But Without Air Resistance

The eternal struggle of engineering professors vs. students who just want to skip the math! This meme brilliantly captures the existential crisis of materials mechanics instructors watching students try to shortcut complex structural analysis. Those equations? They're stress-strain relationships that students spend hours deriving manually, while secretly wishing they could just plug numbers into software. The colored stress visualization tool is literally what engineers invented to avoid doing these calculations by hand! And that final equation (δ = PL/EA) asking for "apples please" is the ultimate engineering student move - memorizing deflection formulas without understanding the underlying principles of elastic modulus, cross-sectional area, and load distribution. The professor's frustration is palpable. "Draw a circle without eigenvectors" might as well be "explain quantum mechanics using only emojis." Pure engineering sacrilege!

Hunting down Franklin in the fiery depths because he got electricity completely backwards ! The dude decided electrons flow from positive to negative (conventional current), when they actually zoom the other way. Now generations of physics students suffer through circuit diagrams with arrows pointing in the wrong direction! The ultimate scientific bamboozle that still haunts our textbooks centuries later. Imagine being so brilliant yet leaving behind an electrical legacy that makes engineers twitch uncontrollably.

Nothing says "I understand projectile motion" quite like calculating the perfect moment to egg your physics teacher. The textbook casually asking you to commit assault with breakfast food while showing your mathematical prowess is peak academia. The author even throws in "neglect air resistance" because apparently ethics aren't the only thing we're ignoring here. Bonus points for the answer being right there at the bottom—6 meters away—as if the publisher's legal team insisted on plausible deniability. "We weren't encouraging violence, we were encouraging learning !"

When a physicist finally peeks inside Schrödinger's famous thought experiment only to find a regular cat staring back, not the quantum superposition they were hoping for! The joke plays on the famous quantum mechanics thought experiment where a cat in a box is theoretically both alive and dead simultaneously until observed. Finding a normal cat ruins the whole quantum party – like expecting to witness the fabric of reality unraveling and instead getting a furball wondering where its dinner is. The disappointed cat face perfectly captures that moment when reality fails to live up to theoretical physics.

The pinnacle of physics dad jokes right here! Someone literally slapped the CERN logo on a person's face and labeled an award trophy as "Particle Particle" and "Large Hadron Collider." It's the physics equivalent of saying "I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV." The meme brilliantly reduces the world's largest and most complex scientific instrument—a 27km underground ring accelerating particles to near light speed—to just... two objects bonking together. Nobel Prize for minimalism!

The eternal physics classroom dilemma in its purest form! Pride vs. actual learning is the greatest unsolved equation in academia. Every physics student has calculated the risk: "Is my question dumber than my future grade if I don't ask it?" The silence in lecture halls isn't from understanding—it's from collective fear of being the one who asks "wait, why isn't gravity just magic?" Meanwhile, professors everywhere are screaming internally: "PLEASE ASK QUESTIONS!" Pro tip: the smartest physicists ask the "dumbest" questions. Einstein probably raised his hand to ask "but what if time is, like, bendy?" and changed science forever.