Imagine you had a metal cube suspended in a zero gravity vacuum. If you were to poke the cube precisely in the middle of one of its faces exactly towards its center of mass, the cube would accelerate forward directly away from you with no angular acceleration.
If you were to move your hand...
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Getting a degree as a web developer I don't think anyone was really looking out to see if I had proper academic form outside of the required classes. I actually did take a class in partial differential equations on my own volition...
A couple of months ago, in-between jobs, I was doing some light research work at Cornell and sitting in on some classes (hiding behind a Big Red hoodie) when a graduate student offhandedly introduced the class to system dynamics and continued rambling on. I knew immediately that that was what I...