The Cambridge Chat Thread

You should go see Eugene Onegin at West Road Concert Hall. I know it's Pushkin but it's amazinggggggggg /shameless plug

Going on Saturday All of the Russianists seem to be going at some point.

I it! Is that a good enough excuse?

Tolstoi is much lovelier than Pushkin, but not suitable reading matter for past 1am nonetheless.

SPS discussion group was a big success

have the winners in your other positions been announced yet?

i know what you mean but is this a real effect or do we just percieve it as so

that is does cooling of a liquid occur exponentially (the cooler it gets the faster it cools as the observation appears to suggest) or is it a direct relationship(it cools at a constant rate- somehow seems more likely)?help me someone who knows things about thermodynamics and fluids (i'm looking somewhere in your direction ukebert(cos you were the first sciency type on this thread to come to mind))

ps. i do realise how geeky and overly scientific that post was but hey i felt like it
pps. for some reason i like coffee that is entirely cold- not iced just cooled down to room temperature yum! just thought i'd share that with you all

Ah, by the way, did you go and see some Marxist talk on revolution at (I believe) the Perne club a few weeks ago?

sps

I'm fairly sure you can model it with an exponential curve - if you just apply Newton's law of cooling, you get $dT/dt = -k(T-T_a)$ (where $T_a$ is the ambient temperature) with the solution $T(t) = T_a + (T_0 - T_a)e^{-kt}$. Meaning it would cool faster at first, but get slower over time, which is the opposite of your hypothesis. I'm not sure whether or not a more advanced model would have significantly different predicitons.

Yes In general they were quite good. On my floor I have junior treasurer and secretary Shame about Zsi-Zsi though.

I watched 4 episodes yesterday so I'm now all caught up oh and I watched an episode of snog, marry, avoid

GB: If you're stropping after last night I'm going to put a naartjiecitrus-fruit-of-indeterminate-species in your pigeon hole!

aAaaaargh. That is all.