How Physicists See Chickens

How Physicists See Chickens
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Behold, the perfect spherical chicken in its natural habitat! In introductory physics problems, we're always told to "assume a spherical cow" or other ridiculous simplifications to make the math work. This chicken clearly got the memo and decided to comply with our theoretical models. Next week in class: frictionless surfaces and point masses! Remember kids, in physics we don't care about feathers, beaks, or biological reality—just whether we can integrate over its volume using spherical coordinates.

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