Air resistance Memes

The infamous "assume a frictionless surface" strikes again! Physics textbooks love creating these bizarrely simplified scenarios where basic laws of nature just... don't apply. Sure, let's ignore air resistance, friction, and apparently gravity's selective application while we're at it. The person in the cart gets normal physics, but the poor soul hanging below? Nope, they're just dangling in theoretical physics purgatory. This is exactly why students think physics is disconnected from reality. Next problem: "Calculate the velocity of this wagon assuming the pool is filled with inviscid fluid and the child is a perfect sphere."

The frustration on Buzz Lightyear's face perfectly captures that moment when physics students realize their beautiful theoretical models crash into reality. For years, we solve problems assuming "negligible air resistance" to make the math work. Then real-world aerodynamics shows up uninvited to the calculation party and ruins everything! Suddenly those elegant parabolic trajectories become complex differential equations, and your spacecraft doesn't quite make it to infinity and beyond. The academic betrayal is real - no one warned us the atmosphere would be such a drag!

The eternal struggle of physics homework! That baby is flying away faster than your chances of solving that problem set due tomorrow. Physics textbooks love to say "ignore air resistance" but the moment they include it, your neat equations turn into differential nightmares. Suddenly your projectile motion requires calculus, your free-falling objects need drag coefficients, and your simple harmonic motion isn't so simple anymore. The baby knows what's up—floating blissfully in simplified physics land while you're down there desperately trying to account for real-world conditions!