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#1 2007-03-03 11:39:55

justlookingforthemoment
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Brilliant mathematical minds

Received some pictures in a email from a friend:

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I can't remember if anyone has already posted these here ... and don't have time to crawl through the archives.

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#2 2007-03-03 12:37:37

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Re: Brilliant mathematical minds

Those are great! roflol

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#3 2007-03-03 13:00:26

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Re: Brilliant mathematical minds

Lovely! The "six" one is somewhere, but the others are new to me.


"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..."  - Leon M. Lederman

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#4 2007-03-03 13:41:41

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#5 2007-03-03 13:54:25

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Re: Brilliant mathematical minds

Actually, I am intrigued by this question in the first paper itself:

What’s the definition “coming to rest” anyway? Doesn’t it mean that the object no longer continues to move? tongue Or is this a question on the English language rather than physics? dizzy

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#6 2007-03-03 14:17:38

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I always thought rest meant that the net force on the object was 0.


"In the real world, this would be a problem.  But in mathematics, we can just define a place where this problem doesn't exist.  So we'll go ahead and do that now..."

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#7 2007-03-03 15:26:16

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That would just mean that the object isn't accelerating. wink

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#8 2007-03-03 16:53:24

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I think coming to rest just means that the velocity at a certain time is 0.
If there is a net force on the object then the rest will only be instantaneous, but it will be rest nonetheless.

I like how the answer in Toast's third picture got a mark. smile


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It wanted to be normal.

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#9 2007-03-03 18:02:56

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That’s what I understand by coming to rest – the velocity becomes 0.

When there’s no net force, the acceleration is 0 but the velocity doesn’t have to be 0.

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#10 2007-03-03 18:23:57

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I'm with the student in the last image of Toast's post. (S)he answered the question as asked. It absolutely infuriates me when teachers ask things in such an ambiguous way that you have no idea what to do.

My other favorite is "discuss"--"Discuss the function f...". The only sensible response is, "What about it do you want to know?" But you can't very well put that if you expect points on the assignment.

Yes, I'm bitter. sad


El que pega primero pega dos veces.

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#11 2007-03-03 19:49:52

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Those are very good, nice finds.

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#12 2007-03-05 03:32:23

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cool, dev wat happened to your avatar


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#13 2007-03-05 04:51:28

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Ehm, you're colourblind, nothing happened.

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#14 2007-03-05 05:06:52

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yeah its a gold moon now it was a normal moon now its a gold one.... cool


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#15 2007-03-05 05:08:48

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If you pay more attention, it will come to your attention that it is not in fact a moon, but your incorrect judgement.

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#16 2007-03-05 05:32:19

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its a amber earth


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#17 2007-03-05 16:26:36

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Re: Brilliant mathematical minds

Goodones,
Justlookingforthemoment and Toast!
As Admin stated, the six is a bit too familiar, but certinaly not the others smile


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#18 2007-03-13 06:06:21

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and as for me i don't know any of them


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#19 2007-03-14 04:20:51

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Best jokes ever. thanx.


I see clearly now, the universe have the black dots, Thus I am on my way of inventing this remedy...

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#20 2007-03-14 04:23:36

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welcome big_smile


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#21 2007-03-14 19:24:21

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Re: Brilliant mathematical minds

Heh ... why did you say 'welcome'? You even said yourself:

You even said yourself wrote:

and as for me i don't know any of them

big_smile

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#22 2007-03-14 19:34:21

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yeah but that wasn't me that was You even said yourself said that


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#23 2007-03-23 04:59:38

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nice ones.I like the expand one.


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#24 2007-03-23 05:06:24

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lightning wrote:

yeah but that wasn't me that was You even said yourself said that

That's not amusing, the joke has been used by many people, including me, over a hundred times now...

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#25 2007-03-23 06:18:40

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but i didn't say it though that guy is there who is he....... i'm getting curious


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