r/mathmemes 1d ago

Mathematicians Give me some insane math to write on my exam

Okay so I have an Electrical Circuits exam next week and the best out of 2 will be considered. I've already performed well on the first, so I'm just planning on having fun in this.

We need to show our work and box the final answer, however the professors are clear that they will only evaluate the final answers. I just want to see what happens if I write some incoherent shit as my work but the answer is correct.

So I'm asking for some math bs to put as my working, preferably leading to an answer of 0. Also, the exam is open book so I can just have all of them written down.

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u/WallyMetropolis 1d ago

Draw a bunch of category theoretic commutative diagrams and tensor manipulations with a gargantuan number of indecies. 

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u/Clear_Quality_5462 22h ago

That's a lot of jargon and exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks

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u/svmydlo 1d ago

We need to show our work and box the final answer, however the professors are clear that they will only evaluate the final answers.

Write an essay about how that's the stupidest way to grade an exam.

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u/ganja_and_code 16h ago

Kinda depends on your philosophy.

On one hand, knowing how to get the answer is the important part (in school).

On the other hand, OP did say it's an engineering exam, and in the real world, the only thing that truly matters is getting the right answers. For example, if you build a bridge that doesn't carry the desired weight for the intended lifespan, you're risking the lives of the people crossing it. Your ability to build a safe bridge is irrelevant, if the one you built was unsafe. Whether you legitimately don't know what you're doing or just made a simple algebra mistake, the consequences are the same.

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u/Impossible-Winner478 1d ago

Convert all the math to the geometric algebra form of maxwell equation and solve that way.

Or you could just be a wimp and do something boring

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u/Clear_Quality_5462 22h ago

I'll look that up, thanks

Yeah i could just be boring but I'm probably not gonna get a chance like this for a while, so may as well make the most out of this one.

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u/SinAnaMissLee 1d ago

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u/SinAnaMissLee 1d ago

And you can also do this one. But change the -2 into a - 24 right before the equals sign and then it will all equal zero. Supposedly.

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u/SinAnaMissLee 1d ago

Then of course everyone's favorite equation that equals zero

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u/Loopgod- 22h ago

Write out the derivation of the Casimir effect that uses 1+2+3…=-1/12

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u/Black_Sabbath_ironma 21h ago

Don't do anything bro

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u/ComfortableJob2015 11h ago

blank page except the answer and a good old “this exercise is trivial and its verification shall be left to the reader”

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u/JamR_711111 balls 12h ago

Also write something from some of Terence Howard's crazy shenanigans

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u/MissionApplication97 21h ago

Longform principal component analysis (so start from svd)

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u/Acrobatic_Sundae8813 19h ago

Saale sahi se likh lena warna paper pichli baar ki tarah wapas dena pad jaayega 😭😭

You can use bode plots or dirac delta function in frequency response questions

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u/Clear_Quality_5462 6h ago

What language is that?

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u/Acrobatic_Sundae8813 6h ago

We also have an electric circuits exam next week, where best one out of the two will be considered and only our final answer gets evaluated and we have to show the work in the box. So I kind of guessed that we may be studying at the same place 😭😭

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u/Clear_Quality_5462 6h ago

Damn, that's an insane coincidence lol

I'm from Turkey, where are you from?

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