If an Observer is Run Over by a Train and Nobody is There to Hear it…. @ otoh

If an Observer is Run Over by a Train and Nobody is There to Hear it….

I was recently directed to the blog ZERO out of FIVE – But you get an ‘A’ for Effort, self-described as,

Since high school I have always answered every question on every test, even if that meant making something up. I always hoped for, but never received sympathy marks. This blog is my collection of tests from other people that tried the same.

Reading back through the archives I found this post — one of the funniest (and truest) student answers I have seen:

A train is blowing it’s [sic] whistle while traveling at a speed of 22.0 m/s. The speed of sound is 343 m/s. Observer A is directly in front of the train, while observer B is directly behind it. Find the whistle frequency heard by A and that heard by B.

The student deduced from the fact that Observer A is directly in front of the train that:

Observer A is dead.

Posted on March 16th, 2009 Tim 4 comments

Education, humor, otoh
4 responses to “If an Observer is Run Over by a Train and Nobody is There to Hear it….”
1. mary March 16th, 2009 at 17:35
  
  well, that student deserves a point for common sense!
2. lime March 17th, 2009 at 14:41
  
  LOL, the student is smarter than the writer of the test.
3. Becky March 17th, 2009 at 17:28
  
  Haha — that’s awesome. I never had the guts to answer something clever like that. I would always try the math to at least get partial credit for showing my work. Kind of nerdy, huh?
4. snowelf March 17th, 2009 at 22:39
  
  best.answer.ever.
  
  –snow

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