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u/dansssssss Jan 26 '23
I dont think most people know the first one (Weight=mass*gravity)
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u/No_Release7617 Jan 26 '23 edited Jan 26 '23
Yeah if he used the F=m * a (force=mass * acceleration) people would know it a lot better
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u/Crazybeanzzz12 Jan 26 '23
Every time I see this equation, I think full metal alchemist
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u/Bachlead Jan 26 '23
But it shouldn't use an other letter. You can just use F with a name like w or g. No need to create confusion with work
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u/LunchTwey Jan 26 '23
I always think of MatPat, i forget what episode it was but he just said he remembers it as saying FMA out loud like fmah
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u/Spacepirateattack Jan 26 '23
It's the same equation
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u/PieselPL Jan 26 '23
Ok now I know, it just used in other symboles in my country
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u/Hexidian Jan 26 '23
I’m not sure anybody actually uses W for weight. W is usually work
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u/Confident-Money140 Jan 26 '23
Also you shouldn’t use weight, you should use mass
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u/xxRANGER_Mxx Professional Dumbass Jan 26 '23
Weight is a useful value
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u/Confident-Money140 Jan 26 '23
Not in f=ma
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u/OnlyChemical6339 Jan 27 '23
Weight substitutes for force, not mass. Weight is the force applied by gravity
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u/CyanProphecy Jan 26 '23
It depends on language too tho. So we can know the formula but with other letters
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u/Makaroni23 Jan 26 '23
I figured we use G=mg here
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u/Bright-Leg8276 Jan 26 '23
Wait a minute isn't it G m1m2/r2
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u/ilehe Jan 26 '23
Isnt it W = F * deltaX (deltaX = distance) and F being with second law of newton: F*a which means it would be W = F * a * deltaX
For me W is like Work = Force * distance
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u/ramses_IIG Jan 27 '23
I don't think you know "g" stands for free fall acceleration and not gravity
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u/dansssssss Jan 27 '23
I did know "g" stands for acceleration due to gravity but felt it would be too long to be placed in the brackets
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u/Bachlead Jan 26 '23
Yes but the symbol of weight is normally Fg or Fw to avoid confusion with work
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u/Xfors-Pakistan Halal Mode Jan 26 '23
Formula one race car :(
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u/canigohomepleaze Jan 26 '23
Y= mx + b???
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u/abfgern_ Jan 26 '23
I was always taught y=mx+c
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u/altermeetax Linux User Jan 26 '23
y=mx+q here
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u/IncreaseAcceptable31 Jan 26 '23
y=mx+(whatever you want this letter to be, it’s just a number, you could do ð if you wanted to)
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u/CheeseLoverMax memer Jan 26 '23
That’s weird because the variable C stands for constant when doing intergrals
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u/Kasetonix Jan 26 '23
Wait why m? I always had these kinds of formulas as
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u/DifferenceFormer2356 Jan 26 '23
It's just the variable we use for slope. The variable itself doesn't matter, but I guess mathematicians had to come up in agreement on a variable and decided to choose m for standard graphing.
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u/Cobaltive Jan 26 '23
This is well known but even 1 7 year old has heard about e=mc²
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u/awesomeflowman Jan 26 '23
Okay but the line formula is like 7th grade math while e=mc2 is like 9th grade physics. I don't see why more people would know e=mc2. I don't even know what it means.
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u/Skeptic_lemon Jan 26 '23
We're searching for the most known formula not the most understood one.
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u/awesomeflowman Jan 26 '23
Yeah but I heard of y=mx+b about 5 years before e=mc2, which doesn't seem to be uncommon.
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u/Cobaltive Jan 26 '23
Because whoever that searched Einstein has seen this formula. I myself saw it while i was 6
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u/The_GamingNstar Jan 26 '23
It's f=ma
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u/Cobaltive Jan 26 '23
For educated ones it is. But even a 7 year old has heard of e=mc².
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u/Veqetable Jan 26 '23
Not true, F=ma is much more heard of then W=mg, I didn't even know about it till physics class
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u/Flashburn965 Jan 26 '23
Thats because W=mg is stupid, W is work. Use F or Fg to not sound stupid.
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How can you even be this confident? You're not a god. You're a human like the rest of us. There has never been a survey about this. We have 8 billion people on earth.
Like even if you want to somehow estimate; people have worked with Newton's second law in school. For Mass-Energy equivalence you either have to actually study the course in university or hear from it in different forms of media in which, still, is the case for Newton's second law as well.
You being this confident is irrational.
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u/Upbeat_Intern663 Jan 26 '23
Ngl I've never seen w=m.g
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u/DmReku Jan 26 '23
isn’t it F=m*g
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u/obnormal Jan 26 '23
No, F = ma is Newton's second law. Whereas "a" is considered constant acceleration and "g" is considered free fall acceleration. So F=mg is the formula of the force acting on a freely falling body under the conditions of the earth's gravity. So F=ma is a more general formula.
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u/TreeWreck Jan 26 '23
Its a physics equation thats used pretty often
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u/AwesomeCuno Jan 26 '23
W is used for work not weight so it doesn't make sense and F=ma is more versatile because it shows that any acceleration can affect the force not just gravity
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u/Half-blood_fish Jan 26 '23
Physicist here. I've never seen W=mg but I have see both G=mg and F=ma. We never really talk about weight (just forces and masses) and W is more often than not reserved for work.
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u/PebbelProphet Jan 26 '23
1+1=2 : AMATEURS
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u/Terrible-Ad8945 Jan 26 '23
2+2 is 4 - 1 that's 3.
Keep walking peasant.
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u/_Ezy_Pzy Jan 26 '23
nah everyone here is far from reality. any mathematician will tell you that eiπ + 1 = 0 is the single most beautiful formula in mathematics.
Euler's Identity. one theorem that involves five of the most important mathematical constants. irrational numbers and complex numbers. what a beauty
Edit: Although upon further inspection it seems to be less well known than some of it's counterparts so I guess it doesn't fit the meme correctly. I'm still keeping it up because it kicks ass though
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u/Jolly_Mongoose_8800 bruh Jan 27 '23
Literally any real physical system has damping which half the time must be represented this way due to the complex roots. I use the trig version, but it's really the same formula. You're not dying on this hill alone!
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u/tauri123 Jan 26 '23 edited Jan 26 '23
y = mx + b and a2 + b2 = c2 have entered the chat
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u/Cobaltive Jan 26 '23
Correct but even a 7 year old has heard of e=mc²
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u/BigBruh-Boii Jan 26 '23
That isn’t a valid argument? You could say the same with y=mx+b, I have no proof. But I can say it
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u/Kanomus_37 Jan 26 '23
Well think about when you and your friends first heard/read about this equations, from personal experiences I think E=mc² is an equation every kid sees very early on (obviously, not knowing the meaning/use of it)
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u/TheVoiceInZanesHead Jan 26 '23
I think you all underestimate how many trade people only really know
V=IR
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u/nuftufboi Jan 26 '23
Why do you use a . for multiplication instead of *
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u/TrickZ44 Jan 26 '23
Technically both r wrong but yea
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u/Kanomus_37 Jan 26 '23
No, they're both right though?
- is used in computer languages (because x is a letter, so it can't be used as an operator), and . is commonly used when writing equations as a shorthand version of X (especially when working with variables, where x is used as a variable, and decimal is not required)
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u/webba-bell Jan 26 '23
Right or wrong depends on context. The . In the context of vectors is the dot product and different from x, the cross product
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u/Glitchy157 Jan 26 '23
I have never seen Force with a sign "w" but ok
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u/Cobaltive Jan 26 '23
It is "weight" which is 10× the mass
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u/Half-blood_fish Jan 26 '23
No it's not. It's only 10 times the mass if you're using units such that g=10. On Earth, using SI units, you get quite close, but to say that weight is 10 times the mass is still wrong. It's simply the force between two masses.
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u/Glitchy157 Jan 26 '23
Why not just force of gravity? This just confuses people
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u/Spacepirateattack Jan 26 '23
Nah it's the proper term. Weight is a force caused by gravity. Mass of an object x 9.81 gives the downwards force (weight). 9.81 is the acceleration of any falling object in a vacuum.
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u/TreeWreck Jan 26 '23
Because force of gravity is a whole other can of worms, a different way to call weight would be newtons but still, you find out how much an object weighs not how many newtons it has
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u/Glitchy157 Jan 26 '23
Oh i guess i got confused due to language barier, here we jist call it weight force or gravity force, depends on how much you care about shit. But It still tells you how much force is exerted by said object on whatever its holding it up (while stationary), no?
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u/McDuck0_1 Jan 26 '23
Even if the W was force, the equation is incorrect. Force equation is F=ma
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u/Glitchy157 Jan 26 '23
g stands for the sum of gravitational acceleration and the centrifugal acceleration feom earth rotation. The equation gives N as a unit of W vie dimensional analisis, no matter how you look at it. Tho it is possible that some other, equivalent unit is standartly used for this, I wouldnt know
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u/stealthkoopa Jan 26 '23
that would have been the case 10 years ago in new england, ever since deflate gate, everyone here knows PV=nRT
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u/MajorMathematician20 Jan 26 '23
I’d argue A=π r² is pretty high up there too
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u/Cobaltive Jan 26 '23
It is in mathematics but formulas such as a²+b²=c² is present in both math and physics
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u/MajorMathematician20 Jan 26 '23
Ah of course, all of these are frequently used in both, E=mc² is in every mathematical textbook
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u/DeadBull_ Jan 26 '23
You’re the real amateur. That formula’s been disproven already
Check reference video for scientific analysis
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u/BitchLicker298 Jan 26 '23
Ive never seen a2 + b2 = c2 neither do i get what it's supposed to represent. Like, do the 3 variables represent something or are they just variables? c ig is speed of light but what are a and b.
Edit :- nvm its PGT, i just have never seen it written like that
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u/_1DK_ Jan 26 '23
Just curious, how else do you write it?
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u/BitchLicker298 Jan 26 '23
H2 = B2 + P2 (here P means Perpendicular; H means Hypotenuse; B means Base)
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u/ungabungahasinternet Jan 26 '23
For a moment i was really confused about w=mg until i realiced w=weight. For context Im from Spain and in Spanish Weight is Peso so we use P=mg.
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u/VanderCreep Jan 26 '23
Holy shit dude
i have a physics test in an hour and was panicking because i couldn’t remember the w = m*g formula
thank you lmfao
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u/TreeWreck Jan 26 '23
Naw its obviously (-b+-(sqrt b2 -4ac))/2a