...that you could only have one post per day?
...that your posts had to make any sense at all?
...that classical dynamics is useful in any shape or form?
I'm sure someone did, but there have to be better things in the world to quote people on.
Speaking of quotes, I think my favorite for the day was: "He gets annoyed when others talk whilst he's interrupting" - source - 'The Little Book of One Liners' sitting on my bookshelf that I picked from a Big Bazaar during my last trip to Bombay (Mumbai still doesn't just roll off the tongue - we're just creatures of habit - is my excuse).
A hike to a haunted mansion is on the agenda for tomorrow. Plus lots of staring at homework problems and blank pages and unanswered questions on class forums. If there's time, maybe I'll be able to review my notes and determine how to keep Euler, Lagrange, Hamilton, Goldstein, Greenwood et al straight.
I did learn a new fun word the other day - Brachistochrone. Apparently, the word comes from Greek brachistos meaning 'shortest' and chrone, meaning, of course, time. The word refers to the famous 'roller coaster problem' in which a path of fastest descent has to be determined from one point to the other.
Who said grad level aerospace classes only introduced students to knowledge, equations, and sleepless nights?
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