Geeking up football
Okay, just a quick rant here. Navy is doing really well this year and looks to win the "Commander in Chief trophy" (best record of the service academies) for the fourth straight year. This is all fine and well. But I have to take exception to a quote from one of the Navy players to the AP:
Ballard, who was named the game's MVP, gained the tough yards inside. Afterward, the economics major had a simple explanation for his success.
"A lot of it is just momentum," he said. "You know, mass times acceleration. It comes down to that." (emphasis added)
Okay, I know the guy is an econ major, but if he's going to talk like this someone has to sit down and teach him some physics. Momentum is NOT mass times acceleration - it's mass times velocity (p = mv); Force is mass times acceleration (F = ma). Seriously, what are they teaching these kids at Annapolis?
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Haha, and how high into the air were you sticking your nose when you wrote that? You remind me of my friend, also named Alex, who, during a casual conversation not really touching on any one topic, breaks out with a mention of "dialectical meterialism." OK, so maybe it's not the same thing, but to be honest, I'm impressed an econ major knows even something about physics. That said, perhaps he shouldn't be using that as actach phrase if he doesn't know what it means.
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