Inclined plane Memes

When the physics homework asks for "time" but you end up designing an entire locomotive propulsion system! This student took a simple inclined plane problem and transformed it into a masterpiece of engineering overkill. The beautiful hand-drawn truck with exhaust vectors is what happens when you've had way too much caffeine during finals week. The equations are technically correct, but this is like using a nuclear reactor to toast a sandwich. Props for the artistic talent though—that truck deserves to be framed alongside the solution!

Physics textbooks: "Let's assume the surface is frictionless..." Real physicists trying to solve actual problems: "I'm limited by the technology of my time." Nothing ruins a perfectly elegant equation faster than adding friction into the mix! Suddenly your nice, clean inclined plane problem turns into a mathematical nightmare with coefficients of friction and normal forces crashing the party. Those beautiful parabolic trajectories? Gone. That simple acceleration calculation? Ruined. No wonder physicists look so defeated when reality refuses to be an idealized system!

The infamous Throckmorton - physics textbooks' favorite fictional skateboarder who's been falling down inclined planes since 1957. Physics professors apparently decided that "Bob" or "Alice" weren't quirky enough for calculating normal forces. Generations of students have silently wondered if Throckmorton's parents hated him or if textbook writers just enjoy typing unnecessary syllables while creating problems about rigid bodies. Next semester they'll probably introduce his equally fictional cousin, Bartholomew von Fizzlewick, who's constantly dropping eggs from various heights.