QuarkChild
Critical Thinker
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- Nov 19, 2002
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I was writing homework solutions this evening for a class that I'm TAing for, and one of the problems mentioned a Rolex watch by name. It went something like, "An astronaut traveling in a spaceship going .9c is wearing a Rolex watch. If his colleagues on Earth measure his transit time to be 12 hours, what time does he read on his Rolex watch?"
Were the Rolex people paying off the textbook publishers, or is this standard practice? I've never read anything like it before.
If I was the professor, I would have refused to assign that particular problem. (He had 30 or 40 possible problems to choose from, so he needn't have chosen that particular one.)
Any thoughts on this? Maybe I'm overreacting, as usual.
Were the Rolex people paying off the textbook publishers, or is this standard practice? I've never read anything like it before.
If I was the professor, I would have refused to assign that particular problem. (He had 30 or 40 possible problems to choose from, so he needn't have chosen that particular one.)
Any thoughts on this? Maybe I'm overreacting, as usual.