We can build relationships with people so they want to cooperate with us, or we can bully them into compliance. Broadly speaking, these are the two basic approaches authority figures can take to elicit the people’s compliance with rules and expectations: Authoritative or authoritarian. As the father of a small child, a teacher with experience…
Month: July 2016
Length of a Tangent
I’ve seen variations of this one a few times, so I thought I’d give it a quick write-up. The simpler version is: Given two circles that are tangent and a line that is cotangent to them, what is the length of the segment between the points of tangency? To make things easier, the radii are…