DiStefano's message comes a day after Professor Jerry Peterson, chairman of the Boulder Faculty Assembly, told the Daily Camera that, under his own "personal policy," he plans to cancel class if he ever learns any of his students are carrying firearms. [More]I'm surprised, as a Physics professor, that he wasn't aware of what happens when you push too hard...
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I think that what he really forgot is Newton's First Law of Motion.
"Every object continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless compelled to change that state by external forces acted upon it."
It must suck to be a pinball in the cosmos, getting compelled to change like that.
A college professor masses 80 Kg. The college professor was moving at 100 KPH before a collision with the university, which masses 5x10^9 and is moving at 0.1 KPH. Calculate the final velocities. Assume a perfectly elastic collision.
Wonder what would happen if it became "known" by the prof just before each class that a student was carrying? He couldn't search each student, that would be assault, right? He'd have to put up or shut up.
Instead of Jerry Peterson, you would be better served by University of Massachusetts at Boston Associate Professor of Physics Ed Ginsberg:
http://web.mit.edu/mitprc/www/files/secretary-notes2005.pdf
Yes, that is a UMB professor working with the pistol at MIT. Marksmanship is applied physics.
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