This is what happens when you take Physics 101! The meme shows Atlas holding up the world, but instead of just bearing the weight of the Earth, he's also carrying the burden of physics approximations.
At the top, we've got the pendulum equation (T = 2π√(L/g)) which only works for small angles. Below, poor Atlas is struggling with the small-angle approximations that physicists use to simplify trigonometric functions: sin θ ≈ θ, cos θ ≈ 1 - θ²/2, and tan θ ≈ θ.
Every physics student knows the pain of being told "just assume it's a perfect sphere in a vacuum" or "friction is negligible." Atlas isn't just holding up the world—he's holding up all those shortcuts that make physics problems solvable on exams!