Physics professors everywhere just nodded in approval. The left drawing perfectly captures what happens when physicists say "let's simplify the problem" – suddenly that complex chicken becomes a perfect sphere! This is the infamous "spherical cow approximation" in action, where messy real-world objects get transformed into perfect mathematical shapes so equations actually work. Meanwhile, the real chicken on the right is just living its non-spherical life, completely unaware it's breaking several laws of theoretical physics by having actual features. Next up in the physics textbook: frictionless chickens in a vacuum!
Assume Spherical Chicken
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