L. Marcus Posted December 6, 2015 Report Share Posted December 6, 2015 Amazing that they work, really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 7, 2015 Report Share Posted December 7, 2015 Anytime there's cylindrical symmetry! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 7, 2015 Report Share Posted December 7, 2015 Howzabout conical symmetry? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 7, 2015 Report Share Posted December 7, 2015 ... I have to look at that carefully, actually. Depends on the boundary conditions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 8, 2015 Report Share Posted December 8, 2015 ... The cone has infinite height. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 8, 2015 Report Share Posted December 8, 2015 No, I was thinking more like, the base is in contact with a heat source at 100 degrees, while the rest of the surface is held at 0 degrees, and the task is to work out the temperature variation within the solid body of the cone. Both height and base diameter are finite and known. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 8, 2015 Report Share Posted December 8, 2015 Yeah, OK, it's still Bessel's equation and its solutions, so it's still Bessel functions. I needed my morning coffee before I could answer that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 8, 2015 Report Share Posted December 8, 2015 Coffee is good. Coffee is the lifeblood of civilization. Coffee tastes like warm water with ashes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 8, 2015 Report Share Posted December 8, 2015 I'm sorry, what is this 'coffee' of which you speak? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 8, 2015 Report Share Posted December 8, 2015 A beverage for those who cannot grasp the civilizationedness of tea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 8, 2015 Report Share Posted December 8, 2015 Collect the beans from a certain bush, rip their skin and flesh off exposing the bare seed within. Let that bake in the harsh pitiless sun for many days, then compound its agony by roasting it over a slow fire. Crush that scorched remnant between wheels of stone or steel, and drown those deflowered, violated fragments in near-boiling water, extracting, finally, the vital essences within, which finally you drink while still warm. That's coffee. Multi-stage necromantic ritual performed on innocent shrubs that powers American civilization. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 8, 2015 Report Share Posted December 8, 2015 And amazingly, despite the barbarism of the preparation procedure, it was not discovered by the Aztecs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 8, 2015 Report Share Posted December 8, 2015 Coffee is an Old World plant. Chocolate is New World. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 8, 2015 Report Share Posted December 8, 2015 And boy, was chocolate tortured! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 8, 2015 Report Share Posted December 8, 2015 To say nothing of the rain forest in which it grew. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 8, 2015 Report Share Posted December 8, 2015 All those poor birdies and whatnot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 8, 2015 Report Share Posted December 8, 2015 Collect the beans from a certain bush, rip their skin and flesh off exposing the bare seed within. Let that bake in the harsh pitiless sun for many days, then compound its agony by roasting it over a slow fire. Crush that scorched remnant between wheels of stone or steel, and drown those deflowered, violated fragments in near-boiling water, extracting, finally, the vital essences within, which finally you drink while still warm. That's coffee. Multi-stage necromantic ritual performed on innocent shrubs that powers American civilization. I think this qualifies as Mundane Made Awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 9, 2015 Report Share Posted December 9, 2015 Maybe I'll try describing the act of taking a physics exam in the same style. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 9, 2015 Report Share Posted December 9, 2015 We had an exam question once, on someone spilling hot fudge on exposed flesh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 9, 2015 Report Share Posted December 9, 2015 Was the correct answer, "scream loudly and repeatedly"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 9, 2015 Report Share Posted December 9, 2015 Tsk. That was just one of the symptoms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 9, 2015 Report Share Posted December 9, 2015 Hey, you didn't give me the actual question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 9, 2015 Report Share Posted December 9, 2015 It was just something simple, on the line of why it's worse to spill fudge than boiling water. I think the examiner threw it in to lighten the mood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 9, 2015 Report Share Posted December 9, 2015 Higher temperature and therefore larger heat content? Greater viscosity so longer exposure time on skin? Freezing in place, extending thermal exposure even more, while binding the foreign agent to the injured tissue, necessitating removal which threatens additional injury? Chemical reactions concurrent with the injured area as the burn happens? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 9, 2015 Report Share Posted December 9, 2015 Plus the water evaporates, while fudge does not. Even if it may appear to do so at family christmas dinner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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