I have to redo this in my head about once a year or I forget exactly how it works. Fortunately the transformation foe Kelvin is much easier to remember. I'm going to write this out using a visual metaphor. For the metaphor I'm imagining a rectangular strip of paper (the length and width don't matter).

• When he was deriving his temperature scale, ( Read more... )

Amy is taking physics this semester, and she has been given leave to ask me questions about it when needed. Apparently they are studying the principles of energy and momentum conservation (i.e., collisions, for which you have to consider both types of conservation in general to make your calculations), though I doubt the professor has explained it ( Read more... )

[Cause it's not like she wrote it, but it is funny.]
So the polynomial p and the exponential function are at a party. The polynomial is having great fun, dancing, flirting with the girls, but the exponential is sitting in the corner sulking, not talking to anybody ( Read more... )

integral (1/cabin) d(cabin) = natural log cabin

(Yes, I know exactly who will like this one. But it's for the geek in all of us, not just you chica :-). Also, technically speaking it would be natural log ( abs(cabin) ), but that would kinda kill the humor, no? )

Joel Gilmore's !PI song. (Via Mixed States.)

Math pr0n.
And more.
(Thanks to eponis for pointing this out.)

( Another quiz )

What do you call the ratio of the circumference of an igloo to the diameter of the igloo? Eskimo pi.

Eight nickels are worth two paradigms.

How are we supposed to indulge in these goodies as a group? (I know, I know, all y'all plan to leave and ignore the mountain of work that will ahve piled up by then. As if that's a good idea or something.)