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From: blackje@sunspot.steinmetz (Emmett Black)
Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: PUZZLE
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Date: 12 Apr 89 02:52:19 GMT
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>In article <746@aoa.UUCP>, carl@aoa.UUCP (Carl Witthoft) writes:
>> This is clearly a blatant attempt to get net physics gurus to help
>> this student cheat in class :=).  

Let's not forget that MIT teaches people to be ENGINEERS;
and good Engineers should make the most effective use of the
resources available to them.
The student in question will certainly not get a COMPLETE answer
from the net; and the net will certainly not build the motor.
However, a clue or a reference might be obtained to set a creative
developing engineer's mind at work to seize a better solution!
The query to the net is therefore not unlike seeking a reference
in an encyclopedia -- or other references in the library...

Remember the law school fable of the professor who gave an impossibly
large assignment?  No single student, or even a study group had a prayer
of completing it.  The study groups agreed to exchange parts of the 
assignment;  and drew up contracts with each other to protect themselves.
The course was "contracts" and the content of the assignment had nothing
whatever to do with the lesson being taught.

--Emmett
	J.E.Black; GE Research/K1-3C26; Schenectady, NY 12345
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