A Little Physics-Related Post As We Wait For The NCAA Prelims

And we'll get to the rest of the Golf Outing Results as soon as I have enough time to do it properly.

"He begins doing calculus problems in his head as soon as he awakens. He did calculus while driving in his car, while sitting in his living room, and while lying in his bed at night."

-Mary Louise Bell, in her divorce complaint against Richard Feynman.

Richard Feynman was self taught in calculus and had his own way of doing it. I'm not sure if he ever properly described his methods or taught anyone else his ways, although others have.  I would have struggled to get a "C" in it regardless.

“That book [Advanced Calculus, by Woods] also showed how to differentiate parameters under the integral sign – it’s a certain operation. It turns out that’s not taught very much in the universities; they don’t emphasize it. But I caught on how to use that method, and I used that one damn tool again and again. So because I was self-taught using that book, I had peculiar methods of doing integrals.”

Read more: http://www.physicsforums.com

“That book [Advanced Calculus, by Woods] also showed how to differentiate parameters under the integral sign – it’s a certain operation. It turns out that’s not taught very much in the universities; they don’t emphasize it. But I caught on how to use that method, and I used that one damn tool again and again. So because I was self-taught using that book, I had peculiar methods of doing integrals.”

Read more: http://www.physicsforums.com

“That book [Advanced Calculus, by Woods] also showed how to differentiate parameters under the integral sign – it’s a certain operation. It turns out that’s not taught very much in the universities; they don’t emphasize it. But I caught on how to use that method, and I used that one damn tool again and again. So because I was self-taught using that book, I had peculiar methods of doing integrals.”

Read more: http://www.physicsforums.com