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#11498

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Feb. 2, 2023, 3:30 p.m.

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//playing video of cat playing with ball in track to illustrate path integration Schwartz: As you learned back in Freshman Physics, dogs know calculus. Schwartz: Cats know calculus too, they just don't do it.

#11488

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Feb. 1, 2023, 8:54 a.m.

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Schwartz: What do you get when you cross a mountain climber with a mosquito? Schwartz: Nothing! You can’t cross a scalar with a vector! Schwartz: You can do anything students, except cross scalars with vectors!

#11474

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Jan. 30, 2023, 9:18 a.m.

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// video of final fantasy shows up on the boxlight Schwartz: That’s what I had on while I was grading for 13 hours on Friday.

#11473

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Jan. 30, 2023, 9:13 a.m.

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Schwartz: Due date is the same as the deadline. Schwartz: I can’t do that, so deadline is two minutes after the due date! Schwartz: Problem solved!

#11458

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Jan. 23, 2023, 4:50 p.m.

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Andy: How old is Dessa? Schwartz: She's turning 14 this year. She's an old lady. Joshua Wang: So just like my sister!

#11457

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Jan. 23, 2023, 3:59 p.m.

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Schwartz: Dessa's birthday is on the same date as my brother's. So every year, I call my brother, and I say: Schwartz: "Justin, it's a very special day today. It's Dessa's birthday!" Schwartz: He has a friend with the same birthday as me, so every year, on my birthday, he calls me, and says: Schwartz: "Jeremy, it's a very special day today. It's [friend's name]'s birthday!"

#11439

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Jan. 18, 2023, 5:27 p.m.

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//after Schwartz tells about incidents relating to leaving campus at lunch River: So they notice that students go shoplifting when they leave campus during lunch, but what's stopping me from shoplifting out of school hours? Schwartz: You might want to rephrase that and talk about "a student" shoplifting ...

#11405

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Jan. 10, 2023, 5:26 p.m.

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Schwartz: The first example is finding the volume of a sphere with triple integration. Schwartz: It's fine, that works. Let's do the harder example. //Hammond bursts in Hammond: Lies! All lies! //later Hammond, holding up a type of laptop: The problem with these is you can't trust students not to steal them. Hammond: You know I'm joking, right? Don't go home and say "the teacher said that we're not trustworthy!" Schwartz: Well, of course they're not trustworthy. They're teenagers. Hammond: Ageist! Schwartz: Developmentalist! Some people are 30 and they're still "teenagers". //later, Hammond examining the whiteboard's ρ^2 sin φ dρ dθ dφ Hammond: There's too much Greek here. //later, Schwartz drawing and explaining a 3D shape Schwartz: This is an ice-cream cone. Hammond: No, that's the Eye of Sauron! //later Schwartz: Let's not blindfold our ice-cream cone.

#11382

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Jan. 4, 2023, 5:57 p.m.

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Schwartz: Here are three examples I like to do. And by me, I mean you.

#11381

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Jan. 4, 2023, 5:55 p.m.

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Schwartz: Can you agree that PIP^(-1) is I? I is PIP^(-1)? I am PIP^(-1)? Stephen: pip install joke