Oh my god...
I'm the hugest nerd.
I love physics.
So we're in class and going over units and dimensions (dear god is this part boring... but sadly necessary...)
and he puts up the exponential growth/decay formula.
A=be^(wt)
A=final population
b=initial pop
e=that exponential dohicky thingy
w=something
t=the duration of time
anyway.
(wt) is either positive or negative depending on if you're doing growth or decay (respectively)
-do I sound like your math instructor yet?-
well he picks negative. why?
because then we can deal with smaller number obviously if something is getting smaller then we'll have less difficult math to do. (since we were solving for b). smaller numbers=less people. obviously we're killing people off here indiscriminately. Isn't that awesome?
my theory: physicists are the most morbid, sinister, cold-hearted bastards in the universe (hence why i fit in)
as i sip at my soup-at-hand (master culinary artist that i am) i remember my high school physics instructor Mr. Aylward (prounounce owl-word, and this man was/still is my god) going over a problem as follows:
"now after we drop the textbook on the student the potential energy of the book is less than when we were holding it, obviously because the student has absorbed that energy in a skull-splitting crash"
How fucking awesome is that?
pelting kids with snowballs, having cars crash into each other, people falling, light rays blinding people, sound splitting ear drums... ah man... those were the days...
but i digress.
as you can see- phsyics is phucking awesome.
and i'm totally supposed to be here.
another thing that my current instructor talked about was that physics wasn't "looking for the absolute truth but the how of the universe and to try and describe it with theories and such"
combine this with my rampant thirst for writing and we have-
me, the ultimate human...
(insert evil laughter)
and there we have it.
I am one huge nerd.
Take it easy all,
That oh-so-suave physics guy,
MogMagus
I'm the hugest nerd.
I love physics.
So we're in class and going over units and dimensions (dear god is this part boring... but sadly necessary...)
and he puts up the exponential growth/decay formula.
A=be^(wt)
A=final population
b=initial pop
e=that exponential dohicky thingy
w=something
t=the duration of time
anyway.
(wt) is either positive or negative depending on if you're doing growth or decay (respectively)
-do I sound like your math instructor yet?-
well he picks negative. why?
because then we can deal with smaller number obviously if something is getting smaller then we'll have less difficult math to do. (since we were solving for b). smaller numbers=less people. obviously we're killing people off here indiscriminately. Isn't that awesome?
my theory: physicists are the most morbid, sinister, cold-hearted bastards in the universe (hence why i fit in)
as i sip at my soup-at-hand (master culinary artist that i am) i remember my high school physics instructor Mr. Aylward (prounounce owl-word, and this man was/still is my god) going over a problem as follows:
"now after we drop the textbook on the student the potential energy of the book is less than when we were holding it, obviously because the student has absorbed that energy in a skull-splitting crash"
How fucking awesome is that?
pelting kids with snowballs, having cars crash into each other, people falling, light rays blinding people, sound splitting ear drums... ah man... those were the days...
but i digress.
as you can see- phsyics is phucking awesome.
and i'm totally supposed to be here.
another thing that my current instructor talked about was that physics wasn't "looking for the absolute truth but the how of the universe and to try and describe it with theories and such"
combine this with my rampant thirst for writing and we have-
me, the ultimate human...
(insert evil laughter)
and there we have it.
I am one huge nerd.
Take it easy all,
That oh-so-suave physics guy,
MogMagus
i'm glad you're enjoying physics. it's awesome when people can do what they love.