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@01shuklabhay wdym greek alphabet (this is english)? sigma has the 19th, 9th, 7th, 13th, and 1st letter of the english alphabet.

@backslashvarphi no sir like the 18th letter of the greek alphabet sigma

bruh i thought F was ma this whole time??

@dumbtillidie @01shuklabhay no F=ma=kx which means m=k and a=x.

@backslashvarphi @01shuklabhay k/m however you denote it, yes is the spring constant but the spring constant is not mass. it has units of (kg)(s^(-2)) whereas the displacement in hookes law is meters. if you wanna get real technical the eq on the book is also analogous to the others, in that F=factor x factor

@01shuklabhay sigma? is that like a sigma male?

@backslashvarphi if you want to get reeeally technical you can do sigma F = qE + q(vxB) and then match to F=ma :)

@01shuklabhay hookes law is still just F=ma though :p. m is the spring constant and a is displacement

@backslashvarphi wait until u discover hookes law

@photonphiend @REALFREEDOMCAT bro what broida is so beautiful (on the outside)

@backslashvarphi @REALFREEDOMCAT Naur fr why is our building so ugly

this is ucsb’s campus

@photonphiend @REALFREEDOMCAT even when there’s no laser there’s still no windows ☹️

@REALFREEDOMCAT @backslashvarphi No not in basement just no windows cuz laser and stuff

@REALFREEDOMCAT @photonphiend nah it happens inside of (basically) basements bc the ppl that designed the buildings hate God

@backslashvarphi @photonphiend wait does all qm stuff happen in basements? like for em noise or vibrations or?

yes read susskind to get The Sauce. honestly then u can do problems from griffiths and read thru some of the examples as a reference. after that i think reading the beginning of sakurai’s QM textbook is great. he does a much much better job than griffiths of explaining the formalism. i’ve never read shankar but i hear good things.

@backslashvarphi wait who sakurai or just what book actually? i thought we should start with Suss

@REALFREEDOMCAT i still have a big soft spot for griffiths quantum tho. but objectively the first 3 chapters of sakurai are like way better to learn from once u understand the basics of the sauce

@REALFREEDOMCAT no griffiths e&m is goated (except when he talks about relativity imo). it’s griffiths quantum that has some problems.

@photonphiend this school is so beautiful and i forget that i live inside a beach resort bc im too used to the windowless rooms of The Lab

@backslashvarphi No way

@mil0theminer wait this is cool why hate

Bro she is NOT going out with u😭✌️

my friend went thrifting and came back with this

@humphilomath @fishPointer dw i’m goated at proompting

@backslashvarphi @fishPointer Ngl, it is in your interest not to make your background salient if you need a job outside of physics…

SF is like arkham asylum for people who can code

@humphilomath @fishPointer so true

@backslashvarphi @fishPointer Ngl, our crowd are the worst coders though - correct but inefficient codebases everywhere…

@REALFREEDOMCAT not even kidding i think everyone should take l theanine

@backslashvarphi going all in

l-theanine is The Vitamin btw

@REALFREEDOMCAT yes unironically

@backslashvarphi but will it turn any goon into a varphi