{"id":1896,"date":"2007-10-27T10:47:09","date_gmt":"2007-10-27T10:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/10\/27\/physics-of-engine-repair\/"},"modified":"2007-10-27T10:47:09","modified_gmt":"2007-10-27T10:47:09","slug":"physics-of-engine-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/10\/27\/physics-of-engine-repair\/","title":{"rendered":"Physics of Engine Repair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com\/2007\/10\/do-you-know-enough-physics-to-be-diesel.html\">Physics Buzz<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forddoctorsdts.com\/quizzes\/MechanicalAptitude.php\">Mechanical Aptitude Test for diesel technicians<\/a>. It&#8217;s fifty basic physics questions, covering a wide range of material from introductory physics: basic concepts of force and torque, a little bit of electrical circuits, and even some thermodynamics.<\/p>\n<p>I got 45\/50, which is a passing score. I suspect that I bombed the handful of questions involving specific engine terminology, because I know as much about cars as I do about 11-dimensional superstring theory.<\/p>\n<p>Somebody needs to sit down with the authors and explain how units work&#8211; forces are not measured in kilograms&#8211; but there&#8217;s some good stuff there. I may make my students take it the next time I teach intro mechanics&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Physics Buzz, a Mechanical Aptitude Test for diesel technicians. It&#8217;s fifty basic physics questions, covering a wide range of material from introductory physics: basic concepts of force and torque, a little bit of electrical circuits, and even some thermodynamics. I got 45\/50, which is a passing score. I suspect that I bombed the handful&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/10\/27\/physics-of-engine-repair\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Physics of Engine Repair<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-physics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}