Login | Sign Up
TechSideline

All Hokie, All the Time. Period. Presented by First Bank & Trust Company

The Lounge
◀ ▶
M
Joined: 05/07/2001
Posts: 20,189
Likes: 8,709
MikeVT85
Subscriber

Back in 1984 I took a graduate class in McBryde

called "Applied Partial Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems" (I still have the textbook). I paid a PhD math major $10/hr for tutoring, recommended by a classmate that had taken the class, when I needed it. He also helped in pointing out some of the problems that are likely to be on the exams. Ended up getting one of the two "A's" given in the class. I asked the PhD if this stuff came easy to him. He said no, he had/has to labor at it just like most of us. ** Edited by MikeVT85 at 6/26/2025, 10:45:37 AM
Posted: 06/26/2025 at 10:39 AM ET
(In response to this post by TomTurkey)

Thread Replies (40)

Full Thread →
Late Morning Trivia: [Science/Math/Physics style]
UTPr0sim • 06/26/25 09:18 AM ET
Since it's after noon... C is the wave equation, but I don't know who
BB Hokie • 06/26/25 12:12 PM ET
Ding for wave equation. Explanation below! Nice Job!**
UTPr0sim • 06/26/25 12:13 PM ET
C. “What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?"
TomTurkey • 06/26/25 12:12 PM ET
Noon Answers for the Lounge!
UTPr0sim • 06/26/25 12:12 PM ET
The "*" became popular in foundation engineering for driving P/S conc piles
TomTurkey • 06/26/25 03:11 PM ET
Now I see why the wave equation didn't take the name of the scientist...
BB Hokie • 06/26/25 12:16 PM ET
Actually it has been called the d'Alembert equation, but that's not the
UTPr0sim • 06/26/25 12:26 PM ET
D is the Fourier Transform from the early 1800's. We all "use it" daily...
BB Hokie • 06/26/25 11:38 AM ET
Ding ding Ding! all three!**
UTPr0sim • 06/26/25 12:02 PM ET
D. 🎶It's about time, it's about space, it's all about the human race...🎶**
TomTurkey • 06/26/25 11:29 AM ET
being a liberal arts major i can tell you who wrote the catcher in the rye**
squarerootofone • 06/26/25 11:14 AM ET
I can tell you the main character in Debbie Does Dallas.**
MikeVT85 • 06/26/25 11:30 AM ET
Debbie?**
EDGEMAN • 06/26/25 11:31 AM ET
SHUN!**
UTPr0sim • 06/26/25 11:32 AM ET
As an engineering major I had to read 'Fathers and Sons'**
TomTurkey • 06/26/25 11:30 AM ET
Was it a baseball player?
EDGEMAN • 06/26/25 11:22 AM ET
Don't think Salinger played much. He did like younger women though...**
UTPr0sim • 06/26/25 11:31 AM ET
indeed**
squarerootofone • 06/26/25 11:25 AM ET
Look to Your Left and to Your Right…**
VT BronzeBacker • 06/26/25 11:07 AM ET
NERDS! **
Vtskier1 • 06/26/25 10:50 AM ET
"A nerd saw me naked!"**
Brown Water • 06/26/25 11:04 AM ET
B is Newton? 16th century?**
hoosnowahokie • 06/26/25 10:29 AM ET
Ding for Newton, Ding for 1600s, Now what is the equation???**
UTPr0sim • 06/26/25 10:55 AM ET
point of order, "16th century" and "1600s" is not the same thing
JoesterVT • 06/26/25 11:04 AM ET
I know that, You know that, Most people don't. LOL Welcome to the 21st....**
UTPr0sim • 06/26/25 11:22 AM ET
Gravitational force?**
hoosnowahokie • 06/26/25 11:01 AM ET
DING! Newton' Gravitational Equation discovered in 1687**
UTPr0sim • 06/26/25 11:24 AM ET
I was told there would be no math
HokieJamie • 06/26/25 10:24 AM ET
Physics has no place in trivia contests. **
Stork • 06/26/25 09:48 AM ET
More Calculus?
TomTurkey • 06/26/25 10:16 AM ET
Like it makes a difference!**
TomTurkey • 06/26/25 10:54 AM ET
I heard that Dr. Don is an expert on Calculus...
JoesterVT • 06/26/25 10:30 AM ET
A. I know from trig. D.?- take it to the Differential Equations Board.**
ACCWatcher • 06/26/25 10:21 AM ET
Differential equations with a hungover grad student - summer course
TomTurkey • 06/26/25 10:24 AM ET
Back in 1984 I took a graduate class in McBryde ◄
MikeVT85 • 06/26/25 10:39 AM ET
I still have nightmares about D. **
MCL3 Hokie • 06/26/25 09:46 AM ET
I learned all 4 of these somewhere between High School and leaving VT
UTPr0sim • 06/26/25 10:58 AM ET
A - Pythagarus - 400 BC**
JoesterVT • 06/26/25 09:22 AM ET
Ding Ding - Close on the Century. Don't have an exact date though 530BC
UTPr0sim • 06/26/25 09:31 AM ET
Congrats on grabbing the low hanging fruit...lol
EDGEMAN • 06/26/25 09:27 AM ET