter. I'll put the minus sign there
if you like..." [She carelessly makes a more-or-less horizontal
mark on the chalkboard where the minus sign should be.]
This was followed by an explanation that we were studying fluids.
We weren't supposed to use actual numbers, that's why the variables
were all capital letters. They were concepts, not values.
I guess the TA's didn't keep this in mind when grading our problem
sets...
