10 Jun
2010
10 Jun
'10
11:42 a.m.
On 6/10/10, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
When I was at school doing A levels, the subject I
really hated was
applied maths' (motion of bodies under various forces, projectile
motion, etc). The reason is that it was so _fake_. There wrre so many
unjustified approximations that it is useless in the real world. It was
just a game to get you to solve equations.
"Assume you have a bulldozer of negligible mass"
or
"I have a solution, but it only works for spherical chickens in a vacuum"
etc., etc.
-ethan