Brearley School - Brearley Book Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Now all the apparati are assembled and you are ready to begin the ACTUAL EXPERIMENT. II THE ACTUAL EXPERIMENT Smash ice. Smash finger. Explain to Miss Van Bibber that you did not realize you were swearing. Dry ice. Explain to Miss Van Bibber that you were putting ice down Fanny's neck to dry it. Weigli calorimeter-I-water-l-ice+stirrer-f-thermometer-l-anything else you want to put in it. Weigli calorimeter-water-ice-stirrer-thermometer-anything else you want to take out. Weigli calorimeter -l- water-ice+stirrer-thermometer-l-or-anything else. Take temperature of everything you can lay your hands on. Now the experiment is over, but there yet remains the FIGURING. THE FIGURING Subtract, add, and divide weights and temperatures from each other. Ask Miss Van Bibber if 198991118 + .0973 makes any sense and if 2'l'2f15. Listen to Miss Van Bibber's comments on people who do long division. Ask Miss Van Bibber why your results won't do. Try to make results come out right by man power. Bear up bravely and ask Miss Van Bibber for calorimeter, towel, scales, stirrer, thermometer, paper, water, ice, axe, monkey wrench, steam shovel, etc. And proceed as before. I 671

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PHYSICS Impormfzt Laws and Prifzcipler KIDDER,S LAW: Every cc. of water weighs the same as every other cc., and they all weigh 62.4 lb. MANSHIP,S PRINCIPLE: The ocean does not freeze because it is kept above o'C. by the heat generated by the friction generated when the fishes wave their tails. VEEDER'S THEORY: One is uncomfortable on a humid day because you can't evaporate. SOMERVILLE'S STATEMENT: Energy goes off in little pieces called quan- tums, called quantums in honor of the scientist of that name. Procedure for Experinzefztr This procedure will do for almost any experiment, but for example, take the HEAT OF FUSION OF ICE. I. PREPARATIONS 11. Look up number of experiment to find out what it is all about. 6. Ask Miss Van Bibber what it is all about. t. Ask Miss Van Bibber for apparatus viz.: ice bag ice mallet axe steam shovel, etc. J. Ask E. Gould ffor a changej, where to find more apparatus, viz.: calorimeter thermometer paper towels water i66l

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WHAT THE TEACHERS WOULD SAY ABOUT THIS BOOK if lbey read lhir far. Miss CAREY: An excellent book. Rewrite. Miss VAN BIBBER: How did you get these results? Miss biological side a little. Miss this a little bit quieter? Miss QZQ interesting. Miss SCOTT: The work of dumb driven cattle. MLLE, CHAMPRIGAND: Quel audace! Bien banal. Miss FOWLER: Wliere is my dependable class VIII? Miss SHIPPEN: Better than I expected. MISS MILLS: A little too wordy. Miss CARLING: Oh, children, can't you do any bette that? MR: LAHEY: This has a certain simple strength. l 581 LITTELL: I think you might have brought in thc CAMPBELL: Don't you suppose you could have kept WHITON: This book is neither QU well-written, nor r than