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Posted by Geoffrey Negus
on 24/12/2007, 12:51 pm, in reply to "Re: George Easom"
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I'm afraid Mr Easom (despite his metre rule), physics and I did not see eye to eye.
Because my maths was weak and without O-level Maths and English progression into the 6th form was unlikely, I scived (sp?) Physics for the last two terms, using the time to work at maths.
But I was tipped off that if I didn't turn up to do the exam, there would be trouble. So I did turn up - and saw there was just one question I could answer: "Define a force".
If I remember correctly, I wrote, "A force is that which changes or tends to change a state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line". Then, about 5 minutes into the exam, I walked out of the hall. I recall people turning round, looking baffled, as I passed them. But "they" could get me for not turning up.
Several decades later, my daughter was one of the top 20 passes in GCSE physics in the country in her exam board - and went on to get a double first in history at Cambridge.
Obviously all down to her father's genes.
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