have you seen these equations before?

[pokerfan]

(I once had the t-shirt.)

Discuss...

[eppur_se_muova]

1. And God said #include<Maxwells.eqns>

and there was light.

[pokerfan]

2. How'd you know?

what my t-shirt said?

:rofl: :rofl:

[eppur_se_muova]

3. Those T-shirts were popular at MIT some moons ago (probably still are)...

sort of the equivalent of "I survived Physics 8.03", but more obscure, as is the local custom.

[KitchenWitch]

4. Have you seen this one? Is it true?

[BlooInBloo]

5. Worse than false - meaningless at literally stated....

... It's probably one of a group of equations, talking about a transformation of some type (laplace, etc.)

[KitchenWitch]

6. Read it like it is words and not just mathematical symbols.

[BlooInBloo]

8. ooooooooo! LOLOL!

[WinkyDink]

13. Have. No. Clue.

[KitchenWitch]

14. ...

S E X = F U N

[UrbScotty]

17. For a minute I thought the N was another X (nt)

[WinkyDink]

25. I got #6. I DON'T get the OP!

[liontamer]

12. this is why other scientists make fun of physicists and mathematicians

:)

[BlooInBloo]

16. (shrug) I was thinking the poster botched copying a chain rule or other transform set....

... Not sure if that's geekier than the actual joke or not.

[BlooInBloo]

7. self-delete - wrong branch

[KitchenWitch]

9. Freshman calculus geek joke!

Like those of us in freshman calc were getting any!

:rofl:

[pokerfan]

11. My favorite engineer joke

A mathematician, a physicist, and an engineer were all given a red rubber ball and told to find the volume.

The mathematician carefully measured the diameter and evaluated a triple integral.

The physicist filled a beaker with water, put the ball in the water, and measured the total displacement.

The engineer looked up the make and model in his red-rubber-ball book.

[Eagle_Eye]

19. Another

A mathematician, a physicist, and an engineer were all on top of a tall building with an expensive table clock. They all mused at how long it would take for the clock to travel from the roof of the building to the ground.

The mathematician drew up beautiful calculus equations and solved the integrals and announced the clock would hit the ground in 2.48 seconds.

The physicist used the correct acceleration equations and even included the air density in the drag coefficient and announced the clock would hit the ground in 2.49 seconds.

The engineer set the clock to straight up 12:00.00 and threw it off the roof. After examining the dial of the destroyed clock, the engineer announced it would take about two and half seconds.

[pokerfan]

21. Oh, it is on like Donkey Kong!

Engineering jokes.....


An almost certainly apocryphal tale:

The following concerns a question in a physics degree exam at the University of Copenhagen:

"Describe how to determine the height of a skyscraper with a barometer."

One student replied:

"You tie a long piece of string to the neck of the barometer, then lower the barometer from the roof of the skyscraper to the ground. The length of the string plus the length of the barometer will equal the height of the building."

This highly original answer so incensed the examiner that the student was failed immediately. He appealed on the grounds that his answer was indisputably correct, and the university appointed an independent arbiter to decide the case.

The arbiter judged that the answer was indeed correct, but did not display any noticeable knowledge of physics.

To resolve the problem it was decided to call the student in and allow him six minutes in which to provide a verbal answer which showed at least a minimal familiarity with the basic principles of physics.

For five minutes the student sat in silence, forehead creased in thought. The arbiter reminded him that time was running out, to which the student replied that he had several extremely relevant answers, but couldn't make up his mind which to use.

On being advised to hurry up the student replied as follows:

"Firstly, you could take the barometer up to the roof of the skyscraper, drop it over the edge, and measure the time it takes to reach the ground. The height of the building can then be worked out from the formula H =0.5g x t squared. But bad luck on the barometer.

Or if the sun is shining you could measure the height of the barometer, then set it on end and measure the length of its shadow. Then you measure the length of the skyscraper's shadow, and thereafter it is a simple matter of proportional arithmetic to work out the height of the skyscraper.

"But if you wanted to be highly scientific about it, you could tie a short piece of string to the barometer and swing it like a pendulum, first at ground level and then on the roof of the skyscraper. The height is worked out by the difference in the gravitational restoring force T = 2 pi sqrroot (l / g).

"Or if the skyscraper has an outside emergency staircase, it would be easier to walk up it and mark off the height of the skyscraper in barometer lengths, then add them up.

"If you merely wanted to be boring and orthodox about it, of course, you could use the barometer to measure the air pressure on the roof of the skyscraper and on the ground, and convert the difference in millibars into feet to give the height of the building.

But since we are constantly being exhorted to exercise independence of mind and apply scientific methods, undoubtedly the best way would be to knock on
the janitor's door and say to him 'If you would like a nice new barometer, I will give you this one if you tell me the height of this skyscraper'."

- The student was Niels Bohr, the only Dane to win the Nobel Prize for Physics

[Dr. Strange]

23. An engineering joke...and a statistician joke

The Engineer Joke

A freshman noticed that the first few odd integers past one were prime. He wondered if this was always the case. So he asked a mathematician. The mathematician says, "Well, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, but 9 is not a prime. So, no, not every odd integer bigger than one is a prime."

Not quite comfortable with the answer, he asked a physicist. The physicist replied, "Well, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is not a prime (but that's probably due to round off error)...I believe the answer is yes, they are all prime."

Confused by the two contradictory answers, he asked an engineer. The engineer replies, "Well, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is prime, ..."


The Statistician Joke

A mathematician, a physicist, and a statistician go hunting. They spot a deer, and the mathematician decides to take the first shot. It misses two feet to the left.

The physicist says, "You didn't take into account the rotation of the earth. Let me try." The physicist's shot misses two feet to the right.

The statistician yells, "Cool! Two bull-eyes!"

[pokerfan]

24. LOL!

A priest, a doctor, and an engineer were waiting one morning for a particularly slow group of golfers.

Engineer: What's with these guys? We must have been waiting for 15 minutes!

Doctor: I don't know but I've never seen such ineptitude!

Priest: Hey, here comes the greenskeeper. Let's have a word with him.

Priest: Hi George. Say George, what's with that group ahead of us? They're rather slow aren't they?

George: Oh yes. That's a group of blind fire fighters. They lost their sight while saving our club house last year. So we let them play here anytime free of charge!

(silence)

Priest: That's so sad. I think I will say a special prayer for them tonight.

Doctor: Good idea. And I'm going to contact my ophthalmologist buddy and see if there's anything he can do for them.

Engineer: Why can't these guys play at night?

[Monk06]

18. Hey I was married during freshman calc. So I was getting laid at least once a month.

I also got a Sympathy F**k after midterms.

(My ex was very caring that way).

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[pokerfan]

10. Had that t-shirt too

But what would a bunch of engineers know about that subject? Actually things turned around for me romantically my Junior year. Late bloomer.

[RetroLounge]

22. I had that T shirt in College!

LOL

RL

[Q3JR4]

15. Yep.

I have a T-shirt that has that info on it with the "there was light" statement.

I also have a shirt that says "Classically Trained" and I have my degree in physics...

[Rabrrrrrr]

20. Ah, the ol' "And God said... and there was light!" t-shirts

Rather a lot of them in engineering college.

:rofl: