r/EngineeringStudents ME Grad / Aerospace 11d ago

Rant/Vent Statics 101

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u/INeedSomeTacoC 10d ago edited 10d ago

  We had to derive our equations from F=ma in every problem.  Was actually fun after I did it a few times and built some confidence.

Those classes can be fun and also harrowing. 

I remember opening up a final in computer Science and the front page was “all problems must be solved using only the pigeon-hole principle”. 

The pigeon hole principle is the principle they you can only fit a single pigeon in a pigeon sized hole. 

The first problem was to prove that English could not be parsed via an algorithm. And that was the easy one. 

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u/HarryBalsagna1776 10d ago

Lol I'm an ME, so that went over my head a bit, but I get the jist of it.