First-year physics students seeing the determinant form of curl: "Oh, that's manageable."
Then the integral definition appears: "Wait, this is getting scary..."
Finally, differential forms notation: "WHAT UNHOLY MATHEMATICAL DEMON IS THIS?!"
Vector calculus: where perfectly reasonable students transform into screaming passengers in a car driven by a cartoon cat who clearly failed his differential equations exam. The math department sends their regards!
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