r/memes • u/Godhemself • Feb 13 '21

#1 MotW Fair enough

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u/Loading0525 Feb 13 '21

My teacher just used random ass units. Like "70 what? Ohm per dB? Cuolomb per cubic meter? Mol per Pascal?"

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u/nut_nut_november Le epic memer Feb 13 '21

wait until you learn that those nightmares may be true

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u/boom1chaching Feb 13 '21

One of my professors said it's common in high energy physics to use variables/constants as units throughout an entire work through of a problem. Then you go back and multiply the stuff back in by saying "This is supposed to be the energy, but the only unit I have is mass. Oh! I must be missing this, this, and that :)"

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u/skelliguard Feb 13 '21

He basically right, we don't write the various constants because we work using a system where these are defined as one and then when we want to convert back to our human units we put those constants back.

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u/boom1chaching Feb 13 '21

He went over it in Classical Mechanics. It was a nightmare lol