KSP saved my exam

[Spyritdragon]

Hey everyone,

A few weeks ago, i had my physics exam. Now, i reasonably like physics, mostly orbital physics, but i tend to be more involved with the complex ones, and studying basic statics and mechanics gets me bored reasonably quickly.

On this exam, i was faced with a horrible problem: I had forgotten the formula for angular accelleration. Yes, the very important one, the one to calculate the accelleration acting on a body rotating at a specific angular/normal velocity. I had a few vague ideas, but nothing concrete enough to solve the exercise.

I thought i couldn't solve the exercise, but then, i remembered something. I play this very fun game called KSP.

I wrote down all my potential formulas. Then i thought. I knew the radius of Kerbin. I knew that i'd need my velocity somwhere around 2200 m/s to orbit in a 100 by 100 altitude orbit. I knew the approximate acceleration due to gravity on Kerbin. I came out with v^2/r .

I got 10/20.

KSP likely saved my exam.

Thank you, Squad

[Dr. Ivo Robotnik]

Oh my god something like taht happened to me when i was playing spore xD. We were tackling Darwin in nature and few days afterwards we had an exeam of course i didnt knew a thing >.< but then THANKs to spore it came to me: "a creature changes its form to survive better in the enviromeent" (if you know what i mean it is hard to translate from my laungage) Thanks to spore i got 20/30 so games dont kill your brain as much as people think

[Galacticruler]

Oh my god something like taht happened to me when i was playing spore xD. We were tackling Darwin in nature and few days afterwards we had an exeam of course i didnt knew a thing >.< but then THANKs to spore it came to me: "a creature changes its form to survive better in the enviromeent" (if you know what i mean it is hard to translate from my laungage) Thanks to spore i got 20/30 so games dont kill your brain as much as people think

*cringe*Cute spore? by EA?

Science spore would have worked better.

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Nothing to say.

[Dr. Ivo Robotnik]

YES cute spore >_< crazy

[SunJumper]

KSP was the reason I got 75% in my mid-sem exam last year (there was a comprehension question about the space shuttle).