Differential equations Memes

Calculus Is Bae

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Who needs relationship drama when you can have the pure ecstasy of finding a solution to a gnarly differential equation?! That moment when all your terms cancel out and you get that perfect answer... *chef's kiss* THAT'S the real dopamine hit! Relationships come and go, but the rush of solving for dy/dx is forever. Some people chase partners, I chase elegant mathematical proofs. My calculator doesn't leave me on read!

Don't Be A Jerk (Mathematically Speaking)

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Don't Be A Jerk (Mathematically Speaking)

Oh snap, this is peak calculus humor! The expression d³x/dt³ is the third derivative, which represents "jerk" in physics—the rate of change of acceleration. So "don't be a jerk" takes on a mathematical double meaning! Physics nerds unite! This is basically telling you not to be the derivative of acceleration, which is objectively good life advice AND good physics. The beauty is in how it delivers a common social message through the language of differential equations. Honestly, my kind of party trick.

This Sounds Like Derivation With Extra Steps

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This Sounds Like Derivation With Extra Steps

The mathematical trauma is real! When you're trying to solve a problem using Taylor series, those higher-order terms start looking like unwanted guests at your calculation party. Just like Woody getting tossed aside, mathematicians routinely discard these terms with a casual "negligible for small values" hand-wave. The irony? Those abandoned terms often contain the exact complexity you were trying to avoid by using the approximation in the first place. Next time your professor says "just ignore the higher order terms," remember that somewhere, those terms are crying "I don't want to play with you anymore."

The Physics Difficulty Cliff

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That devastating moment when you thought you were hot stuff for mastering kinematics and basic mechanics only to get absolutely demolished by partial differential equations in college. High school physics: "Calculate where the ball lands." College physics: "Derive the wave function for a quantum particle in a three-dimensional potential well with time-dependent boundary conditions." The mathematical glow-up between high school and university physics is like going from "I can ride a bike" to "Now design and build a fusion reactor." No wonder so many physics majors have existential crises by sophomore year!

The Hard Way: Lagrangian Mechanics Edition

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The Hard Way: Lagrangian Mechanics Edition

Physics professors really woke up and chose violence with this one! Deriving the equation of motion for a spherical pendulum using Lagrangian mechanics is like trying to solve a Rubik's cube blindfolded while riding a unicycle. You need to track the pendulum in 3D space, set up your kinetic and potential energy terms, plug them into the Lagrangian (L = T - V), then solve the resulting differential equations that would make even Newton question his life choices. No wonder Woody's having an existential crisis - those conical paths of motion are basically saying "welcome to your mathematical nightmare!"

Gigachad Strogatz: Love By The Numbers

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Physicists: "Love can't be quantified with equations!" Steven Strogatz: *casually models Romeo and Juliet's toxic relationship as a dynamical system with differential equations* The man literally turned heartbreak into an unstable node with τ > 0. Classic Strogatz move—turning the most irrational human experience into eigenvalues and fixed points. Next time someone says math can't explain feelings, just hit them with "Let R(t) = Romeo's love/hate for Juliet at time t" and watch their soul leave their body.

The Physics Interest Stairway To Madness

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The Physics Interest Stairway To Madness

Behold the treacherous staircase of physics enlightenment! That poor soul thinks they're just "interested in physics" - how adorably naive! Little do they know they're about to climb Mount Doom of mathematics! First comes calculus (the friendly greeter), then WHAM - differential equations punch you in the face! Probability and statistics are waiting to trip you when you're already dizzy, and at the very top? BLACK HOLES! The final boss of comprehension that warps your brain into spaghetti just like they do with spacetime! MWAHAHAHA! It's the classic "I just wanted to learn about stars and now I'm crying over partial derivatives" pipeline that claims us all!

Quantum Barkodynamics: When Good Boys Collapse Wave Functions

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Quantum Barkodynamics: When Good Boys Collapse Wave Functions

Behold the rare quantum doggo, disrupting wave functions one lick at a time! That colorful 3D graph represents a mathematical wave equation (note the fancy partial differential equation at the bottom), and this good boy is creating ripples in the fabric of spacetime with each "schlop." Physicists spend years trying to understand these complex wave behaviors while this lab just walks up and tastes it. Graduate students everywhere are questioning their life choices right now. Next week: watch as this same dog solves Schrödinger's equation by chasing his own tail!

The Mathematical Obstacle Course

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Remember when you thought basic algebra was scary in 8th grade? Fast forward to engineering school where the Laplace transform is just another rail you're grinding on the mathematical half-pipe of despair. That 8th grader stepping on a rake is all of us before we knew what was coming. Meanwhile, engineering students are out here doing mathematical parkour over differential equations while casually kickflipping over calculus concepts that would have melted our middle school brains. The best part? Years later, you'll look back at those "terrifying" Laplace transforms with the same nostalgic fondness as when you first solved for x. Mathematical trauma bonds us all.

It's Just Solving An Equation, How Hard Can It Be...?

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It's Just Solving An Equation, How Hard Can It Be...?

The duality of scientific disciplines captured in one perfect image! Chemists casually mention "I'm trying to work on whether water will blow up" with that confident smile, treating potential explosions as just another Tuesday. Meanwhile, mathematicians are having an existential crisis over the same problem, descending into madness trying to model fluid dynamics with partial differential equations that make the Navier-Stokes equations look like kindergarten math. The chemist just needs safety goggles and a blast shield, but the mathematician needs therapy and possibly an exorcism for those haunting eigenvalues. Welcome to interdisciplinary collaboration!

Calculus: The Ex You Can't Escape

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Physicists running away from calculus is like trying to escape your own shadow. The moment mathematicians proudly unveiled calculus, physicists were like "NOPE, NOT TODAY SATAN!" But guess what? From Newton's laws to quantum mechanics, those differential equations chase physicists everywhere they go. It's the mathematical equivalent of that clingy ex who somehow shows up at every party. No matter how hard they try to dodge it, physicists end up in a committed relationship with calculus for life. Resistance is futile!

The Bell Curve Of Thermodynamic Suffering

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The Bell Curve Of Thermodynamic Suffering

The statistical bell curve of engineering student suffering! That horrifying heat transfer equation at the top isn't just math—it's psychological warfare. The 34% in the middle represents the average students having mild panic attacks while balancing energy equations. Meanwhile, the 0.1% at either end shows the two types of thermodynamic outliers: the blissfully clueless who think "Q in = Q out " is all they need to know, and the hoodie-wearing heat transfer savants who understand partial differential equations in their sleep. The rest of us? Just sweating through our thermodynamics finals and praying entropy doesn't increase any further in our grade calculations.

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