OK, OK, I know that I am physics geek...

[kathbad]

These really amused me:

Why was Heisenberg's wife unsatisfied?
When he had the time he didn't have the energy, and when he had the position, he didn't have the momentum.

Top 10 reasons to date an Engineer
-They are used to all nighters
-They are always willing to experiment
-They know how to increase and decrease friction
-They know all about heat transfer
-They do it with more torque
-Engineering couples have better moments
-They know how to deal with stress and strain
-They know how to test their rigid cantilevers
-"Lubrication, friction, and wear" is a class
-They design and build large erections

The pilot of a plane on its way out of Poland dies unexpectedly in flight. A passenger is asked to fill in. He looks at the controls and shakes his head. "What's wrong?" someone asks. The reply: "I'm just a simple Pole in a complex plane."


Ba-dum *tish*

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[minusbat.livejournal.com]

Is the last joke a control theory joke ? because I don't quite understand that one but I know a *very* similar one which runs as follow:

An airbus is traveling from Moscow to London when it unexpectedly crashes, fortunately with no injuries. Afterwards the accident investigators are questioning the pilot and are asking him what the last thing he remembers is. "Well" he says "we were just passing south of Berlin, and it was such a beautiful view on the starboard side that I pointed it out to the passengers over the intercom. The next thing I knew we were out of control". The investigator looks at him and says "You fool! It's obvious why you became unstable and out of control -
all the poles moved to the right hand side of the plane!!!"

[kathbad]

It is indeed a control theory joke, in a very similar vein to the one you quote. Thus proving that I am not the only physics/engineering geek here *g*

[minusbat.livejournal.com]

I'm telling control theory jokes!
In public!
To a girl!


surely this never happens?

[minusbat.livejournal.com]

Oh, and being even sadder, can you explain your version of the joke - because my memory if control theory is that system instability only arises when all the poles (either simple of complex)a re in the right hand side of the `-plane, so just having a simple pole on it's own shoudn't result in instability per-se should it ? Or do the poles ahve to cme in pairs arranged either side of the real-axis ? I have a vague feeling that's true too... hmmmm....

(never liked C.T. - am a bit of an open-loop boy personally!)

Pedantic

[bobmonster.livejournal.com]

At least half of those 10 reasons are for mechanical engineers, not physicists. As a engineering pysisicist, I am disapointed.