Can someone good at math explain this comic to me?
11-25-2010 at 02:50 PM
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i doubt any of you understand Heinsenburg's uncertainty principle at all so sthu.  |
Exactly. Well, I mean, this isn't 'sthu'ing, but I agree. |
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11-25-2010 at 07:41 PM
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Yeah, exactly. Everyone "understands" quantum mechanics a la Chem 1A03. Unfortunately, there isn't much "understanding" involved in that at all.
That being said, the math isn't incredibly complicated or anything (by that I mean that you'd probably have a bit of an idea what's going on after the 2nd year math courses), from what's written on the 'derivation' section of its wiki article, haha - however, that said, there's a whole lot of background math to know - mainly "basic" differential equations (and calculus) and linear algebra, but also some more complicated stuff like Fourier transforms. Then, of course, the physics-intuition is a whole different matter. Then, I suppose, after understanding all that, someone would be able to understand the Uncertainty principle (I don't, so I'm probably wrong here)
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Indeed.
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i doubt any of you understand Heinsenburg's uncertainty principle at all so sthu. |
Upset? You didn't even spell the guy's name correctly. |
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11-25-2010 at 11:50 PM
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I doubt anyone really understands Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. It's like Feynmann said, those who think they understand Quantum Mechanics probably don't...and anyone who comes close is probably afraid of it.
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