Funny Definition and 188 Threads

Please select up to 3 members who tickle your funny bone the most here at PF in 2024. Oftentimes comedy is the perfect companion to science! This is a popular vote. Polls were created by weighing activity levels in comedic threads and positive reactions. Everyone nominated should feel honored...

TL;DR Summary: Funny (but very well informed) video about QM. Hope this is not considered off-topic, but anyone so inclined and with 4+ mins to spare might enjoy this (intentionally funny) QM video by eigenchris:

THIS IS NOT HOMEWORK I design audiophile power amps as hobby. I need to match power transistors. It is A LOT HARDER than I thought. I built a test fixture to hold up to 50 transistors at a time. I try to match sets of 13 to about 1mV which is very tight as Vbe change is about -2mV/deg C. I have...

Short satire piece: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/signs-you-work-in-the-cool-lab

So here I am slaving over Perl documentation (For my own pleasure I'm sad to say. I regard programming as LEGO for grownups) and I'm finding weird and funny things like: I mean what is that about? And perhaps less obvious: Well yes, it might :) You have any even more crazy or funny...

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Happy Pi Day: Pi jokes! A mathematician, a physicist, and an engineer are all given identical rubber balls and told to find the volume. They are given anything they want to measure it, and have all the time they need. The mathematician pulls out a measuring tape and records the circumference...

I watched a “What Are We Eating?” video by Wolfe Pit about a cheap steak being real meat or just glued trimmings. My interest was in the glue itself since I have a professional interest in crosslinking proteins. Anyway, the narrator goes through the ingredient list and comes to sodium...

In asking a question about analysis textbooks there was a bit of a chat about things like S = 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 ... = 1 - (1 + -1 +1 -1 ...) or 2S = 1 or S=1/2. I will say straight away the answer to what's going on - what infinite sums are, are simply definitions and believe it or not there are a...

I am your Cheese Lord... lol jk. Ok the guy said to introduce myself first so here goes nothing. My rl name is Emma. I have two annoying sisters and my parents just got divorced. My parents also got rid of our dogs recently and I have a lot of school work to finish. Like my science project. I...

Everybody knows what this is Teachers very like to show it to students as an illustration of conservation laws. But this toy illustrates something less trivial also. And the questions are 1) should students know such things? 2) are there another explanations besides the one proposed below ...

I wonder if anyone has some fun or interesting stories about their high school or university physics teachers. In my case there are several, and some of these teachers had tremendous reputations. These were actual professors of mine, so I know this is not apocryphal. Of course I will never...

Can you write a funny caption for this photo?

http://www.theonion.com/article/nasa-discovers-distant-planet-located-outside-fund-53595 "WASHINGTON—Noting that the celestial body lies within the habitable zone of its parent star and could potentially harbor liquid water, NASA officials announced at a press conference Thursday they have...

Today's xkcd: http://meteorites.wustl.edu/check-list.htm']Meteorite[/PLAIN] Identification [Source: http://www.xkcd.com/1723/] Clicking on the image gives you a link to an actual flowchart: Self-Test Check-List {image does not support hot-linking, so I removed direct link to flowchart...

https://psychology-tools.com/empathy-quotient/ Also watch this video: How it was? What was your empathy quotient? Did you yawn? :)

Homework Statement This is a problem that I really liked and that I want to share with you. Firstly because of the story around it, secondly because of the unexpected solution, and finally because it can be investigated with a computer for those who are the least comfortable with maths...

I was bored and searched the internet for funny stories and these 2 caught my eye o0). lol.Dad: I want you to marry a girl of my choice. Son: No! Dad: The girl is bill gates daughter. …Son: Then okay *dad goes to bill gates.* …Dad: I want your daughter to marry my son. Bill gates: No! Dad: My...

funny little news story... http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/29/476154494/weasel-shuts-down-world-s-most-powerful-particle-collider

A rubber ball is bouncing on a flat surface. Every time it bounces, it loses energy, while the sound of the ball hitting the surface accelerates (because the intervals of the ball impacting the surface become shorter with each bounce). The ball seems to be accelerating when, in fact, it is...

Hairstyle in the 80's! http://9gag.com/gag/aE7gNB9?ref=fsidebar

have a great weekend everyoneDave

Last night I had a drink with my friend and short after he started talking about self charging keyboard. It is a wireless keyboard and it "could" be charged when you are typing ( mechanical to electrical ) or by cleaning it ( whipping off the keyboard with something and then electrons "would" be...

While coming across online news, I saw an article by the Independent saying that they support the bombing of Agrabah. If you do not know what that is, it's the location where the movie Aladdin took place. This, of course, is a fictional city so I was laughing hysterically. Now, I know not every...

Can anyone think of a math nickname for the name "Khalil"? Thank you!

http://e9fun.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Funny-Monkey-Playing-With-Cat.jpg any one else have pics of monkeys playing, i love the little critters,

I've been working an internship over the summer, and I ran into a very humorous coding error. Everyone at the office got a kick out of it, and I thought some forum members might laugh at it as well: So painful! It was not very funny fixing it though.

I really like the book, its the first physics textbook that I liked actually. But I've found a minor error. On page 8 (chapter 1 The Wave Function) it says that if you sum deviations from average of a random variable you'd get zero because " Δj is as often negative as positive", here's the...

enjoy :)

A WISE MAN... UNTIL HE RETURNS HOME 4 men have fishing trips often and one weekend Ron's wife said he couldn't go. The 3 others were going to miss him but when they got to camp, Ron had his tent pitched and a fire going so naturally they wanted to know. Ron said when he got home from work his...

yup, that about covers it ;)

Hey guys here I found a hand-written paper. It is very funny to see it. http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/lmason/Tn/26/TN26-02.pdf Could this be of any importance for current physics?

There is this commercial where a guy was falling asleep in physics class, the professor calls his name and asks him what's the answer to a theoretical problem the professor has on the board. The guy looks around confused, sees someone in front of him with the number 7 on his back, so he says the...

cheers Dave

Here is a video of a funny accident that happened at a steel mill in Russia. Thousands of pounds of molten metal come pouring out of it's ladle onto the floor due to equipment failure. Fortunately no one was hurt in this incident, but the whole plant could have gone up in flames if the outcome...

a good laugh :)

Good morning! I want to show you a few exercises given to me by my Physics teacher as an additional task. I'm aware that for some of you they may seem trivial, but I found it hard to face them because of them being full theoretical, with no actual data given. Mind that I'm only 15 :(. I'd love...

I'm grading for integral calculus this summer, and I saw something pretty funny. This most recent homework is just like 40-50 integrals basically. There were homeworks where there were literally no steps given, just solutions. Obviously just plugged into Wolfram Alpha. There was one homework...

THAT'S AN EXTREMELY HILARIOUS INTERVIEW WITH STEPHEN HAWKING. What are your thoughts on it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPV3D7f3bHY

So, yeah. Here I am, a fledgling Undergraduate Freshman at Brigham Young University. I've been reading Brian Greene's books, and darn, do I love physics. This was the semester I decided to change my major from Mechanical Engineering to Physics-Astronomy. Well, one night, as some of this...

Maybe Starbucks might want to take another look at the design on their vans, or simply not open one of their doors, ever! :) Got this from a friend, and I think it is circulating on the 'net. Zz.

Are there any jokes related to c++?

Is this really worthy of being pointed out as a corollary??

Hey everyone, I'm searching for some really funny answers by students in maths/physics test, i googled it but getting the same old images, can anyone give some useful links or share any funny answers you ever saw

I was arguing with a friend and he said to drop it. I responded with " I indeed will at 9.8 m/s^2." That's when I wondered if there's anymore good physics puns. Anybody got any that I can use in everyday scenarios?

I know this is silly but it'd be greatly helpful. I'm in grad school for astrophysics AND have a full time job in an office (media). The office is amazing, the people are great. I've been here for about 8 months now. One of the most liked co-workers is moving and leaving us (she just got engaged...