A joke that my Physics professor told us yesterday...

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: archcommus

Originally posted by: Gibson486

Originally posted by: archcommus

Originally posted by: Orsorum

Originally posted by: archcommus
I took physics last year and am in AP Physics this year and I don't get the joke at all.

You don't need physics, you need elementary calculus, I think.

Well, I've done a year of AP Calc, too, still don't get it.

Not AP calc. You learn it when 1) you take linear algebra or 2) you take multivariable calculas (calc 3 in most schools).

Oh, so I wouldn't be expected to understand it, then. Well, good.

I learned it when I was in AP Physics in high school.

😛

 

[Gibson486]

Originally posted by: walla
even if the mountain climber was a vector, are we to assume the lion would also be a vector? if not, there is no purpose to crossing them other than for perhaps comedic effect.

lion = line.... atleast that is how i always understood the joke as.

 

[Gibson486]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: archcommus

Originally posted by: Gibson486

Originally posted by: archcommus

Originally posted by: Orsorum

Originally posted by: archcommus
I took physics last year and am in AP Physics this year and I don't get the joke at all.

You don't need physics, you need elementary calculus, I think.

Well, I've done a year of AP Calc, too, still don't get it.

Not AP calc. You learn it when 1) you take linear algebra or 2) you take multivariable calculas (calc 3 in most schools).

Oh, so I wouldn't be expected to understand it, then. Well, good.

I learned it when I was in AP Physics in high school.

😛

 

[cavemanmoron]

Originally posted by: MadCowDisease
10/0

Undefined funnay.

🙁

0/10

he needs a better joke writer,
tell him t go see Rodney,In person.

 

[Stojakapimp]

The joke is supposed to be:

What do you get when you cross a mountain climber and a mosquito?

Nothing...you can't cross a scalar with a vector

 

[Kasper4christ]

Originally posted by: bootymac
Har har

 

[TheLonelyPhoenix]

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: GigaCluster
Note: the solution of the joke is not that the lion won't be able to get the mountain climber because the climber will be too high for the lion to reach. (*sigh*)

The beauty of these jokes is that when you tell them to a reasonably large audience, 4 or 5 people laugh. Then, you know who the smart people are. You get even more mileage from the joke when you have to explain to the people with the blank looks on their faces that they're simply not educated enough to understand.

Because, obviously, smart people are defined by their ability to understand math/science jokes. :roll:

 

[aplefka]

This thread has reached its nerd capacity.

 

[Proletariat]

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: GigaCluster
Note: the solution of the joke is not that the lion won't be able to get the mountain climber because the climber will be too high for the lion to reach. (*sigh*)

The beauty of these jokes is that when you tell them to a reasonably large audience, 4 or 5 people laugh. Then, you know who the smart people are. You get even more mileage from the joke when you have to explain to the people with the blank looks on their faces that they're simply not educated enough to understand.

Being good at math is the only form of intelligence apparently:roll:

 

[archcommus]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: archcommus

Originally posted by: Gibson486

Originally posted by: archcommus

Originally posted by: Orsorum

Originally posted by: archcommus
I took physics last year and am in AP Physics this year and I don't get the joke at all.

You don't need physics, you need elementary calculus, I think.

Well, I've done a year of AP Calc, too, still don't get it.

Not AP calc. You learn it when 1) you take linear algebra or 2) you take multivariable calculas (calc 3 in most schools).

Oh, so I wouldn't be expected to understand it, then. Well, good.

I learned it when I was in AP Physics in high school.

😛

There is algebra-based and calculus-based physics.

 

[cain]

Originally posted by: GigaCluster
Context: class discussion about vectors.

Why can't you cross a mountain climber with a lion?

Because he's a scaler!

this is like the one with what do you get when you cross an elephant and a lion.

you get a vector perpendicular to both

 

[Fingolfin269]

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: GigaCluster
Note: the solution of the joke is not that the lion won't be able to get the mountain climber because the climber will be too high for the lion to reach. (*sigh*)

The beauty of these jokes is that when you tell them to a reasonably large audience, 4 or 5 people laugh. Then, you know who the smart people are. You get even more mileage from the joke when you have to explain to the people with the blank looks on their faces that they're simply not educated enough to understand.

You make the assumption that the 4 or 5 people laugh because they are intelligent. If the punchline sucks and the 4 or 5 people laugh anyway then doesn't that just make them out to be laughing bobbleheads? Then again they could be the type of people who laugh at jokes they perceive to be 'intelligent jokes' because they feel they are the only ones who get the joke and therefore feel superior to the others in the group who do not laugh. Deep inside I'm laughing at those 4 or 5 because they don't yet grasp that the chicks in the group are definately not hooking up with them. 😛

 

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: GigaCluster
Note: the solution of the joke is not that the lion won't be able to get the mountain climber because the climber will be too high for the lion to reach. (*sigh*)

The beauty of these jokes is that when you tell them to a reasonably large audience, 4 or 5 people laugh. Then, you know who the smart people are. You get even more mileage from the joke when you have to explain to the people with the blank looks on their faces that they're simply educated enough not to care.

 

[Leper Messiah]

having taken neither physics, nor math beyond college trig, i still understood that joke...

 

[Kev]

Why can't you cross this joke with a vector?


Because this joke blows anus.

 

[mAdMaLuDaWg]

*groan*

 

[StageLeft]

Why can't physics professors get laid?

Because they suck.

Do you get that joke?

 

[Mr N8]

Math humor has never been funny.

 

[Trygve]

Originally posted by: Stojakapimp
The joke is supposed to be:

What do you get when you cross a mountain climber and a mosquito?

Nothing...you can't cross a scalar with a vector

That's the way I've always heard it. "Lion" makes a lot less sense. (Even if you read it as "line," that's still not quite the same thing as a vector.)

 

[pennylane]

A joke a professor told us awhile ago..

What do you get when you cross an elephant with a rhinoceros?

Elephant rhinoceros sin theta.

 

[Manchurian Candidate]

Originally posted by: GigaCluster
Context: class discussion about vectors.

Why can't you cross a mountain climber with a lion?

Because he's a scaler!

hell yes you can cross them. you get a vector perpendicular to both. i pwn j00

 

[Ready]

How about the moutain climber is imaginary

 

[Phoenix86]

Originally posted by: Orsorum

Originally posted by: iwantanewcomputer

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf

Originally posted by: yllus

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: GigaCluster
Note: the solution of the joke is not that the lion won't be able to get the mountain climber because the climber will be too high for the lion to reach. (*sigh*)

The beauty of these jokes is that when you tell them to a reasonably large audience, 4 or 5 people laugh. Then, you know who the smart people are. You get even more mileage from the joke when you have to explain to the people with the blank looks on their faces that they're simply not educated enough to understand.

I don't know about that - this was grade twelve material for me if not earlier (cross product, scalars vs. vectors). Isn't elementary physics of that level a requirement everywhere? The only reason people may not laugh is out of forgetfulness of that material.

I'm in my junior year of college and never got an education, and never will even with a masters or phd.

Fixed

:roll: I've taken close to 30 credits of college mathematics (through multivariable calc, probability, and linear algebra) and I understood the joke immediately, but in his defense, there is NO grounding for that sort of opinion. Someone can be considered educated and well-rounded without taking college physics.

See sig. We are all ignorant.

 

[pclstyle]

i got it, but it was incredibly stupid.

i tried to force a chuckle, i really did.

 

[EyeMWing]

At my school, we did all that in Trig, which is a pre-calc topic... But the actual pre-calc class doesn't cover it because it's a quick 1-semester condensed version of two independent math courses, Trig and College Alg. Instead of taking precalc, I took both of those