If being wrong is certain, what's there to be scared of? :>

I was told there'd be no math.

Maybe it was "mo' math".

The Professor sure put them in their Laplace

That's excellent. EGGcellent!

I wish I'd thought of that.

This is very cute and highly creative

Cute, definitely. And Laplace transforms are incredibly interesting on top of that!

*runs from the room terrified... no numbers! no numbers!

Vix

There were only two numbers on that slide. One of them wasn't even a number! Calm down.

*breathes in and out of her paper bag...

OK... thanks... saw equations and... breathebreathebreathebreathe....

Vix

Back into your ovarium you mathematically sadistic creature!

My...ovarium? I'd like to see photographic evidence of such a place. Or at least a sketch!

Okay this piqued my curiosity, why would there be an ovarium for the prof??

Secret reasons. :>

To quote Tinny Tim from Futurama: "You raised my hopes and dashed them quite expertly, sir. Bravo!"

I like math, but I don't think I got quite this far. I don't remember the name "Laplace", but I also can't remember most of the calculus I went through...

This probably would have been after Calculus. There wouldn't be much reason to learn it if you weren't going into certain sciences or engineering.

Yeah, I went the programmer route. I tried to do Differential Equations, but it'd been something like 8 years since I had touched Calculus, so I noped out of the class pretty quickly. ^_^;;

I'll stick with the usual transformations. Translate, scale, rotate, affine... You only need matrix math for those.

I spent more time learning this then I ever spent using it... in fact, I don't think I ever used it. *Raises hand* Outside of, the trivial answer of teaching these, how often do you use these?

I can confidently say I do not use them in my daily life. The idea, though, is interesting on its own: changing a problem from one that describes time and space, or time and electrical charge, into a new problem where there is no time, since you've spread out everything that can happen by projecting it onto a placeholding function...solving the new timeless problem since it's easier, as easy as rearranging a few lights and objects, watching what shadows they cast, and then projecting back to the normal time and space we all know and love?

It's Stranger Things and all the Marvel Multiverse films happening in your actual life!

I learned the Laplace transform in Precalculus as a method of solving differential equations. Outside of that, I never used it in the real world -- certainly not in Program System Analysis.

The transforms aren't in the real world at all! Most of the fun of it is that it removes you from the real world (the time domain) and into the s-domain, or frequency domain, as I've heard it called.

I don't get the frequency connection since s isn't measuring anything related to the reciprocal of time, but sometimes engineers name things by what's useful and not by what they might actually be.

Wait, O_O it's been a while, uh-oh, the dust is coming off, this was a generalization of the fourier transform useful for damping systems like the damned harmonic... I mean damped harmonic oscillator? Oh, shoot, I might actually use this one day and have to eat my own words X_X. Maybe... I don't recall if this had a discreet solution with the clever computational simplicity of the FFT... Which is particularly critical in 2D space with something like 64 frequency values running at 60 FPS.

This must be a reference to cal 1,2 or 3.
I definitely get the joke of change and calculus is math of transformation.

Laplace Transformations--differential equations. :>

thx 4 the watch