Thursday, July 15, 2004

About rolling friction

Today afternoon went and shifted my apartment from Planet Bleue to FMEL Cedres. Very cool place actually; just beside the lac (means lake, you duffer :-). But, in trying to save money by not taking a cab, I rediscovered quite a few basic laws of physics. Rolling friction while less than the other kind, is definitely there, and there is force. I was walking for 30 minutes (most of it downhill, thank god) and had a very torturous experience. Finally reached though, but not before a very good workout. And had to use a translator with out concierge today. He was trying to explain to me a lot of things, and I could not understand a word. I just caught the word 'fenetre' which means window. He was trying to say that the window is broken and will be repaired.
Net is working very badly today. And all the BTechs have left the lab, as they can't do their chatting which they do uninterrupted everyday. One of them said - how can one live without chat and sms? sms is what is do throughout the class lectures at iit. and switch to yahoo mesg outside of class. :-)