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Wall Owners Hate This One Weird Trick

Wall Owners Hate This One Weird Trick
Newton's first law has entered the chat! This genius thinks he's found the ultimate loophole in physics. "No acceleration means no force" is technically correct... if you ignore the whole "crashing into a stationary object" part. The constant velocity means zero net force UNTIL you meet the wall, then suddenly F=ma becomes very real, very fast. It's like trying to outsmart thermodynamics by saying "I'm not getting older, I'm just maintaining a constant temporal velocity." Physics doesn't care about your technicalities, friend - it cares about conservation of momentum and your car's sudden desire to become one with the brickwork!

All Of Them

All Of Them
When your professor asks which "moment" you're referring to in your physics paper and you realize there are approximately 8 billion different types. The struggle is real! Physics students drowning in a sea of moments—torque, inertia, momentum, magnetic, electric, seismic—while desperately trying to remember which one they actually need for their problem set. Meanwhile, their professor is just sitting there enjoying the existential crisis unfold. Classic physics department trauma.

The Pencil Is Mightier Than The Sword

The Pencil Is Mightier Than The Sword
Behold the humble #2 pencil—transformed into a ballistic nightmare! This is pure physics chaos in graphite form. When you accelerate that pointy boi to ridiculous speeds, kinetic energy skyrockets with the square of velocity (E=½mv²). That innocent school supply becomes a high-velocity projectile that could punch through materials like they're made of wet tissue paper! The same principle that makes meteorites devastating is why you shouldn't anger your physics teacher. They've done the calculations... they know exactly how fast to throw that pencil! 🚀📝💥

Newton's First Law Of Vacation Fails

Newton's First Law Of Vacation Fails
Newton's First Law of Motion has entered the chat! That poor diver just discovered inertia the hard way. While the RV keeps cruising at constant velocity, the diving board suddenly becomes a human launching pad. The person in the pool is witnessing physics in action while their friend gets an unexpected flying lesson. Remember kids: objects in motion tend to stay in motion... until they become hilarious cautionary tales about momentum conservation. That's why physicists don't typically install diving boards on moving vehicles!

The Physics Of Battery Panic

The Physics Of Battery Panic
From speed to velocity to momentum—the physics escalation of phone battery panic is too real! Nothing transforms a human into a vector quantity faster than that 1% notification. First you're just moving fast, then suddenly direction matters, and finally you remember that your 80kg body hurtling toward an outlet actually has significant momentum. Newton would be proud of how quickly we apply his laws when our digital lifelines are at stake. The progression from scalar to vector to conserved quantity is basically the three stages of battery grief.

Light Can Exert Pressure

Light Can Exert Pressure
Physics nerds getting excited about radiation pressure while cats remain unconvinced! The woman is dropping quantum physics knowledge bombs - photons have momentum despite zero rest mass thanks to Einstein's E=mc² and wave-particle duality. Meanwhile, the cats are having an existential crisis because their entire worldview is based on knocking things over with physical mass. The orange cat is basically the physical embodiment of classical mechanics having a breakdown. Next time your cat pushes something off a shelf, remind them they're just jealous of light's ability to do the same without mass!

Newton's Laws Of Dating Disaster

Newton's Laws Of Dating Disaster
Someone's out here trying to make life decisions based on a coin flip on a moving train, and the physics police showed up immediately! 😂 The commenter is absolutely right - flip a coin on a moving train and Newton's laws of motion will turn that simple decision into a physics experiment gone wrong! The coin would experience the train's forward momentum plus your upward toss, creating a beautiful parabolic trajectory... straight into your face or zooming away faster than your romantic chances with "ABSOLUTELY NOT." Inertial reference frames don't care about your dating life!

Newton's First Law Of Unfortunate Events

Newton's First Law Of Unfortunate Events
Newton's first law just claimed another victim! The diver forgot that objects in motion tend to stay in motion... while the RV definitely didn't forget to brake. That's inertia for you—turning a graceful dive into an impromptu physics demonstration. The pool keeps moving, but the diver? Not so much. Suddenly that "relative reference frame" isn't so relative anymore. Physics: teaching us life lessons at 60 mph.

Physics Ruins The Rescue

Physics Ruins The Rescue
Physics has entered the chat—and it's FURIOUS! 🤣 The classic movie scene where someone falls and gets heroically caught by a moving vehicle? Pure fantasy! The final panel shows what would ACTUALLY happen: vectors combine and—SPLAT!—you've just created a human pancake! The square root of (V₁² + V₂²) is the resultant velocity when the falling person meets the "rescuer," turning a heartwarming rescue into a tragic physics demonstration. Newton's laws don't care about your dramatic movie moment!

Schrödinger's Distant Cousins: The Uncertainty Principle

Schrödinger's Distant Cousins: The Uncertainty Principle
The ultimate visual proof of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle! Left cat is a total blob - knows exactly how fast it's moving (zero mph) but has NO IDEA where it is. Right cat knows precisely where it is but is probably vibrating at quantum frequencies wondering why it's in a cage at a pet show. This is what happens when cats become physics demonstrations - they either melt into quantum fuzziness or become anxiety-ridden position eigenstates. Nature won't let you have both, folks! The math checks out: 107 × 115 > ℏ/2. Even cats can't escape fundamental quantum limits.

The Real Cost Of A Physics Degree

The Real Cost Of A Physics Degree
The eternal curse of physics majors - that tiny brown slice representing "the math is hard" is nothing compared to the massive green portion: "You'll never enjoy action movies again as you'll always notice the wrong physics." Once you understand momentum conservation, every explosion scene becomes a crime against Newton's laws. "Why isn't that car moving in the opposite direction of the explosion? Where did all that angular momentum come from? That's not how pendulums work!" Your friends will stop inviting you to movie night when you start calculating whether Spider-Man's web could actually support his weight during that swing.

Conservation Of Momentum: Cosmic Edition

Conservation Of Momentum: Cosmic Edition
Einstein's proud dad moment watching Thor and Thanos apply physics in real-time! The meme perfectly captures the essence of Newton's Third Law—for every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction. When Thanos says "If I can't hit you with the hammer... Then I'll hit the hammer with you!" he's basically reciting the conservation of momentum equation while being super villainous. Einstein's approval face at the bottom is just *chef's kiss* because this cosmic showdown is basically a physics exam question come to life. The ultimate "apply your knowledge in a practical situation" scenario that would make any physics professor shed a tear of joy.