• billwashere@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    And I had no idea what the fourth derivative was called so I had to look it up. It’s called snap or jounce.

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      4 days ago

      And fifth/sixth derivatives are crackle and pop because some physicists thought it would be funny to have it be “snap crackle and pop”

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      4 days ago

      I remember when my calculus professor offhand mentioned these and jerk. He had a really dry sense of humor, so I didn’t realize that he wasn’t joking with us (the class) until like two semesters later.

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          3 days ago

          If I remember right, it wasn’t on any test. Those tests were all problem solving, and none of the problems had derivatives deeper than acceleration. It was awhile ago though, I could be misremembering

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            18 hours ago

            Well, it might just have been an out of syllabus thing considering I was not taught that in class and only learnt it while having fun somewhere.