Physicians: "It's all vector addition and differatials?"
Mathematicians: "Always has been."
this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2025
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Break Gas? Never heard that expression before. I always thought it was "break wind". ππ¨
There's this Finnish joke that doesn't translate well, about a physicist who got pulled over by police. "Uh, I guess I accelerated a bit."
Tap for spoiler
(A particle accelerator is a machine that accelerates little bits. Do you get it now?)
So normal people don't have an education? It is brake, how do you people keep making this mistake?
Likely something to do with English being a secondary language to the vast majority of the world...
Afaik native speakers make such mistakes more often, since they learned far more of the language by hearing than by reading
It's an Alfa, "Break" might be the correct terminology /s
Joke of course, I love Alfa's!
Well, I think you answered your own question π
Brake*
Sorry, just bugged me ><
depends on if you're being followed by a cyber truck too closely, or not.
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Brake.
Petrol. Gas isn't even a gas.
Ok, then how about the directional circle, solid pedal, and liquid pedal?
They're all just vector appliers.
But it was originally derived from coal gas back in the 3rd quarter of the 19th century, when the first internal combustion engine for transportation application was being developed.
*Gasoline or diesel. Petroleum has to be refined first before use in a car.
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Is it an accelerator? Or is it a jerk pedal? Technically the gas pedal controls the change in acceleration, right?
I definitely have friends
No, if there is constant pressure on the accelerator, there is a constant acceleration on the car.
The jerk comes with the rate of change of pressure on the pedal (e.g. if you stomp on it)
That would make the driver the jerk π€
Technically the gas pedal controls the change in acceleration, right?
Technically it controls the amount of air and/or fuel delivered to the engine (in a gas engine, the pedal directly controls airflow; in a diesel engine it directly controls fuel flow)
A valve controller, yes
Acceleration in physics terms just means a change in velocity. Velocity is speed in a given direction. The steering wheel, gas pedal, and brake pedal all accelerate the vehicle.
Acceleration in physics terms just means a change in velocity. Velocity is speed in a given direction
They definitely know that, given that they know that change in acceleration is called jerk
And I had no idea what the fourth derivative was called so I had to look it up. Itβs called snap or jounce.
And fifth/sixth derivatives are crackle and pop because some physicists thought it would be funny to have it be βsnap crackle and popβ
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Far left pedal is the clutch, not a second "break"
No, that's the anti-theft device.
No, it's just a foot rest
I'm on mobile and could be wrong, but this picture looks like it's an automatic and that's a foot rest, not a clutch (nearly all Fords have a large plate like that in that spot to rest your left foot)
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If you use it wrong enough then βbreakβ becomes the proper spelling.
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Can you fucking learn homonyms if you're going to make an entire ass meme about something?
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Okay student, now turn the accelerator and feather the accelerator as you accelerate into the curve, then press the accelerator to accelerate your acceleration out the curve.
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No, one of them is the "don't accelerate" pedal you use to switch gears.
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Love this
~ physicist
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