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# - An Octothorpe Production 12/5/86 Author: The Mathematician	Approx Size:3k

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		  ?	 Physics Terms Made Easy	?
		  ?    Entered By The Mathematician	?
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		  ?	    (Mostly anonymous)		?
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Calculus of residues		       How to clean up a bathtub ring

Catoptric			       A feline eye

Coma				       Italian: A multi-toothed device for
				       re-arranging one's hair

Commutator			       A student who drives to school

Conic section			       Funny paper
Corona				       Officer who enquires into the manner
				       of violent death

Cosine				       The opposite of `Stop sign'

Cusp				       To use profane language

Exit pupil			       A retiring student

Flux				       Past participle of the verb 'to
				       flex'

Gram				       To review for examinations

Grand canonical ensemble	       Ecumenical council

Graph				       Principal item of a cow's diet

Ground state			       Coffee, before brewing

Harmonic function		       Concert

Hermitian operator		       Recluse surgeon

Humbug				       Noisy wiretap

Hypotenuse			       Animal like rhinoceros but with no
				       horn on nose

Len				       Singular of lens, specifically a
				       one-surface optical element

Marginal ray			       A ray of doubtful origin

Millimeter			       A bug like a centimeter but with
				       more legs

Normal solution 		       The wrong answer

Orifice 			       Headquarters or place of business

Paradox 			       Two Ph D's

Polygon 			       A dead parrot

Poynting vecotr 		       A redundant term; all vectors point

Spectra 			       A female ghost

Sphere				       A long, pointed weapon

Spin operator			       Owner of a ferris wheel

Statistical correlation 	       36-22-35

Torque				       Conversation

Ultraviolet catastrophe 	       Bad sunburn

Vortex				       Point of a mathematical figure
				       opposite the base

Watt				       Will you please repeat that remark?