man tht algebra is a piece of piss lol, im in first year of 6thform doing film and double science, tht motorsport enginering stuff seems friken awsome tho, i wud love 2 do tht
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man tht algebra is a piece of piss lol, im in first year of 6thform doing film and double science, tht motorsport enginering stuff seems friken awsome tho, i wud love 2 do tht
its not as "pissing about with race cars" as you think lol.
I found that out the hard way :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuart
pissing about with 3 pages of numbers more like lol i did send someone a rough timetable of mine, since they asked about motorsport eng, but basically, 16 hours of maths 6 or less hours of taking (mostly road) cars apart, but only because in the first year they have to make sure everyone knows that a car has 4 wheels and an engine lol
Stuart, did you do motorsport engineering then, or just talking from a 2nd hand experience?
If you wanted to just take cars apart should have just done mechanics or something, proper engineering will always be about 90% maths.
I did Automotive Electronics Engineering. It was a mashup yo of the motorsport and electronics courses at the university of disney, now known as Swansea Metropolitan lol
So had reasonable first hand experience but tailored my course to suit what I was interested in (I was the only one on my course so could do that)
What they mean by there is no such thing as common sense is that you shouldn't assume everything in the world is the way that you have been raised to believe.
The point of psychology and sociology is to test 'commonsense' theories and see which ones turn out to be true and which turn out to be completely false and to understand why people behave in certain ways
EXAMPLE:
Milgram's Obediance study:
Did a study to see how far people were willing to go in terms of electrocuting someone for making a mistake on a maths test. The person they were electrocuting wasnt actually being electrocuted and was actually in on the deception and was told to pretend they were in increasing amounts of pain as the voltage was increased.
Commonsense would say most people would refuse to go much higher than a voltage that was deemed deadly especially when the other person is screaming and saying they dont want to take part anymore
But most of the participant were willing to administer a 450 volt electric shock to the other person just because someone in a lab coat (an authority figure) told them they had to continue with the experiment even though they didnt want to.
You cant possibly think thats common sense. If you have been told your about to administer a potentially very harmful electric shock, your commonsense should kick in and you should refuse to do it. But most of them did it because someone else told them to.
Most of these people involved in the test were probably students, therefore they probably didn't have any common sense anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by kelbelle
I rest my case.
No actually they were members of the general public
I rest my case
Were they Northern by any chance? :)