The Rebecca Black meme spreads to school Physics, society stands on the verge of collapse

Monday, April 11, 2011


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32 comentarii:

Anonymous said...

I think Rebecca needs to be heavily medicated and not let lose in public if thats the kind of things she stands and obsessively compulsates about before getting into a friend's vehicle.

Anonymous said...

To the person who figured out the equation.

Amazing. You just won at life.

Anonymous said...

lol, "amazing"...
it's just physics, biach

Anonymous said...

I believe he was being sarcastic, unless you were being sarcastic, but yours was bad sarcasm if that's the case.

Anonymous said...

I like that we don't have to have an account to comment.

Anonymous said...

agreed

Anonymous said...

WOW YOU GUYS POST FROM THE FUTURE !! MY ISP IS WAY FASTER THAN I THOUGHT !

Anonymous said...

Anonymous, we are legion

Anonymous said...

Omg i love rebecca black! This makes my day!! Tehehehehehehe

Anonymous said...

Then suddenly, DICKS!!!! Thousands of them!!!!

Anonymous said...

didn't really need the 9.8/s/s in this equation..ignored it, got 250N vs 280N. KISS lol

Anonymous said...

Umm, you do need the 9.8 m/s/s in the equation...You need it to find her weight in order to find her Normal force, because normal force is used to calculate friction.

Anonymous said...

Sup gais

Anonymous said...

In a general situation such as this, you definitely don't need the gravitational acceleration. Because it's included in finding the static friction in both the front and back seat, you can cancel it from both and still get proportional answers. Just saves a lot of time when you only need a greater/less than answer.

Anonymous said...

That song might work with lyrics like that could nt be worse anyway

Anonymous said...

Hey anonymous... You know who you are..

Why don't you gravitationally accelerate my balls?

Anonymous said...

My life is now complete

Anonymous said...

Rebecca Black meme made it to Physics... 1st sign of the Apocalypse.

Also, "If she sits in the front seat she has to hold her friend's books."

Physics problems can now be solved with logic instead using good ol' formulas.

Again, we're boned.

Anonymous said...

lollolololol

Anonymous said...

What? NO! FRONT SEAT! If the thirteen-year-old in the driver's seat crashes the car, I want Rebecca to be as dead as possible.

Anonymous said...

mass is irrelevant: bruised clavicle and broken nose in the front seat (unless the air-bag is off then strained muscles from the books being torn from her hands and no face injuries) in the front seat. at 88 lbs she is not tall enough to hit her head on th back of the seat (unless she is an anorexic fashion model then we need another discussion) so only bruises in the back seat.

Anonymous said...

Sup physic nerds o/

Anonymous said...

This problem is unsolvable with the given information. You can't simply assume that if she sits in the front seat, her mass is distributed completely over the front wheels, and likewise with the back seat. Assuming the car is simply a mass sitting on two springs (which is a gross oversimplification), we would need to know the spring constants for the front and rear suspension. In order to reach a more accurate conclusion, we would have to integrate over the length of the car to find a rotational moment of inertia. Then, considering that the springs and the masses of Rebecca and all of her friends are causing torques on the car about the center of mass of the car, we would need to sum those torques and relate them to the summations of the forces on the springs in the up and down direction to find approximate compression distances for those springs. Finally, assuming the wheels do not compress, we could determine the forces caused by each spring in the suspension on the road, thus determining normal force on the road by the wheels.

Anonymous said...

Being a comparison max(a,b) you can leave out the constant (9.8m/s^2), because it has no effect on the final result.

Anonymous said...

"didn't really need the 9.8/s/s in this equation..ignored it, got 250N vs 280N. KISS lol"

See how far ignorance takes you...

"Umm, you do need the 9.8 m/s/s in the equation...You need it to find her weight in order to find her Normal force, because normal force is used to calculate friction."

Where do you see weight? I see mass, not weight. “…calculate friction?” They gave you the coefficients of friction for the respective locations, you are calculating FORCE as affected by friction and mass (acceleration being constant in this example). F is measured in SI units of the NEWTON.

To get a quick answer (historically the most reliable conclusions in science), you could ignore the acceleration due to gravity, but your answers would be without units. You accounted for the mass and factored in a coefficient, but ignored ACCELERATION. Hope F=ma isn't oversimplified to the point we stop using the "a."

Anonymous said...

anonymous, we are legion, we are many

Anonymous said...

Rofl, simple physics solved by trolls.

Anonymous said...

did anyone really need to comment on this? fail ALL

Anonymous said...

None of this was needed!!! Fail to ALL

Anonymous said...

dro is good

Web Design said...

Assuming the Force of Friction is Mu(s) * Normal Force, the Force of Friction would be 275 Newtons. She should sit in the back seat. No thumbs up because fuck Clickers.

Anonymous said...

back seat.

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