a good laugh!

[Lidia]

Some of you may have already received this as an email and read it, but to those of you who have not, here is a little something to make you laugh

 

 

Subject: ACTUAL QUESTION ON CHEMISTRY EXAM

 

The following is supposedly an actual question given on a

 

University of Washington chemistry mid-term:

 

The answer by one student was so "profound" that the professor shared it

with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, 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 when it expands and heats when it is

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 at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate

at which 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. Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of

their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is 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

in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and

pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand

proportionately as souls are added.

 

This gives two possibilities:

 

1. 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.

 

2. 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 Teresa during my Freshman year

that, "it will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you, and take

into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number 2

must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already

frozen over. The corollary of this theory is that

 

since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more

souls and is therefore, extinct...leaving only Heaven thereby proving

the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa

kept shouting "Oh my God."

 

THIS STUDENT RECEIVED THE ONLY A

[FatB]

aah yes

 

we spent a hole priode analising this students answer in one of our phisics class. we had a realy good laugh of it

 

 

must admit this student must have had a lot of time to spare in his exam lool