|Young folks celebrating Pi Day at San Francisco's|
Exploratorium. Photo from CNN.com here.
It was 1959, the space race was in full swing, and mimeograp'ing was the technology of the day for producing student exams. This was a general science class and was one of the physics components. The purple ink questions have long faded away, but perhaps you can guess them from the answers:
(1/2 provided your initial velocity is zero)
Then there is the comment: "You deserve a medal. If you were a boy you should be made a knight." Gzsh,
shouldn't have at least told me I could be a Dame?
And, in pencil on the left
side of the astronaut sketch written
a bout ten years later when I
had done an internship at NASA,
someone wrote in "An official of
the NASA says there are no
provisions as yet for a woman
astronaut. The exploration
rockets, however, he says,
do provide for 120 pounds
of recreational equipment."
Times have changed, kids, go for it
on Pi Day!! You are great!