Fleming Memes

The eternal dance of the right-hand rule strikes again! Nothing quite captures the frantic desperation of a physics student like watching them contort their fingers into increasingly bizarre configurations during an exam. While the English teacher supervising the exam wonders if you're having a seizure, you're just trying to figure out if the current is going up, down, or into the 5th dimension. The best part? After all that hand yoga, you'll still probably get it wrong and blame it on "forgetting to flip the vector." Classic physics student coping mechanism.

Physics students making finger guns during the E&M exam aren't trying to shoot their way to a better grade—they're using the right-hand rule to figure out magnetic field directions. Point your thumb in the current direction, fingers in the magnetic field direction, and your palm shows you where the force acts. Meanwhile, the non-physics teacher supervising just thinks the classroom has devolved into some weird gang sign competition. Classic electromagnetic confusion in its natural habitat.

The ultimate physics student panic moment! When your electromagnetism exam has you so confused you're literally using the right-hand rule to figure out which way the magnetic field points... while completely forgetting what you're supposed to be calculating! 😂 That hand gesture is the physics student's secret weapon - Fleming's right-hand rule for determining the direction of magnetic force. But knowing which finger represents current, magnetic field, or force won't save you when you've forgotten Maxwell's equations! Every physics student knows that desperate feeling - maybe if I just wiggle my fingers in the right orientation, the answers will magically appear on my paper!