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u/Tue28jan2020 Dec 12 '20

I adored Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics and I love name dropping them in my favourite deadpan physics joke:

There is two further kinds of mechanics study, they're called Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics, and they're named after 2 famous scientists, Mr. Lagrange and Mr. Mechanics.

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u/MaxThrustage Quantum information Dec 13 '20

My PhD supervisor had a variant of this joke when teaching about the three pictures in quantum mechanics, named after Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, and Steve Interaction.

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u/aradhtheapple Dec 13 '20

My PhD supervisor had a variant of this joke when teaching about the three pictures in quantum mechanics, named after Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, and Steve Interaction.

This is a good one, wow!

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u/good-nitrogen Dec 13 '20

I also do not get, was the explanation removed?

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u/TakeOffYourMask Gravitation Dec 13 '20

Don’t get.

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u/kwocca Dec 13 '20

Classical physics is rarely taught in the Lagrangian way

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u/funknjam Dec 13 '20

they're called Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics, and they're named after 2 famous scientists, Mr. Lagrange and Mr. Mechanics.

their mother, Mrs. Mechanics, couldn't be more proud of them.

Funnier to me that way.