It's Mathemagical!

[melissagay]

Ok, I normally don't post about my dreams, but this one left a surreal taste in my mouth that has lasted all day. (If you're wondering what surrealism tastes like, a cup of fur.)

It was one of those cramming-for-a-test dreams where you've missed half the classes, and this one was a Calculus/physics final.

Items of interest:

1) Apparently my

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far away

[spryt]

Why oh why are you so far away? I keep telling people around here how much I'm enjoying all the math and science now that I'm back in school. People look at me as if I'm from some strange place, then I tell them I want to teach Chemistry to high school kids. I'm quickly frightening people I was thought might like me.

Re: far away

[melissagay]

Ohmygoodness!!!!!! I LOVE Chemistry! How awesome-- you rule!!!

I took loads of Chem in my biology days-- enough for a minor, really. I loved Quantitative Analysis best of all. My favorite math class was Calc 2. What's your fave so far?

Math and science are awesome-- they exercise different parts of your brain than literature, etc. Although interestingly enough, the more I think about math, the more painting I want to do, so there may be a connection there, in my nerdy ol' brain, anyway.

[sunshinedew]

I completely get the desire for math...just not calculus. :) Also ...you ordered a physics book? Sometimes I'm not sure I am geek enough for this group. Then I remember I am the other kind of geek.

[melissagay]

HA! You are SO geek enough! Most people can't HANDLE your geek! Your geekitude is not for the faint of heart! You must be THIS tall to go on your geek ride! ...Er, I think I'll stop there. :)

[vaklam]

Where do I get tickets for the geek ride?

OK, now I'd better stop there.

[melissagay]

WARNING: Do not go on this geek ride if you are pregnant, prone to seizures, or have a heart condition!!!

I just can't leave it alone, can I? :D

[dmarley]

In high school, our physics teacher gave us the "girl drops a ball off the roof" problem. Only his was "A baby falls off a roof. How fast does Supperman [sic] have to fly to save it?"

[melissagay]

Ok, that is twisted. What if you get the wrong answer? Does the baby fall to its doom? Does it matter if the baby is a mutant baby or a pure-strain human? Is the baby frictionless, or do we count the drag from its blanket? What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen baby???????

I'll never forget Dr. F(X) Hart and his orbital TARDIS questions. :)

[jinjifore]

As I recall, we were worried about when, exactly, the baby could be counted as saved. If Supperman reached the baby at the same moment that the baby reached the ground, did that count? Could we assume that Supperman was able to put his hands under the baby just before impact? And that the baby wouldn't be affect by deceleration? And that Supperman, did, in fact, have superpowers?

Now that I think about it, that particular teacher only taught physics for that one year....

[vaklam]

Supperman! Able to leap tall place settings in a single bound!

[sanba38]

{Rolls eyes}

C squared = (A squared + B squared) - 2*A*B*cosC

But if the triangle has a hypotenuse, then it's a right triangle! You know good and well you don't need to use cosine at all in that situation. Just use the Pythagorean theorem!

C squared = A squared + B squared

[melissagay]

Yeah, but did you come up with that while *conscious*? Uh-huh, thought so. :)

(Actually, I misspoke when I said hypotenuse-- it was just the C side.)

[sojoy]

I like that word "mathemagical" very much.