It was the Diwali of 2015 and I was in the final year of my engineering college.
Everyone in my batch was very excited to celebrate this festival of lights as this was going to be our last Diwali in college.
The college had been decorated with streamers of lights…daytime was dedicated to competitions like Rangoli making, Claypot making (I won it. Pic below) and night-time to a huge show of crackers in the Ovals ground (the biggest playground of our college).
All my hostelmates had come up with ideas to decorate the area outside their rooms (pic below). Now, I was considered one of the luckiest persons in my hostel as my room was right in front of the terrace. Everytime a person got a job, parties used to occur on this very terrace and I ended up in getting invited!
Anyways coming back to the main point, I wanted to do something different from just having candles placed in front of my room. On racking my brains, I got reminded of a cheap disco light which I had bought a couple of weeks ago during the festival of Dussehra. As it was an inexpensive roadside product, there was nothing present in the product to attach it to the wall and hence it seemed like it couldn’t be used. I felt that I had to satisfy with the plan of candles only.
But suddenly it crossed my mind – what if this was the very time when life was testing my physics skills? I mean, what is the use of studying something if you can’t even apply it to your real life!
So I started to think about the solution (pic below) and I succeeded! It was a great feeling of accomplishment which I hadn’t gotten even in any Physics exam…lol. The solution was something like this –
I opened the heavy glass vent (above the door) by pulling it with a hanger which had a metallic lock attached to it at its end to act as the dead weight. Then I inserted the disco light bulb in the vent, tying it to the hanger with my neighbour’s petticoat string, and voila!
I ended up in lighting the entire wing and transforming the terrace into a makeshift version of a DJ floor for Diwali 
When the need for equation of moment and equilibrium of forces was used in real life 
Equilibrium of forces was regarding the dead weight of the metallic lock;
Concept of moment (r x F) was used to rotate the glass vent. Here r was the distance between the vent & lock, F was the dead weight of the lock.
It was the Diwali of 2015 and I was in the final year of my engineering college. Everyone in my batch was very excited to celebrate this festival of lights as this was going to be our last Diwali in college.
The college had been decorated with streamers of lights...daytime was dedicated to competitions like Rangoli making, Claypot making (I won it. Pic below) and night-time to a huge show of crackers in the Ovals ground (the biggest playground of our college).
All my hostelmates had come up with ideas to decorate the area outside their rooms (pic below). Now, I was considered one of the luckiest persons in my hostel as my room was right in front of the terrace. Everytime a person got a job, parties used to occur on this very terrace and I ended up in getting invited!
Anyways coming back to the main point, I wanted to do something different from just having candles placed in front of my room. On racking my brains, I got reminded of a cheap disco light which I had bought a couple of weeks ago during the festival of Dussehra. As it was an inexpensive roadside product, there was nothing present in the product to attach it to the wall and hence it seemed like it couldn't be used. I felt that I had to satisfy with the plan of candles only.
But suddenly it crossed my mind - what if this was the very time when life was testing my physics skills? I mean, what is the use of studying something if you can't even apply it to your real life!
So I started to think about the solution (pic below) and I succeeded! It was a great feeling of accomplishment which I hadn't gotten even in any Physics exam...lol. The solution was something like this -
I opened the heavy glass vent (above the door) by pulling it with a hanger which had a metallic lock attached to it at its end to act as the dead weight. Then I inserted the disco light bulb in the vent, tying it to the hanger with my neighbour's petticoat string, and voila!
I ended up in lighting the entire wing and transforming the terrace into a makeshift version of a DJ floor for Diwali
When the need for equation of moment and equilibrium of forces was used in real life
It was the Diwali of 2015 and I was in the final year of my engineering college. Everyone in my batch was very excited to celebrate this festival of lights as this was going to be our last Diwali in college.
The college had been decorated with streamers of lights...daytime was dedicated to competitions like Rangoli making, Claypot making (I won it. Pic below) and night-time to a huge show of crackers in the Ovals ground (the biggest playground of our college).
All my hostelmates had come up with ideas to decorate the area outside their rooms (pic below). Now, I was considered one of the luckiest persons in my hostel as my room was right in front of the terrace. Everytime a person got a job, parties used to occur on this very terrace and I ended up in getting invited!
Anyways coming back to the main point, I wanted to do something different from just having candles placed in front of my room. On racking my brains, I got reminded of a cheap disco light which I had bought a couple of weeks ago during the festival of Dussehra. As it was an inexpensive roadside product, there was nothing present in the product to attach it to the wall and hence it seemed like it couldn't be used. I felt that I had to satisfy with the plan of candles only.
But suddenly it crossed my mind - what if this was the very time when life was testing my physics skills? I mean, what is the use of studying something if you can't even apply it to your real life!
So I started to think about the solution (pic below) and I succeeded! It was a great feeling of accomplishment which I hadn't gotten even in any Physics exam...lol. The solution was something like this -
I opened the heavy glass vent (above the door) by pulling it with a hanger which had a metallic lock attached to it at its end to act as the dead weight. Then I inserted the disco light bulb in the vent, tying it to the hanger with my neighbour's petticoat string, and voila!
I ended up in lighting the entire wing and transforming the terrace into a makeshift version of a DJ floor for Diwali
When the need for equation of moment and equilibrium of forces was used in real life
The college had been decorated with streamers of lights...daytime was dedicated to competitions like Rangoli making, Claypot making (I won it. Pic below) and night-time to a huge show of crackers in the Ovals ground (the biggest playground of our college).
All my hostelmates had come up with ideas to decorate the area outside their rooms (pic below). Now, I was considered one of the luckiest persons in my hostel as my room was right in front of the terrace. Everytime a person got a job, parties used to occur on this very terrace and I ended up in getting invited!
Anyways coming back to the main point, I wanted to do something different from just having candles placed in front of my room. On racking my brains, I got reminded of a cheap disco light which I had bought a couple of weeks ago during the festival of Dussehra. As it was an inexpensive roadside product, there was nothing present in the product to attach it to the wall and hence it seemed like it couldn't be used. I felt that I had to satisfy with the plan of candles only.
But suddenly it crossed my mind - what if this was the very time when life was testing my physics skills? I mean, what is the use of studying something if you can't even apply it to your real life!
So I started to think about the solution (pic below) and I succeeded! It was a great feeling of accomplishment which I hadn't gotten even in any Physics exam...lol. The solution was something like this -
I opened the heavy glass vent (above the door) by pulling it with a hanger which had a metallic lock attached to it at its end to act as the dead weight. Then I inserted the disco light bulb in the vent, tying it to the hanger with my neighbour's petticoat string, and voila!
I ended up in lighting the entire wing and transforming the terrace into a makeshift version of a DJ floor for DiwaliWhen the need for equation of moment and equilibrium of forces was used in real life
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Equilibrium of forces was regarding the dead weight of the metallic lock;
Concept of moment (r x F) was used to rotate the glass vent. Here r was the distance between the vent & lock, F was the dead weight of the lock.