#physics teacher

[scienceisdope]

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[servaaal51]

Laurits quick ref, ft December 2022 version. I made them a little shorter and adjusted some color values. They were supposed to be 6’04” at some point, but that’s virtually impossible for a person with cerebral palsy… Also overtime, their ears got bigger, then smaller around mid 2023.

Laurits works as a high school physics teacher, though sometimes streams video games in their free time.

I think Laurits was initially an experiment Mii for Nintendo Switch Sports, as I gave them face items that I don’t use or pair very often at the time.

[alien-in-washington]

My physics teacher purposely calls on the students who don't understand the concept just to get mad at them for not understanding

Then she ignores me because she knows I explain it in simpler terms

[jaysons-alt]

My physics teacher, in the middle of a discussion about projectile motion, pulled out a Nerf gun and shot the guy sleeping in the back, squarely in the forehead, from across the room, as an example of how the foreword motion of a projectile doesn’t change unless it hits something.

She was my favorite teacher, for obvious reasons.

[beware-the-metacrane]

While making example images for a lab worksheet on Center of Mass concepts, I made an unfortunate realization: I'm hitting that uncomfortable point in my teaching career where I am officially out of touch with the phrases and culture of the new generation, yet too "millenial" to connect-via-meme with my coworkers.

I am thoroughly stuck in the internet wasteland of my childhood. Nothing I do or say will ever be relevant again.

[kasienda]

Hot take: Charon is not a moon of Pluto.

Instead, Pluto and Charon are, collectively, a dwarf double-planet that share four moons.

I personally don't think that's a controversial take at all. Charon definitely does NOT purely orbit Pluto, but rather Charon and Pluto each orbit the center of mass between them (which is closer to Pluto because it is bigger), which qualifies them to be a binary system.

And those four moons don't orbit Pluto either. They orbit the center of mass created by Pluto and Charon.

Stuff you read might say otherwise, but I think this would just be due to the fact that we didn't have a clear picture of the Pluto system until 2015 when the New Horizons probe got there to take a closer picture, and we may not have realized before that Pluto-Charon system was a binary system. And it takes awhile for all the textbooks to get updated and for even people in the field to be aware of the reclassification.

Seriously!! Look at those moons!! They are crazy!

The Earth-moon system is actually ALMOST a binary system as well, but the center of mass between the earth and the moon is still within the earth so it doesn't qualify as a true binary system. BUT it is the center of mass (the yellow dot in the first picture below, and the green star in the second) of the Earth-moon system that orbits the Sun. The earth kind've wobbles around that point as we make our way around the sun.

[miuamor]

my physics teacher really just straight up told the literal best student in our class that she’s just a simple and basic student. miss gurll what in everything people have ever prayed to

[crowdepoubelle]

My physics teacher be like: set them homework on material that they haven't even covered yet to confuse them, yes yes, excellent plan...