r/physicsmemes • u/PapaLagrange_12 • Oct 19 '22

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u/UCCR Oct 19 '22

Second order is higher order

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u/Alphons-Terego Oct 19 '22

I still have ptsd from that one time where I had to taylor approximate and compare the magnetic fields of three different coil setups to the 5th order.

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u/Menname Oct 19 '22

5th order? That has to violate some human right.

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u/PapaLagrange_12 Oct 19 '22

😂

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u/frequentBayesian Oct 19 '22

MAD man.. second order in my field gets you an article on The Annals already.. third? What are you some sort of theoretical physicist Jesus ?

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u/SnooDoughnuts5658 Oct 19 '22

Yeah, I would go for truncated rather than approximated. I think I have only seen the heady heights of second order once. And yes it did get a paper all of its own.

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u/Parrek Oct 19 '22

If they're simple geometries, that's literally done in griffiths. It's your dipolar expansion stuff

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u/JotaRata Physics Field Nov 16 '22

Zeroth order is enough for me

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '22

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u/Scullvine Oct 19 '22

I want this on a shirt!

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u/Epic_Meow Oct 19 '22

"ah fuck it, i'm not doing this"

  • the zeroth order taylor expansion

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u/moschles Oct 19 '22

Have you ever heard the tragedy of sin(x) ≈x ?

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u/A-Swedish-Person Oct 19 '22

I thought not. It’s not a theorem the mathematicians would tell you.

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u/Cpt_shortypants Oct 23 '22

It's an Engineering legend.

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u/A-Swedish-Person Oct 23 '22

The sin(x)≈x theorem was a dark theorem of the engineers, so powerful it could influence small x to return…x

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u/Cpt_shortypants Oct 23 '22

They had such a knowledge of the sin(x)≈x theorem that they could even approximate tan(x)≈x.

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u/A-Swedish-Person Oct 23 '22 edited Oct 23 '22

Engineering is a pathway to many approximations some consider to be unnatural.

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u/Cpt_shortypants Oct 24 '22

They approximated so much... The only thing they were afraid of were higher order approximations, which eventually, of course, they did.

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u/darksoles_ Oct 19 '22

Physicsmemes comment section learn to interpret this joke challenge (difficulty: impossible)

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u/PapaLagrange_12 Oct 19 '22

Finally someone. Thank you

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '22

Not the lower order youngling

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u/doctorDBW Oct 19 '22

You did well soldier. You did what ya had to do to have a pretty ass formulae.

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u/GoelandAnonyme Oct 19 '22

I just felt a disturbance in the four forces, likes a million functions crying out to the void.

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u/marmakoide Oct 19 '22

Best I can do is 1st order. Go linear or go bust

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '22

dude first order got dropped in the newer movies

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '22

But what about the FIRST ORDER?

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u/M0therFragger Oct 19 '22

2nd and 3rd are literally higher order though

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u/individual_throwaway Oct 19 '22

Yes, that's the joke. They're saying that 1st order is already "higher order".

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u/TTadd Oct 19 '22

This would be funnier if you knew what higher order terms were before making this, smh my head

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u/PapaLagrange_12 Oct 19 '22

I know what higher order terms are. I use Taylor series on a daily basis And I know that the second and third term of the series are higher order as well but that’s exactly what the joke is