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2.5. empty 3 gal bucket, and pour remaining 2 gals from 5 gal
bucket into 3 gal bucket.

 

LOL
Did you get and ECO signed off for that change?

 

Hi Dave,

I was once tested at an interview to draw a simple 2-cylinder part with
an axial hole. I was given the part and told: draw this, but no
artistic drawings (I guess the guys there had some surprises before).
This is probabily a good idea, and you can add 2-3 more parts and ask
them to make an assys and put them in dwg.
The whole "project" should take about 30 min tops and will show
knowledge of SW basics.

Hope it works,
G.

 

1. fill the 3 gal bucket
2. dump 3 gals into the 5 gal bucket
3. fill 3 gal bucket again
4. fill the remainder of the 5 gal bucket from the 3 gal, leaving 1 gal
in the 3 gal bucket
5. dump the 5 gal bucket
6. dump 1 remaining gal from 3 gal bucket into 5
7. fill 3 gal, and dump into 5 gal making 4 gals

 

1. Fill 3 gal bkt.
2. Empty into 5 gal bkt.
3. Fill 3 gal bkt.
4. Empty into 5 gal bkt till 1 gal remains
5. Empty 5 gal bkt.
6. Empty 3 gal bkt into 5 gal bkt
7. Fill 3 gal bkt and go home.

Step 7 in your solution is two steps.

1. Fill 5 gal bkt
2. Empty into 3 gal bkt till 2 remain
3. Empty 3 gal bkt
4. Empty 5 gal bkt into 3 gal bkt
5. Fill 5 gal bkt
6. Empty 5 gal bkt into 3 gal bkt leaving 4 gal
7. Go back with 5 gal bkt and tell him you lost the 3 gal bkt.

 

OOOOOHHH.K.
How about: Step 1
Sorry Dad, no time , going to the movies

 

Yes, you would see something.

The speed of light is relative to the observer so the lights turned on in
the vehicle would be traveling at the speed of light faster than the
vehicle. In essence the vehicle is standing still relative to the
headlights' light.

The trick, is that an observer standing still on the ground watching the
vehicle pass by would see the light passing at the speed of light and not
2*speed of light, assuming the shock wave created by a vehicle displacing
that much air that quickly doesn't kill the observer.

--Scott

Like the comedian Stephen Wright once said to an interviewer...
If it was dark and you were in a vehicle traveling at the speed of
light...
would you see anything if you turned on the headlights???
LOL
We need a mind binder of a riddle everyday on this newsgroup!

 

Damn Swizzle! Thanks for the explaination!! Now where did you pick up
that bit of information? Are you a quantum physics major? or just a
savy internet explorer??? LOL

 

Only in it's own reference frame. But it could never get to the speed
of light anyway so the question is moot.

IIRC Phase waves can go faster than the speed of light <g>.

 

Actually, I'm a mechanical engineering major, but I did really well in my
quantum physics class in college.

This tidbit of info happens to be because of a skewed interest I still
maintain in that subject matter so I happen to come across relativistic
topics in my readings.

--Scott

Damn Swizzle! Thanks for the explaination!! Now where did you pick up
that bit of information? Are you a quantum physics major? or just a
savy internet explorer??? LOL

 

No, as you counld never go that fast.
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/relativ/tdil.html

Interestingly, the intergal of the Lorentz factor becomes
{ intergal [dx/([sqrt](1 - V^2))] = arcsin (V) + A } where V is in units of C
and A is a constant.

 

Which guy?