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My third year thermodynamics course opened with a similar quip by the lecturer. Entropy is actually depressing. You can’t fight it. You can’t not fight it. It just wins.
Man, you humans are going to be really upset when you find the universal wall…
I mean uh…
Hey, how was the game last night amirite?
Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
What was Wenger thinking sending Walcott on that early?
Thing about Arsenal is they always try and walk it in
So… that’s why I never tidy up my room. I’m just too smart!
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…?
Apparently still alive at 85: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Goodstein
Don’t worry, he’s alive: His wiki page
My favorite class in grad school. I absolutely loved deriving the laws of thermodynamics from first principles based the random motion of atoms. It was beautiful.
Grad school? This is for 4y bachelor student
Bachelor student? I learned this in high school
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.”
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
Care to expand? Things like complexity theory and type theory, for example, have nothing to do with calculus
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
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.
Wouldn’t you also need to know physics in order to make a mechanical computer?
Not necessarily. We had the theory of mechanical computers well before both calculus and physics.
