The Geekest T-Shirt Of The Year.... So Far

[ZapperZ]

I tend to buy at least 1 geeky t-shirt a year, just for the heck of it. I can't not buy this one when I saw it last week at the Chicago's Adler Planetarium during their Members Night.

Most of the people I was with didn't get it. I mean, they knew that it has to be "Force", but they couldn't make the connection. So of course I had to explain to them that mv = p, and that the most general form of Newton's Second Law (F=ma) is F = dp/dt, which is F = d/dt (mv).

You could hear crickets after I explained that, and then followed by "oooohhh..." before they walked away shaking their heads.

Which meant that I just HAD to buy the shirt!

I wonder how many of the planetarium guests had the same puzzled look when they saw the shirt. Maybe that's why the shirt was on SALE! :)

Zz.

 

[phinds]

Which meant that I just HAD to buy the shirt!

Yep.

 

[berkeman]

You could hear crickets after I explained that, and then followed by "oooohhh..." before they walked away shaking their heads.

LOL. At least you tried!

I saw this t-shirt in my FaceBook feed yesterday, and got a good laugh out of it. At least EEs and Physicists can appreciate it...

https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/1...eiF7WtlHKcqHN4l2EjxoCtdUQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

 

[RPinPA]

I tend to buy at least 1 geeky t-shirt a year, just for the heck of it. I can't not buy this one when I saw it last week at the Chicago's Adler Planetarium during their Members Night.

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Most of the people I was with didn't get it. I mean, they knew that it has to be "Force", but they couldn't make the connection. So of course I had to explain to them that mv = p, and that the most general form of Newton's Second Law (F=ma) is F = dp/dt, which is F = d/dt (mv).

And they used the vector expression, which somehow makes it even geekier.

 

[neilparker62]

Here's a wacky (and yes - appallingly precocious!) T-shirt idea I thought of and my sister-in-law actually designed. It goes with the Insights article I wrote on the Balmer Alpha line. The pots at the top are the family's unflattering opinion of me!

 

[robphy]

At the MIT bookstore...
https://store.thecoop.com/-and-34-and-god-said-and-34-tee-shirt/ecomm-product-detail/2409

which is not quite the earlier design from 1977 [in differential form]
http://museum.mit.edu/nom150/entries/1308

According to a comment in the previous url, the above in differential form
appears to be a modification of this 1963 shirt
( http://tech.mit.edu/V83/PDF/V83-N11.pdf [page 3] )

 

[gmax137]

Where is the model showing off the 1963 shirt now? Probably close to 77 years old...

And what is a "'snow' gift"?

 

[Bystander]

"'snow' gift"?

"Snow," transitive slang verb; to "blitz," as in "snow under" with erudition.

 

[robphy]

https://www.cafepress.com/+bobs_school_of_quantum_mechanics_bbq_apron,64349543

When I was a summer student at Fermilab, I found this "ad" for "Bob's School of Quantum Mechanics" (i think it's originally from the "Purdue Engineering Magazine")... i think it was on someone's wall. So, I photocopied it... then later scanned it and digitally touched up what I could. I made a copy available on my university website when I was in grad school. I see it has made the rounds... and is now in someone's CafePress store.
(Someone must have a higher quality copy... maybe someone at Purdue can look though old issues of the magazine.)

 

[ZapperZ]

I just bought 2 more geeky t-shirts.

I'm going to wear this tomorrow since we will be doing Ohm's law.

And then, in a few weeks, when we will do magnetic induction and force on currents, I'll be wearing this!

See all the things we instructors do for our students?



Zz.

 

[gmax137]

I don't think I've ever seen that second, "gang sign" shirt. That's really good!

EDIT: I looked for them on line. Quite a few of the offerings are done with a left hand

 

[ZapperZ]

I don't think I've ever seen that second, "gang sign" shirt. That's really good!

EDIT: I looked for them on line. Quite a few of the offerings are done with a left hand

There IS the Fleming Left Hand Rule, so that is correct as well.

Zz.

 

[berkeman]

I'm going to wear this tomorrow since we will be doing Ohm's law.

I have a blue T-shirt with that message text, but no big Omega symbol. I got weird enough looks the first time I wore it to work that I decided not to do that anymore. It's now a workout shirt...

(The engineers who saw it at work smiled or smirked, but all the support folks were a bit intimidated by it, not understanding the humor...)

 

[fresh_42]

Someone should print ## 2.5\, k\Omega## on a t-shirt or 2 500 Ω