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PS Mel I hope you feel better soon.
I’ll be fine… I feel like I’ve got the normal winter coldy/flu thing. *sigh* You know up until this year I could count the number of days I’d had off on my fingers but this year I’ve been really ill… It’s actually really boring!
Only 10 online now…
Snuggle down under the duvet and sleep it off! Enjoy not having to go out in the wind and rain
I recommend lots of cups of tea and Tesco chocolate ginger biscuits!!!!
My advice exactly Mrs Tibble!!!
Oh my goodness I cannot believe that I missed the 13 people online!! But there are 11 at the moment… which is still amazing!
Lots and lots and lots of love Mel xxxxx
I know it’s late but could anyone please help me with this:
There is a gradient of 1/2 and point (3, -1)… finding the equation of the line, giving answer in the form ax + by + c:
y – y1 = m(x – x1)
y + 1 = 1/2(x – 3)
and from there I get:
x – 2y – 1 = 0
but the mark scheme gives
x – 2y – 5 = 0
What am I doing wrong?!
Change side, change sign with the 2.
I don’t understand, what 2?
y + 1 = 1/2(x – 3) is correct.
Multiply LHS by 2 to get rid of the half.
2y + 2 = x – 3
x – 2y – 3 – 2 = 0
x – 2y – 5 = 0
Oh right… thanks. Sorry I’m getting so worked about about this exam! I’m making stupid mistakes and the more papers I seem to do, the worse I seem to do
Will scrabble you back shortly 
Sounds like it’s time for a cuppa then!! Don’t do any more papers tonight – it will be counter-productive.
JT
HOW DID IT GO!? I’m so sorry not to have been around to give encouragement, but I hope it was all fantastic like the fantastic people you are, and DO NOT worry about it. I know what you’re like! Just take a deep breath and focus on the next exam! And you’ll do fine! And I’ll see you soon- Friday if not tomorrow
I thought it was good
Though I’m stressing about mechanics now
i thought it went well also, and am also a bit worried about mechanics if i am to be honest
Glad it went OK. When is M1?
Take care Mel. Don’t come back too soon.
Friday, alongside our two physics modules
Nice jam packed day!
*Friday in the morning
umm are there any M1 papers posted anywhere???
i’ve done all mine and just want to do one more b4 2morrow
danka
Actually ignore that i found them online
Hi Mrs Tibble, I was just wondering if we had any Decision homework due for tomorrow? Sorry, it’s just been so long since we had our lesson I can’t for the life of me remember
Hope you’re having a good weekend
It’s a good job you asked that – I hadn’t even realised there was a lesson tomorrow!!!! Cos it’s whole school on exams, I forgot you lot were coming in. Will everyone be there because the next lesson is important for critical path analysis.
Oops – didn’t answer the question! The only possible homework was finish 5A if you didn’t do it in class.
Gosh I’m not sure actually, I know that Fiona and I will definitely be in because all of our resits are over… but I’m not sure about the others… Sorry, that wasn’t helpful at all!!
Any chance of texting the others to find out?
Mel will be in cos her sociology(sp) isn’t until a wendnesday…i don’t know which one tho.
I have no idea about india or lojana and have no way of contacting either of them…sorry
OK Thanks
Yeah I don’t have either Lojana or India’s number sorry
Can I just point out, however irrelevant it now is, that my sociology exam is first thing on monday morning- nothing to do with wednesday at all
Hmm hmm… Oh and Em I borrowed your book in my free so don’t stress about doing it… And I shall turn my room upside down (and check under my bed!) as soon as I have a spare moment… Have a lovely evening all!
A group of scientists conduct an experiment on 3 students. They lock them each in an empty room on their own for 24 hours with nothing but a pen, some paper, and a tin of food (but no tin opener).
In the first room is a Chemistry student. After the 24 hours, the scientists examine his room. They find that he has eaten the contents of the tin, and he tells them that he threw the tin against the wall repeatedly until it cracked open.
In the second room is a Physics student. When they examine his room, again, they find the contents of the tin eaten. However, the paper is covered with reams and reams of calculations. The student tells them that he worked out exactly how to throw the tin against the wall so that it would crack open first time, and succeeded.
In the third room is a Maths student. However, when the scientists examine the room, there is no sign of him. The paper is, as with the Physics student, covered in calculations. But the scientists suddenly realise that strange sounds are coming from inside the tin. They immediately open it, and the Mathematician crawls out, saying: “Gosh! I got a sign wrong!”
!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lol! Is that a good ‘!!!!!!!!!!!!’ or a bad ‘!!!!!!!!!!!!’??
Ok try this:
Person 1: What’s the integral of 1/cabin?
Person 2: A natural log cabin.
Person 1: No, a houseboat – you forgot to add the c!
(I have to admit I’ve found these on The Student Room!!!) But I think that last one was so funny!!
Last one I promise!!
sinx, cosx and e^x go into a bar, sin and cos are having a right laugh,
but e^x is just sitting in the corner. cos asks him, why dont u integrate like us? e^x says, it wouldnt make a difference
Mrs Tibble could you please just remind me what questions you wanted us to do for homework? Sorry emma’s head = an unorganised sieve
What does an organised sieve look like?!!
Finish 5C then do 5D which is a continuation of the 5C questions.
Have you seen there’s no more Scrabulous?
(
Gosh! I read about that in the papers the other day… but I presumed that they were only talking about scrapping the facebook version because facebook were breaching the copyright!! I didn’t realise that Scrabulous was being removed completely! Mrs Tibble!! What are we going to do
You’ll have to do some knitting – or get back to your family tree! Or even …… more maths lol!
Oh yeah, my family tree! I forgot about that! But I really enjoyed playing scrabble
Is it definitely going? And when? We’ll have to squeeze as many games in as possible until then!
Mrs Tibble, I have plotted my giraffe (Geoff the Giraffe) and have coloured him in!
Took me ages last night! Will you please put him on your wall?
Hope you are having fun at school today
lol!!
Don’t we always have fun at school??
Would you like Geoffrey laminated?
PS The walls are now finished
and Mr Atkins has eaten all the chocolate gingers
The walls? As in putting up work on the walls in the classroom? Or the walls you painted in your office lol? :-/
Yes of course we have fun at school… it’s just that I was glad of the lie in this morning
Yes please, preserved forever between two sheets of plastic
Hmm how did Mr Atkins get hold of the biscuit barrell?!
okay so i no TECHNICALLY this isn’t maths
but if i have 1.58 = 1/sinC
how do i find c??
sinC = 1/1.58
C = sin^-1 1/1.58
danka
and again i no this isn’t maths, but i’m getting 0.68 as a critical angle :S
(btw if physics had one of these i wouldn’t ask u my physics questions online)
Maths and physics are inseparable, Fiona!!
And I guessed it was refraction – aren’t I clever?!!
Try taking your calculator out of radian mode!!! It needs to be in degrees for physics. Then you’ll get 39.3 degrees.
haha, i so didn’t notice it was in radians
that makes so much sense
thank you
PS It would be O.69 radians too if you had rounded correctly!!!
I’m really stuck on binomial expansions, I know this is probably so stupid but no matter what I try I don’t get anywhere near the answers in the back of the book… I don’t seem to have mastered even just the basic principle of it…
For instance,
(4 + 2x) ^ (1/2)
= 2 (1 + x/2) ^ (1/2)
= 2 [1 + x/2 – 0.25 (x^2/16) + 0.375 (x^3/64)
But I’ve done something really wrong I know because the answer in the back of the book just gives
= 2 + x/2 – x^2/16 + x^3/64
