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[–] bored_boar_onboard@lemmy.world 141 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Reminds me of the opening paragraph from ‘States of Matter’:

Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.

That opening goes pretty fucking hard.

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

University Physics sucks but physical chemistry is all Boltzmann all the time and it's so awful

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

economics has a million texts by a million econ professors and a few good ones by greg mankiw

[–] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 75 points 3 months ago (2 children)

the older the meme gets the more it seems to dissipate into low res and compression artifacts. It's like a fading memory

[–] Fla@lemmy.zip 18 points 3 months ago

As is the way. Soon it will be your turn to screenshot this image, print it out and take a photo you can share with others online ❤️

[–] protist@mander.xyz 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A Dog Called Kitty 😭 4th grade

[–] Pronell@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

I loved that book!

[–] fascicle@leminal.space 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Goodnight moon, not me but baby, got carried away saying bye to everything while sleepy and delusional

[–] chuymatt@startrek.website 3 points 3 months ago

My baby you’ll be, or some such did me in as a parent who lost their mother. I’m not good to read that one.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago
[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago

OpenStax is the world’s largest publisher of open education resources (OER) and a provider of interactive learning technologies and education research for high school and college. We are a nonprofit initiative of Rice University.

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago

I really like their highlight functions. But it makes me fucking batty that you can’t do it on mobile.

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I have that book. It has an absolute ton of practice problems. They were not very helpful for my electricity & magnetism final!

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 3 points 3 months ago

Yup. Study the past papers, not the textbook.

[–] braxy29@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Absolution by Jeff Vandermeer.

[–] v_krishna@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is that the new one? This spring i read the 3 original ones (had never heard of the series A friend turned me on to it) but I've been holding off reading the new one to make it last.

[–] braxy29@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

yes, that's the new one! it seems like some people didn't care for it, but i loved it and i thought it was a fitting conclusion to everything that came before.

fair warning the second half is.... well, it's something else. just roll with it if you decide to read it.

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] chuymatt@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago

There it is. Thanks. Couldn’t remember this little heart stomper’s name.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've read the giving tree recently and i must say, it kinda makes me angry, but not so much because of its sad story, but because i think that that is not a good way of life. you can't give away your life, i think, and you shouldn't look at yourself like a candle that is pre-destined to burn down through its course.

i believe that to truly live well, one must always live as if one had a very long life and must be sustainable in any action. this includes not giving away parts of your life that don't regrow. that is why the giving tree made me so angry.

[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I very much agree. It is held up as this wonderful parable of how you should live. It's the sort of thing that the powerful use to take advantage and abuse the weak.

This kind of puerile shit is bad for children and is just like a lot of the Jesus crap that gets pounded into kids.

[–] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago
[–] oxideseven@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Never cried reading a book. And I read a ton. Cry with music, TV, and movies. Never books though. Weird. Never thought about it.

[–] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Have you read University Physics by Young?

[–] GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And Freedman. Feel like its appropriate to mention his name for some reason.

[–] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

Well, sure, but Freedman only joined several years and editions after my copy of the book was printed so I only learned about him today and in my mind the book is still just University Physics by Young, sorry about that.

[–] BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I cried reading Peoject Hail Mary lol

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 3 months ago

Try reading them in bed laying on your back. When you fall asleep and drop them on your face, the heavy ones will make you cry.

[–] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago
[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

2 kinds of people.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Way to explain the joke, Roger.

[–] Anne@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

They Cage the Animals at Night by Jennings Burch