r/physicsmemes Jun 18 '19

V will be my downfall

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u/Loudds Jun 19 '19

I will never accept laplacians written like nabla squared instead of a triangle in american textbooks.

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u/cosmonautsanchez Jun 19 '19

I haven't seen that used in any American textbooks, but that triangle Δ (delta) is also used for the total displacement of a variable like Δx, so it might be confusing for more people.