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( not entirely true but MOST of what I learnt has long gone)
If you were a dentist or dental hygienist, you might have!
Not much dental work involved operating a 500 megawatt power station generating unit
. A double detention was the price paid for that class interruption.
Bit surprised by that - also an engineer (mostly railways) and sometimes had quite a lot of differentiation and integration in working stuff out like acceleration curves and times and distance run. Not sure the word "calculus" got used though.
At my secondary school in the late 1950s, there was always one "bright spark" whose humorous sense bordered on the ridiculous, at the cost of many subsequent detentions, and in the Lower Fourth year Mathematics lessons, he had the temerity to ask the teacher if his dad's mum set opposite his mum's mum at the table, could that be described as being a "parallelogran"...
I think the energy released by nuclear fission might challenge that...
It was over years ago, but in most cases that is correct, even if it is a simple car engine analogy. That said I think the concept of nuclear fission existed back then.
I'm not a mathematician but have written lots of reports of scientific and other investigations, and Rhombus is a useful word when you are describing a situation or figure which involves one. I'm surprised you didn't propose "frustum" (the solid/3-d version) which is far less well-known!
Nuclear fission has been recognised for well over a century, and getting energy out of it for a bomb was an objective for both sides in WW2. Solar and wind do fit in with your premise - it comes from the sun (which is a fusion reactor) and after that is only changed into electricity by either clever pv chemistry or mechanical and electrical engineering.It was over [?] years ago, but in most cases that is correct, even if it is a simple car engine analogy. That said I think the concept of nuclear fission existed back then.
I suppose solar and wind energy can challenge that too but that is perhaps for a separate thread
I don't want to become known on this website for finding the least-well known parts of verbosity (perhaps I might have crossed the forbidden line already.
).so I settled for a middle line in citing "rhombus".
Correction... and I'm amazed I haven't been picked up by any pub quizzers here, let alone our resident Grecian!
I did not say I did not know of them, just that they had never been part of a business or social conversation that I had since leaving school then university. Just think, in two years time, it will be 60 years since I left university.
