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[challenge entry] While I'm spanging you, I'll take care of myself as well...
I'll take care of myself as well...

From the Explain Stuff With Maths challenge. See all 249 entries (closed)

(, Thu 24 Dec 2009, 10:16, archived)
# I had to filename it,
and now I have to return the spang

*weighs up frying pan*
(, Thu 24 Dec 2009, 10:19, archived)
# I've got a special spanging pan here...
It's lightweight aluminium for maximum noise, minimum pain...
(, Thu 24 Dec 2009, 10:22, archived)
# Marks out of ten for Vorderman?

I'd give her one!
(, Thu 24 Dec 2009, 10:25, archived)
[challenge entry] In mathematics and physics, a soliton is a self-reinforcing solitary wave (a wave packet or pulse) that maintains its shape while it travels at constant speed.

A single, consensus definition of a soliton is difficult to find. Drazin and Johnson (1989) ascribe 3 properties to solitons:

1. They are of permanent form;
2. They are localised within a region;
3. They can interact with other solitons, and emerge from the collision unchanged, except for a phase shift.

(, Thu 24 Dec 2009, 10:28, archived)
# O_o

I think you need to have a break
(, Thu 24 Dec 2009, 10:31, archived)
# ^ This
(, Thu 24 Dec 2009, 10:31, archived)
# it's a break from my fucking runge kutta problem that I have at the moment.
I was thinking of explaining some phenomena of traffic flow, or this particular fluid flow:
www.rockcastle.org/activities/waterwaves/water.jpg

but that's hard...
(, Thu 24 Dec 2009, 10:35, archived)
# o_O


(, Thu 24 Dec 2009, 10:42, archived)
# oh i thought it was sun cream
must be lost in the wave of translation
(, Thu 24 Dec 2009, 10:45, archived)
# Woo!
ah. solitons in a puddle.


Woo!
(, Sun 27 Dec 2009, 0:17, archived)
# *searches comedy instrument stocks*
The drumkit and trombone are out... will a comedy harp do?
(, Thu 24 Dec 2009, 10:28, archived)
# Comedy harp is good
(, Thu 24 Dec 2009, 10:42, archived)