Sat 4th Mar 2006
My God, this lecturer is boring. Undoubtedly the boringest bore who ever wasted the myriad subatomic particles required for existence. He’s like a trip down Boring Street on International Day of the Boring while the Boring Military Marching Band play the Boring National Anthem in the key of boring.
— Me, SMS to Laurie
Wed 10th Aug 2005
Written during a physics honours project about magnetism.
I have invented a new unit for the discipline of electromagnetism. It measures magnetic field flux intensity density strength, and its symbol is ‘R’ (halfway between a ‘B’ and an ‘H’ at the suggestion of Jane). Units of ‘R’ (at Annette’s suggestion) is the Duck (or anything that, when mumbled, can be mistaken for ‘Duck’).
Conversion is done by taking the value of ‘R’ and multiplying by 4π; unless the geometry of the system is a circle, in which case divide by 4π and take the cosine of the angle your coil makes with the moment of any magnetic material present. Add to this quantity the area-turn product over the space-time curvature, except where the Poynting vector is non-zero but perpendicular to the plane of the coil.
What this converts to I'm not entirely sure yet. Probably Φ.
Mon 20th Jun 2005
Cayley's Theorem, and proof, in six lines. Written during a group theory exam.
A group of finite mensuration
Conforms, by Cayley's invocation,
Unto a group of permutations
An element therein shall find
A rearrangement of its kind
And to it by its action bind.
Wed 8th Jun 2005
Jason’s Day
9:00 Blah blah groups. Blah blah symmetry. Blah blah operators. Blah blah sets.
10:00 Blah blah maps. Blah blah permutations. Blah blah bijections. Blah blah inverse.
Lauren’s Day
9:05 Gerald from Management: “Lauren, I need you to fill out this 16B form. You can get the details from Bob in Accounts.”
9:13 Bob in Accounts: “Aha. Well…
The secret of form 16B Lies within these riddles 3…”
Mon 14th Feb 2005