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The Tricky Professor
Introductory Chemistry at Duke has been taught for a long
time by Professor Bonk, and his course is semi-affectionately known as
"Bonkistry."
Anyway, one year there were these two guys who were taking Chemistry and who
did pretty well on all of the quizzes and the midterms and labs, etc., such
that going into the final they had a solid "A".
These two friends were so confident going into the final that the weekend
before finals week (even though the Chem final was on Monday), they decided to
go up to UVirginia and party with some friends up there. So they did this and
had a great time. However, with their hangovers and everything, they overslept
all day Sunday and didn't make it back to Duke until early monday morning.
Rather than taking the final then, what they did was to find Professor Bonk
after the final and explain to him why they missed the final. They told him
that they went up to UVa for the weekend, and had planned to come back in time
to study, but that they had a flat tire on the way back and didn't have a spare
and couldn't get help for a long time and so were late getting back to campus.
Bonk thought this over and then agreed that they could make up the final on the
following day. The two guys were elated and relieved.
So, they studied that night and went in the next day at the time that Bonk had
told them. He placed them in separate rooms and handed each of them a test
booklet and told them to begin. They looked at the first problem, which was
something simple about molarity and solutions and was worth 5 points. "Cool"
they thought, "this is going to be easy." They did that problem and then turned
the page. They were unprepared, however, for what they saw on the next page. It
said:
(95 points) Which tire?
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