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Weight Is Not Mass

Weight Is Not Mass
This is physics humor at its finest! The trick question asks which weighs more: 1kg of steel or feathers. The clever third person points out they have the same mass (1kg), but reminds us that weight (W=mg) depends on gravitational pull! So technically, if the feathers were on the Moon and the steel on Earth, they'd have different weights despite identical mass. Physics teachers everywhere are silently nodding with approval right now!

Physics Homework: The Great Formula Shuffle

Physics Homework: The Great Formula Shuffle
Physics forums in a nutshell! 😂 Two random users frantically copying each other's homework but switching between Newton and Coulomb's formulas for gravitational and electrostatic forces. The beauty here? Both equations have the same structure! Newton's law of gravitation (F = G·m₁m₂/r²) and Coulomb's law (F = k·q₁q₂/r²) are mathematical twins - one for masses, one for charges. It's the perfect representation of that panicked "I have no idea what I'm doing but I'll make it look different enough" energy that haunts every physics student's nightmares. The desperate glances, the hasty scribbling... pure academic chaos!

Newton 🤝 Coulomb: Inverse Square Soulmates

Newton 🤝 Coulomb: Inverse Square Soulmates
Two scientific giants, one mathematical structure. Newton's law of gravitation and Coulomb's law of electrostatic force are practically identical twins separated at birth. Both follow the inverse square relationship where force decreases with the square of distance. The only difference? Masses versus charges. It's like they both independently discovered the universe's favorite copy-paste template. Nature really said "why create new math when the old one works perfectly fine?"

Newton And Coulomb: The Original Homework Copiers

Newton And Coulomb: The Original Homework Copiers
Look at these two scientific copycats in their natural habitat! Newton's over there with his gravitational force equation (F = G m₁m₂/d²) thinking he's all original, while Coulomb's giving him the side-eye because his electrostatic force equation (F = k q₁q₂/r²) is basically the same formula with different letters! 😂 It's the ultimate "can I copy your homework?" moment in physics history! Except Coulomb came along nearly 100 years later, so it's more like "I'll just change it enough so the teacher won't notice." The universe really does have a formula fetish for inverse square relationships!

Shifting Point Of Reference Is So Heck Cool!

Shifting Point Of Reference Is So Heck Cool!
Newton's third law gets a confidence boost. The difference between "Earth pulls me down" and "I attract Earth" is just ego and a frame of reference shift. Technically both statements are correct—gravity is mutual. Just imagine the planet rushing up to meet you because it finds you so attractive. That's not just physics, that's romance at 9.8 m/s².

The Mysterious Third Force

The Mysterious Third Force
The eternal physics conundrum! Birds somehow defy Newton's laws with their middle-finger to gravity. While everything else plummets earthward at 9.8 m/s², these feathered aerodynamic wizards just... don't? The meme perfectly captures that third mysterious force that counteracts gravity—lift generation through wing shape and air pressure differentials. It's basically birds exploiting Bernoulli's principle while the rest of us are stuck with "apple falls from tree" physics. Nature's way of saying "I've mastered fluid dynamics and you haven't."

It Sounds Better In Latin

It Sounds Better In Latin
Nothing elevates your intellectual status quite like rebranding "science" as "natural philosophy." Suddenly your lab coat transforms into a tweed jacket with elbow patches, and instead of running experiments, you're "contemplating the fundamental truths of the physical world." Newton wasn't discovering gravity; he was having a profound metaphysical revelation under an apple tree. Same research, fancier business cards.

Theory Vs. Practice: The Mechanic's Dilemma

Theory Vs. Practice: The Mechanic's Dilemma
The difference between theory and practice summed up in one glorious image! On the left: the textbook showing a lone mechanic struggling under a car. On the right: the solutions manual reveals the REAL approach - grab your friends, have someone else do the work, and supervise from a comfortable perch! Newton's Fourth Law: For every physics problem, there exists an equal and opposite shortcut that involves other people's labor. This is basically every physics student's journey from "I'll figure it out myself" to "I wonder if someone posted the answer on Chegg?" 🔧

It Was Always Called Science

It Was Always Called Science
That moment when you realize your entire field was just rebranded. Before Newton, Galileo, and the gang showed up with their fancy experiments and math, people were already trying to figure out how nature worked—they just called it "natural philosophy." Same product, better packaging. Modern scientists are basically philosophers with cooler equipment and grant proposals.

Newton Cheers From His Grave

Newton Cheers From His Grave
The mathematical pun that would make calculus students either giggle or groan! This equation shows that the derivative of position with respect to time equals velocity (di/dt = i̇). It's basically saying "the rate of change of i is i-dot" which is both mathematically correct AND a spectacular dad joke rolled into one. Newton is somewhere in the afterlife high-fiving Leibniz while simultaneously face-palming at this gloriously nerdy wordplay. Even differential equations have a sense of humor!

Blaming Newton When Things Fall Down

Blaming Newton When Things Fall Down
That face you make when someone thinks Newton invented gravity instead of describing it mathematically! Like apples just floated around aimlessly before 1687. "Sorry dinosaurs, you can't fall into that tar pit yet—Newton won't be born for another 160 million years!" The man formulated universal gravitation and revolutionized physics, but he didn't install the force itself. Next they'll tell us Benjamin Franklin invented electricity rather than just getting zapped by it.

The Short(est) History Of Fundamental Physics

The Short(est) History Of Fundamental Physics
The entire history of physics reduced to notation changes. Newton took discrete sums (Σ) and made calculus with integrals (∫). Then Planck came along and quantized everything back to discrete chunks. Three centuries of revolutionary physics distilled into "we made it continuous, then we made it discrete again." Scientists spent 300 years running in a mathematical circle just to end up where they started. The universe's greatest practical joke on physicists.