Flight delayed after passenger becomes suspicious after noticing a mysterious equation - Polidicks

-snip, read the article to the very end this time and noticed my comment was redundant, oops-

[QUOTE=Firefox42;50281069]What the hell was her reasoning behind this? What possible harm could you cause from writing something?[/QUOTE] Paranoid, uneducated hicks

Not surprised. Differential equations is upper division math that only mathematicians, engineers, math oriented business and economics majors, and few types of science majors can understand. In my chem 1B course, people freaked out when the professor pulled out an integral to prove a formula. Calculus 2 isn't a requirement for biology or chemistry and that's well below differential equations. I'm more surprised she took it for arabic and not an alien language

I can't imagine what she would think if he had a laptop and was programming.

[QUOTE=pointyface;50282086]Not surprised. Differential equations is upper division math that only mathematicians, engineers, math oriented business and economics majors, and few types of science majors can understand. In my chem 1B course, people freaked out when the professor pulled out an integral to prove a formula. Calculus 2 isn't a requirement for biology or chemistry and that's well below differential equations. I'm more surprised she took it for arabic and not an alien language[/QUOTE] and physics !

Maybe she thought once they were in the air he'd divide by zero? :v:

[QUOTE=pointyface;50282086]Not surprised. Differential equations is upper division math that only mathematicians, engineers, math oriented business and economics majors, and few types of science majors can understand. In my chem 1B course, people freaked out when the professor pulled out an integral to prove a formula. Calculus 2 isn't a requirement for biology or chemistry and that's well below differential equations. I'm more surprised she took it for arabic and not an alien language[/QUOTE] How the hell do you do chemistry without any maths, unless you're doing literally nothing but organic chemistry you're bound to see some maths at some point.

[QUOTE=Headhumpy;50282850]How the hell do you do chemistry without any maths, unless you're doing literally nothing but organic chemistry you're bound to see some maths at some point.[/QUOTE] You only need algebra 2 to take chemistry and pretty much all general chemistry is is basic algebra

[QUOTE=pointyface;50283583]You only need algebra 2 to take chemistry and pretty much all general chemistry is is basic algebra[/QUOTE] I'm not talking about prerequisites or whatever, I'm talking about actual understanding of chemistry.

[I]Plot of math disruption delays flight[/I]

[I]Love[/I] how he just blames Donald Trump (if you read the Washington Post article)... Yeah good going mate, make yourself look real smart.

[QUOTE=Judas;50281870]i'd rather be dead than live in fear[/QUOTE] Good for you big boy. What about the other 100+ people on that plane who don't feel that way.

[QUOTE=Headhumpy;50282850]How the hell do you do chemistry without any maths, unless you're doing literally nothing but organic chemistry you're bound to see some maths at some point.[/QUOTE] No you need math for ochem too, I mean while you probably would never have to, IR uses peak integration, there's bond length calcs, and some other stuff. If you are really smart you can even predict the actual structure of a molecule by knowing elements and bond lengths and angles but that's tedious As for the article, that passenger is a dumbass

This guy must be working for the terrorist organisation Al Gebra.

[img]http://i.imgur.com/gj0JUMH.png[/img] Hmm....

[QUOTE=pointyface;50282086]Not surprised. Differential equations is upper division math that only mathematicians, engineers, math oriented business and economics majors, and few types of science majors can understand. In my chem 1B course, people freaked out when the professor pulled out an integral to prove a formula. Calculus 2 isn't a requirement for biology or chemistry and that's well below differential equations. I'm more surprised she took it for arabic and not an alien language[/QUOTE] Differential equations are covered in advanced high school maths and some calculus is often required for most college majors these days. Besides to the untrained eye (her clearly) it would like pretty similar to algebra...

[QUOTE=Sableye;50283910]No you need math for ochem too, I mean while you probably would never have to, IR uses peak integration, there's bond length calcs, and some other stuff. If you are really smart you can even predict the actual structure of a molecule by knowing elements and bond lengths and angles but that's tedious As for the article, that passenger is a dumbass[/QUOTE] It definitely doesn't require anything beyond elementary algebra (calculating mass of reagents to use, calculating yields etc.). Also, you don't really use peak integration in IR, it's used more in NMR. The elements and bond angles thing you're talking about is crystallography, which isn't really used in organic chemistry. Structure determination is largely done using NMR. The only place where you'd see actual maths coming out is when you're doing physical organic or when you're running methodology experiments. The rest is basically drawing structures and figuring out where they react and how. But yes, the passenger is an idiot. She'd have to not seen maths [I]and[/I] actual Arabic before to confuse the two. Even the most arcane mathematics still looks like mathematics to the untrained eye.

[QUOTE=Headhumpy;50286174]It definitely doesn't require anything beyond elementary algebra (calculating mass of reagents to use, calculating yields etc.). Also, you don't really use peak integration in IR, it's used more in NMR. The elements and bond angles thing you're talking about is crystallography, which isn't really used in organic chemistry. Structure determination is largely done using NMR. The only place where you'd see actual maths coming out is when you're doing physical organic or when you're running methodology experiments. The rest is basically drawing structures and figuring out where they react and how. But yes, the passenger is an idiot. She'd have to not seen maths [I]and[/I] actual Arabic before to confuse the two. Even the most arcane mathematics still looks like mathematics to the untrained eye.[/QUOTE] I'm not even specialized in chemistry but I did some kinetic chemistry and it's basically differential equations with a bit of chemistry sprinkled on it. Differential equations are hardly advanced maths and are used in pretty much any type of science.

[QUOTE=_Axel;50286216]I'm not even specialized in chemistry but I did some kinetic chemistry and it's basically differential equations with a bit of chemistry sprinkled on it. Differential equations are hardly advanced maths and are used in pretty much any type of science.[/QUOTE] Kinetics is considered physical chemistry, which isn't usually encountered when doing organic chemistry.