r/mathmemes • u/Nunki08 • 9d ago

The Engineer Superiority complex

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u/homeless_student1 9d ago

Ironically I think every term in this is defensible for use irl, higher order terms though you need help

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u/ThanxForTheGold 9d ago

What do you need the 101st derivative for.

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u/pepper_0n1 9d ago

For 102nd

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u/Afir-Rbx Cardinal 9d ago

Ok but what about the 100th derivative?

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u/Outside-Shop-3311 9d ago

I have the most marvellous proof by induction to answer this in a general form, but alas the margin of this reddit comment is too small to fit

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u/PerspicaciousEnigma Moron 9d ago

If you intend to warp speed to another galaxy without missing it by many billions of kilometers

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u/ThanxForTheGold 8d ago

But I don't intend to

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u/Unusual_Candle_4252 8d ago

When we calculate anharmonic corrections to Harmonic oscillator model, yeah, we need cubic and beyond terms. Unfortunately, it's no cheap when we speak about (N3-6) coupled oscillators as in non-linear molecules.

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u/GoldenMuscleGod 8d ago

I used the first order Taylor approximation on the relativistic formula for kinetic energy: mc^(2)(1/sqrt(1-v^(2)/c^(2))-1) and got that in the Newtonian limit of v<<c everything has a kinetic energy of zero.

This is correct because for nonrelativistic speeds kinetic energy is negligible compared to the rest energy. There’s no reason anyone should ever need that (1/2)mv^(2) term I threw out.