Friday, May 28, 2010

Lab Session

My friends and I had a whooping time for the Electronics Lab session. Talk about electronics-capacitors, diodes, transformers.......the lecturer herself admits that she has never seen a class that did so many things like we did. For instance:

-The circuit short-circuit for countless times. You could hear the switch *tak* * tak* *tak* (switching off itself automatically) the whole time.

-The lecturer herself got shocked by electric when attempting to turn on the power supply(classic)
how it happened:
the readings obtained practically differs from theoretically. So she did some checks and after that asked me to plug it back. Unfortunately, the circuit was quite confusing. So.....i plug wrongly. And when she hit the switch on button, *zapppp*
"owh! did you hear that? i can feel the electric!"
later on,
"wah, half my head feels zapped!"
sorry lecturer, my bad.......

-One of the groups made fireworks out of a capacitor
How it happened:
Mr Kit and Mr Jin are in the same group. They connected everything and Mr Kit hit the 'on' switch.
*BOOFFFF!!!!!*
Heads turned and mouths opened. A cloud of white smoke could be seen hovering above their circuit before disappearing. Mr Jin could be seen at the far side of the room on top of a table. From his table to the other end took less than 1 second.
lecturer: "boy, you better keep it already. I don't want you to do it anymore."

I wonder what will happen to the next lab class. Would something like:
Lecturer: "you must all wear rubber gloves, boots, and apron to protect yourself"
I wonder.....

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