Friendly equations plus other Math and science cartoons
February 10th, 2008 | by Sol |
These cartoons are courtesy of Nearingzero.net, “an archive of largely satisfactory cartoon freeware.” Check out their site for more fun cartoons.
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16 Responses to “Friendly equations plus other Math and science cartoons”
By Raymond Chua on Feb 11, 2008 | Reply
Thanks for sahring the funny pictures.
I love them all. (Just don’t understand the last one)
By Sol on Feb 11, 2008 | Reply
Raymond,
I’m glad you enjoyed the jokes.
What’s funny to me about the last joke is that astrophysics is considered to be such a difficult subject that a blackboard full of unintelligible writing is considered to be “simple”. What would this blackboard look like if it were not simple!?
By Denise on Feb 11, 2008 | Reply
Great fun! Thanks for bringing a smile to a stressed-out day.
By Alex Kay on Feb 11, 2008 | Reply
These are great Sol!
By Sol on Feb 12, 2008 | Reply
@Denise and Alex: I’m glad you enjoyed them. The first one on deferential equations really cracked me up!
By Rich on Feb 12, 2008 | Reply
Tthe second one does not make sense. Shouldn’t the bottom 83 degree and 97 degrees be switched or am I just forgetting my basic applied algebra (highly probable).
By nigr on Feb 12, 2008 | Reply
rich, what are u on about?? i only hope u have made a mistake in thinking the rod is parallel to the pond and hence z angles apply. otherwise 97 is clearly greater than 83. sorry
By Moi on Feb 12, 2008 | Reply
He’s thinking the rod/line is running perpendicular to the pond, not parallel. That’s your mistake, nigr.
By j on Feb 13, 2008 | Reply
the last one- if the blackboard showed more complex explanations of astrophysics, there would probably be a lot of Riemannian geometry, expanded calculations using maxwell’s equations, and general relativity. There are huge books on each of those subjects. Now, if he was also working toward a unified theory of physics, he’s need another blackboard.
By Peter on Feb 13, 2008 | Reply
Cant read the 3rd one.
By EE Phillips on Feb 13, 2008 | Reply
Thanks for a laugh.
I think nigr realized what rich was seeing. Rich must have remembered that alternate (z)angles are equal when parallel lines are intersected by another line. If the line were perpendicular to the surface Rich would have thought both angles should be 90.
ANYWAY, those were pretty funny.
By Dizzley on Feb 17, 2008 | Reply
I like the Stats one - in the right accent: “a notorious outlier”.
I guess the town likes to consider itself “normal”.
By GFYM on Feb 19, 2008 | Reply
The last one is called irony.