"THE EXAM" "Did you ring the bell?" "Yes..." "Excuse me, Does Prof. Krajewski live here?" "Push the door, please." "Good afternoon." "Do you have an appointment?" "I'm here on recommendation of Mrs Ebert." "Oh, of Janeczka!" "This way, please." "Would you sit down?" "I'll read it now, if you don't mind." "Janeczka writes that you want something from my husband." "I'll wake him up then, shall I?" "Oh, no..." "I will come later." "Or maybe you will wait a moment?" "He will be up soon." "And I will make some tea." "Aren't you hungry?" "No, thank you very much." "Hallo?" "Yes?" "Wait a moment, I'll call him." "Karol!" "Do you here me?" "Hurry up!" "Hurry up, it's from Copenhagen." "Hallo?" " Good afternoon." " Good afternoon." "Karol, the gentleman is here to see us." "He brought a letter from Janeczka." " Krajewski." " Dzisiewicz." "I have just made the tea." "Will you have some with us?" "Yes, I'd love some." " Please sit down." " Thank you." "Thank you, I don't sweeten my tea." "You were Janeczka's escort at Zbyszek's wedding, weren't you?" "You got mixed up, Karol." "Janeczka wasn't at the wedding." "You must confuse her with Prof. Zawistowski's wife." " And that's not Janeczka?" " No." "Dorota." "Oh, I'm sorry." "You seem somehow familiar." "I've seen you before, haven't I?" "Yes..." "I will leave you two now." "Karol, Janeczka asks you to help that gentleman." "He is a friend of Janeczka's daughter." "And although she didn't write it explicitly" "I think it's more than friendship, isn't it?" "And how did you meet each other?" "On New Year's Eve." "In the mountains, this year." "It's not a long time ago." "Do you have her photo?" "No." "That's a pity." "I was carrying my girlfriend's photo with me all the time." " And now, do you still have it?" " Yes, I do." "And are you sure it's me on the photo?" "Ok, let's be serious now." "How can I help you?" "You see, Professor, I..." "study at the University of Technology, and I missed your exam." "And why did you miss it?" "It was such an unhappy coincidence..." "I was ill during the end-of-term exams." "Something with lungs." "And nerves..." "To cut a long story short:" "my situation is hopeless now." "So I want to ask you... to make an exception and exam me now." "It's out of the question." "But... if I fail the exam I'll find myself in a really tragic situation." "All my life plans..." "Please understand." "Go to the dean, not to me." "And you shouldn't come here." "University is the right place." "I'm terribly sorry, I would never dare to come here if I had any other option." "I can't help it." "There are equal rights for everyone." "You should have taken that exam in time." "You can always repeat the year." "00:07:59,440 -- 00:08:00,500 You did, didn't you?" "If I won't pass it now, it's over." "You can only blame yourself." "But I was ill!" "Last year you were also ill?" "Did you talk to the dean?" "Yes, he said that all depends on you now." "Helenka, take this company away!" "All right." "Let's say I will exam you." "Then what?" "The dean promised me conditional completion of the third semester." "Are you prepered?" " I was studying." " I'm not asking what you were doing but if you are prepered." " I think I am." " You think?" "If you are not sure why you bother me?" "Follow me." "Give me your student's book." "Take a seat." "I warn you my questions will be malicious because you are insolent." "I'm not kidding." "A cart with a water container is placed on the smooth surface..." "No, it's too easy." "The angle of the slope is alpha." "The circle cross-section object is going down the slope." "Derive the formula for the rolling down time." "The object with R radius." "What is it?" "The sphere or the cylinder." "You've got 10 minutes." "Oh, yes." "You may not remember the moment of inertia formula." "Go on." "You're ready, I see." " Yes." " How did you derive it?" "So..." "This one I took from the distance formula in uniformly accelerated motion." "This..." "Moment of inertia, angular acceleration... gives a radius..." "Friction, it's obvious." "This is formula that indicates a relation between acceleration in circular motion and in translation." "And this is the third law..." "Sorry, the second law of motion." "So I used the given formula..." "Switched..." "Replaced... and..." "Yes." "But looking at what you wrote... it should be plus here, not minus." "Are you sure?" "Maybe it's plus after all?" "Make up your mind, plus or minus." "There is a printing error in the key and you were not allowed to look here." "If you weren't cheating, you would derive it correctly." "It will be something between "butterfly" and "cadet"" "Are you a boatbuilder?" "No, a sailor." "What is your rank?" " Helmsman." " Well, that's something." "Where have you been sailing?" "Shetland was my farthest destination." "I've sailed the whole Baltic Sea." "And the North Sea also." "Now I try to arrange Adriatic Sea." "But it's too soon to say for sure." "This is my own construction." "Mast goes through over here... before the centre of gravity." "I'll show you." "Hold it." "How old are you?" "23." "When I was your age" "I already had the ideas of my most important works." "I dreamed about sailing." "I don't know but I think that..." "I wasn't talking to you." "Professor..." "Give me one more chance." "All right." "We will play coin flipping, okay?" "You know that any exam is partly a lottery." "And you rely on your luck, don't you?" "If you win, you'll pass the exam." "So?" "Heads or tails?" "Heads." "And what is it?" "I can't see without my glasses." "Tails." "And what have you chosen?" "Heads." "You lost then." "You trusted to chance and the fortune didn't smile on you." "You have to take it like a man." "Professor, what will happen now?" "I don't know." "You will take the next bus to the city centre." " You're not being serious, are you?" " What do you mean?" "Give me the passing mark, please." "I'd like to say goodbye." "A sense of dignity finally, I see." "If only you could realize that it's inseparable from honesty and if you could understand that the youth you impose on me is not any value itself and without anything else is just stupid and pathetic." "maybe then there would be hope that in the future you'll be a man not only biologically." "Did you understand any of this?" "Yes." "Don't forget to say goodbay to my wife." "You forgot your student's book." "Damn it!" "Have you lost your mind?" "Buy yourself a trumpet to play on it!" "Moron!" "Idiot."