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One opening line that’s always stuck with me is:
“The doctor said I was a paranoid schizophrenic. Well, he didn’t actually say it, but we knew he was thinking it.”
So… is Goldstein still around or did he…?
Don’t worry, he’s alive: His wiki page
I don’t know. I like Griffith’s Quantum Mechanics which opens saying if you think you’re starting to understand this stuff, you really haven’t.
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Because you’re touching them with your eyes
Weed out the riff-raff who can’t hack it
id want to kill myself too. just from the very little i know from computer stuff, imagine doing an entire semester
Physics ≠ Computer Science
Can’t have computer science without physics.
I’m not entirely sure of that. You can’t have comp sci without algebra and potentially calculus. I could see a society that developed all three fields before they codified Physics
How do you have computer science without calculus? Calculus is literally necessary for computer science, otherwise it’d just be like… shitty statistics with a little programming
It would be inelegant as all fuck, but you could get away with just algebra, there are comp sci courses that only need algebra as the foundation.
as far as i can tell, the ones that do that are usually just programming courses with “computer science” slapped onto the title. but i havent exactly gone to many colleges so i don’t have the experience to say so.
Do you really think people could make programmable microchips and processing units before they figured out physics?
No, but mechanical computers existed before microchips. They just weren’t terribly useful
Once I get my mechanical computer to run crysis we’ll see who’s laughing.
What kind of argumentation is this? Are we talking about mechanical engineering or computer science? Please don’t bent reality the way it fits your shape.
This is beautiful and I must study this subject now.
You know; so I have an excuse.
I dunno, I usually open a textbook by turning over the front cover 🥁
Why do we have a 🌫️ emoji instead of a cymbal? It would compliment the drum emoji so well.
Statistical mechanics is so fucking brutal \m/
…and then we take the partial derivative of the log of this infinite sum wrt molar volume to find that–
- Why?
Why what?
- helplessly gestures at the whiteboard
Oh, yeah, it’s so the math works out later! Anyway, for small Θ, the derivative has a nice closed form that we can Tailor expand in f-
Yeah lol, lots of physics and math was invented by multidisciplinary geniuses who saw equations that seemed to have no answer and said “oh yeah, this looks like a problem from biology that I’ve seen solved with this bit of fluid mechanics, and that problem can be solved with this complex trick from differential calculus. And you know, after we do that the whole system is starting to look like a circuit that uses properties from thermodynamics…”
Then your teacher and the textbook throws it on a white board and says “some smart dude figured out this was the way to solve this problem. It looks like this and it boils down to this equation. Don’t ask questions.”
There’s a mechanics textbook called “there once was a classical theory” and it opens with:
There once was a classical theory Of which quantum disciples were leery. They said, “Why spend so long On a theory that’s wrong?” Well, it works for your everyday query!
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Thanks Thiccle Rick
