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#13690

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Dec. 4, 2025, 3:14 p.m.

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Schwartz: Just like in Monty Python when they throw a hand grenade at the big rabbit to turn it into itty bitty bits Andrew Zhao: Just like Nahom Schwartz: What? Nahom is not a rabbit? Andrew: Yes he is. I asked his sister.

#13689

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Dec. 4, 2025, 3:01 p.m.

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//Talking about how radians are unitless Eric: You can express angular velocity in Hertz. Radians per second, therefore Hertz. Sai: That really Hertz my ears

#13421

1111

Sept. 3, 2024, 9:30 a.m.

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Schwartz: "...and that wraps up [our lesson on lines]. Any questions?" // Class is silent. Schwartz: "Great! Let's blow up the planet." Schwartz: "Things in math escalate quickly!"

P2 Multivar. Schwartz finished talking about generalizing lines in 2D to higher dimensions, and proceeded to use the example of Earth "colliding" with an asteroid to explain collision vs. intersection..

multivar, schwartz

#12493

911

Nov. 9, 2023, 8:07 p.m.

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// 9th period multivar, 3:19; people are packing up Schwartz: why are you packing up? class isn't over yet! // sentence is punctuated by ringing of bell

#12451

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Nov. 3, 2023, 3:37 p.m.

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Schwartz: Any questions? Schwartz: I don’t know why I’m asking for questions. You shouldn’t have any questions. This isn’t related to class at all.

#11612

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Feb. 27, 2023, 12:43 p.m.

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Schwartz: Your exam will be on march 6 and 7. Schwartz: I keep thinking: "there's something happening on march 6 and 7, but I can't remember what it is." Schwartz: I remembered this morning -- that's the day the yoghurt I was eating expires. Schwartz: We can take an exam on the day my yoghurt expires.

#11585

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Feb. 16, 2023, 7:09 p.m.

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//Schwartz holds up a large plastic hoop Schwartz: I have a stuff-detector. It detects stuff. When stuff goes thru it, it will detect the stuff. Class: Wow //Schwartz opens the window and holds up stuff-detector to it Schwartz: This is a stuff-provider. It brings in stuff, like wind. The stuff-detector will go "waah!" [wiggles hoop excitedly] Class: Wow //later Schwartz: I could fit the stuff-detector in the window, if only this bottle [on the water-dispenser] weren't here. Schwartz: It's almost empty -- does anyone need water? //various students take water excitedly //eventually one of them takes the last of it, Schwartz removes the bottle in amazement Schwartz, mounting hoop in bottle's place: Now I have a stuff-detector stand! //Entire class erupts in thunderous applause

#11535

1212

Feb. 8, 2023, 7:35 p.m.

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Schwartz: We don't need data! We don't need experiments! Schwartz: We can prove, from pure theory, that work over a path is the difference in kinetic energy. Schwartz: Take that, science!

but i thought you said maths is strong and independent and don't need no real-world applications

mathphys, multivar, schwartz

#11498

1212

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.

#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.