Aug 27, 2008 21:26
...is that the prof has to assume that no one in the class knows anything. So, after a 15 minute discussion of SI prefixes and what they mean numerically (nano, Mega, pica, etc.), the prof poses this question:
If a bottle of wine is labled as 75 centiliters, how many milliliters does it contain?
After 10 minutes of dimensional analysis (which I remember from THE FOURTH GRADE) I came up with this answer: None. I had to freaking drink it all just to make this lecture tolerable.