Via BB comes a link to a comic called xkcd. I can only imagine that the domain name comes from a valiant attempt at key mashing to find a short dot-com name not already taken, but I'm smitten by the humor.
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Thanks for the link, I'd never seen that one before.
I'll forgive them saying "Newton's laws" when they should've written "a momentum balance", but "rotating system" really should've been "spherical coordinate system".
Atmospheric and oceanic folk like to use rotational reference frames since their subject rotates... but if you derive the Navier-Stokes equation in cylindrical coordinates without assuming a rotational frame you'll still have all the neat terms like the Coriolis force showing up.
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Thanks for the link, I'd never seen that one before.
I'll forgive them saying "Newton's laws" when they should've written "a momentum balance", but "rotating system" really should've been "spherical coordinate system".
Atmospheric and oceanic folk like to use rotational reference frames since their subject rotates... but if you derive the Navier-Stokes equation in cylindrical coordinates without assuming a rotational frame you'll still have all the neat terms like the Coriolis force showing up.
But, uh, yeah - the comics are funny!
Posted by: Sean Montgomery | July 20, 2006 10:03 AM
Argh! Not "cylindrical", "spherical". Gotta proofread my own work, grrrr.
When are you going to write some more of your own comics, Avi? You've got the knack.
Posted by: Sean Montgomery | July 21, 2006 8:45 AM