Day nth: This Blog Gets A New Life

After totally wasting the last month playing computer games, I'm back into the "study" mood. Module IV is in full swing, and guess what, we have a mid-term module test. Our demands for change in chemistry teacher has also fizzled out, just like the anti-quota movement. We have four 4-hour classes a week, and we seriously need a break. Our teachers seem to have no regrets grilling us.

I also got hold of some cool softwares and games. For example, check out Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy

Using the Quake 3: Arena core engine, LucasArts presents yet another stunning title in the form of Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy. Visit the official website here

For mathfanatics like me, comes a graphing software: GNU Octave. GNU scores again as it delivers a programming language capable of drawing 2-D or even 3-D graphs using simple equations or relations.

Now it is possible to run Linux applications on top of Windows, using Cygwin: a linux emulator that runs on windows. Click here to find more

Some more problems:

1. This one is too easy: In a cricket match, only two balls are left, and the team needs 200 runs to win. The current score is 188. How is it possible that each player on the crease scores a 6 and the team wins?

2. Find the roots of 2^x=x^2

3. In the figure below, there are 7 bridges across rivers. Starting from any point, walk across all bridges, never visiting any bridge twice.

Today's Formula:

Between two capacitor plates, the electric field is given by,

E=σ/ε