A straight line (y=x) can be written as a sum over sinusoids, known as a Fourier Series.pic.twitter.com/Obii1qd62T
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a neat way and .. if people are curious/want to know more they can pursue it by either asking questions or going to learn it on their own.. Presumably, you know this and that throwing a bunch of conditions at people isn't the best way to engage people
Is teaching kids Newtonian mechanics fibbing, or should we also tell them that it's only valid in the domain of weak gravitational force (i mean spacetime curvature).. but actually /that's/ not quite true when we consider QM as well.. i wish you good luck with that curriculum
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I teach all my Twitter kids about curved spacetime in the fully nonlinear regime.
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and forget the simple harmonic oscillator, and go right to Jacobi Elliptic Integrals
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I don’t have strong feelings here but maybe Alex’s point is that only a very small modification, such as adding the word “segment” or talking about a sawtooth curve, would make the statement 100% true, so the justification for not doing so isn’t clear. 1/
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By contrast, correcting Newtonian mechanics is conceptually hard. But maybe the average reader will have interpreted “line” as “line segment” anyway, especially given what happens at the edges of the animation. 2/2
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Dont get triggered.. mathematican things
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