Magnetism Memes

The scientific burn is STRONG with this one! 🔥 While Newton revolutionized physics with his laws of motion and gravity, magnetism remained largely untouched by his genius. The meme cleverly shows how the "book of magnetism" looks exactly the same with or without Newton's contributions - because there weren't any! It's the scientific equivalent of saying "I didn't need you anyway!" Scientists like Ampère, Faraday, and Maxwell had to step up and do the electromagnetic heavy lifting instead. Newton was too busy inventing calculus, explaining gravity, and getting hit by apples to bother with magnets!

When your crush wants to see your fingers in action but you're too busy calculating the cross product and right-hand rule. Nothing says "I'm scientifically irresistible" like demonstrating vector mathematics instead of flirting back! Physics nerds know that the real magic happens when you can determine the direction of magnetic fields while everyone else is trying to get your digits for entirely different reasons.

Every electrical engineer's nightmare! You're desperately trying to increase the induction in your circuit, but BOOM—the coil's self-inductance says "Not today, mortal!" 🤓⚡ It's like trying to fill a cup that keeps growing bigger! Self-inductance is that annoying phenomenon where a coil creates its own magnetic field that opposes changes in current. The universe's way of saying "you can't just have unlimited power, muhahaha!" The eternal electromagnetic tug-of-war continues!

Charged particles entering magnetic fields don't just politely follow Newton's first law—they get violently yanked into circular paths thanks to the Lorentz force. The meme perfectly captures that "yes, acceleration" moment when electromagnetic forces say "straight line motion? I don't think so." The particle's velocity vector changes direction but not magnitude, creating that characteristic circular or helical path. It's basically the particle equivalent of trying to walk straight after six espressos.

The joke here is that both books look identical because Newton didn't actually contribute to magnetism theory. It's the scientific equivalent of those "spot the difference" puzzles where there is no difference. Historians of science are quietly chuckling while everyone else frantically flips pages. The real magnetism pioneers were Gilbert, Ampère, and Faraday—Newton was too busy inventing calculus and getting hit by apples to care about magnets.

The ultimate physics prank! Someone's wearing a helmet with a magnet dangling above it, complete with the classic red and blue poles. The troll face says it all - they're baiting people into the age-old "magnets attract your brain" pseudoscience. It's basically the scientific equivalent of asking someone to disprove that unicorns DON'T exist. Classic burden of proof fallacy wrapped in magnetic field nonsense. Scientific trolling at its finest!

The right-hand thumb rule is one of those physics conventions we're supposed to memorize but secretly Google every time. It's that electromagnetic thing where your thumb, index, and middle fingers represent perpendicular vectors. The cat's awkward thumb position perfectly captures that moment when you're asked to demonstrate it during class and your brain short-circuits. Physics professors everywhere just nodded knowingly.

Behold, the perfect rebuttal to "memes aren't educational" - a comic literally teaching magnetic polarity! Those red and blue bar magnets show how opposites attract (S and N poles) while same poles repel. The prisoners are literally demonstrating one of physics' fundamental principles while plotting their escape. Talk about learning on the run! Next time someone claims memes are just mindless entertainment, just remember: even convicts in orange jumpsuits understand that unlike poles attract. Science education is happening whether your teacher approves or not!

The moment when a physics student discovers that magnets aren't just magical sticking things but actually quantum mechanical nightmares. Those Weiss domains—regions where electron spins align like stubborn committee members—are what give ferromagnetic materials their properties. And yes, technically they're "tiny magnets" in the same way that the Higgs boson is "just a particle." Next they'll be asking why we can't explain magnetism with classical physics, and I'll need stronger coffee for that conversation.

Iron atoms normally live their lives in complete chaos - spinning every which way like undergrads during finals week. But introduce a magnetic field? Suddenly they're lined up perfectly like freshmen at their first lab safety briefing. This is ferromagnetism in a nutshell - those unpaired electrons in iron's d-orbitals get bullied by magnetic fields into aligning their spins. It's basically peer pressure at the atomic level. Nature's way of saying "get your act together or else."

The progression of a physics student's mental breakdown during an exam is too real! First thinking a magnetic monopole equals zero (which is just wrong - they don't even exist!). Then believing a dipole equals zero (also incorrect - dipoles have non-zero magnetic moments). Finally, the glorious realization that they're dealing with a quadrupole all along! That moment when your brain finally catches up with the question and you realize you've been solving the wrong problem for 40 minutes of your 60-minute exam. The face says it all - pure electromagnetic enlightenment mixed with existential terror!