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67 KB Anonymous 11/22/11(Tue)23:56 No.4057812  
what the fuck is wrong with textbook publishers
>> Zoologist !!d1rrJ+p+/nz 11/22/11(Tue)23:58 No.4057821
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They are on crack.
That is what.
>> Anonymous 11/23/11(Wed)00:00 No.4057826
>>4057821
>that long strand of hair

I vomited
>> Anonymous 11/23/11(Wed)00:01 No.4057830
>>4057821

Fundamentals of Physics, yessss
>> Anonymous 11/23/11(Wed)00:02 No.4057832
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>>4057821
that's some serious fucking drugs, dawg
>> Anonymous 11/23/11(Wed)00:03 No.4057836
>>4057812
>>4057821

They have a sense of humor.
>> Zoologist !!d1rrJ+p+/nz 11/23/11(Wed)00:03 No.4057837
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>>4057826

Better?
>> Zoologist !!d1rrJ+p+/nz 11/23/11(Wed)00:04 No.4057844
>>4057836

Some would argue that is the same thing....
>> Anonymous 11/23/11(Wed)00:07 No.4057851
Sheared sheep. I fucking laughed. Lighten up, op.

At least it's not incorrect. There are bad text books. Read Feynman's account of being on a committee to select text books for a school. It's the writers that are insane. The publishers, like the people on feynman's committee, probably don't even read the books before shipping them out.
>> Anonymous 11/23/11(Wed)00:07 No.4057856
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related
>> Anonymous 11/23/11(Wed)00:08 No.4057859
>>4057856

source?
>> Anonymous 11/23/11(Wed)00:08 No.4057860
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>>4057812
Oh no a pun.
>> Anonymous 11/23/11(Wed)00:10 No.4057863
>>4057859
old chemistry textbook by nityananda shetty

forgot version, etc.
>> Anonymous 11/23/11(Wed)00:10 No.4057864
what book?
>> Zoologist !!d1rrJ+p+/nz 11/23/11(Wed)00:10 No.4057865
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>>4057860

Want to hear a potassium joke?
>> Anonymous 11/23/11(Wed)00:11 No.4057869
>>4057865
omg yes
>> Anonymous 11/23/11(Wed)00:11 No.4057871
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>>4057865
>> Zoologist !!d1rrJ+p+/nz 11/23/11(Wed)00:12 No.4057877
>>4057869
>>4057871

K
>> Anonymous 11/23/11(Wed)00:12 No.4057878
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introduction to finance
>> Zoologist !!d1rrJ+p+/nz 11/23/11(Wed)00:14 No.4057884
>>4057877

That was the joke.
>> Anonymous 11/23/11(Wed)00:14 No.4057885
>>4057812
Fuckin' love it! Wish half the mathematics I read was this funny. ^O^
>> Anonymous 11/23/11(Wed)00:16 No.4057887
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>> Anonymous 11/23/11(Wed)00:16 No.4057889
>>4057877
>>4057865
this is now a science/math joke thread
inb4 neutrino walks into a bar
>> Anonymous 11/23/11(Wed)00:17 No.4057893
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not mine, but...
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>>4057877
>>4057884
>> Anonymous 11/23/11(Wed)00:23 No.4057913
the only thing that bothers me is i remember seeing that same sheep in my linear algebra textbook and I never noticed the pun
>> M 11/23/11(Wed)00:23 No.4057914
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Here's a textbook I'm currently reading....look carefully at the picture.
>> Anonymous 11/23/11(Wed)00:27 No.4057925
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Not a textbook, but what the fuck..?
>> Anonymous 11/23/11(Wed)00:29 No.4057937
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>>4057914
>nano technology
>really just nano boobs and booty
>> Anonymous 11/23/11(Wed)00:30 No.4057940
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>> Anonymous 11/23/11(Wed)00:31 No.4057945
>>4057914
HAHAHAHAHA, that's going in my textbook folder.

Was that made with microstereolithography?
>> M 11/23/11(Wed)00:32 No.4057948
>>4057937
Crazy, right? The lab manager told me that she was surprised they published something like this. At the time, I never looked at it closely and didn't know what she meant. I took a plane to Boston today and on the plane began reading the book. I noticed the cover and shat brix
>> M 11/23/11(Wed)00:34 No.4057955
>>4057945
I just opened the book again, and I can't find anything that descirbes what it is! On close inspection of the cover, it looks to me like a human hair or something. I'll skim the pages and tell you if I find anything.
>> Anonymous 11/23/11(Wed)00:34 No.4057956
>>4057914
My body was not ready.
>> Anonymous 11/23/11(Wed)00:35 No.4057959
>>4057914
is that shit real?

like, it's not actually shooped?
>> Anonymous 11/23/11(Wed)00:36 No.4057962
>>4057948

I think it's meant to be Venus. It's just a pretty poor job.

>But but Anon! It's nanoscopic! Give them some credit, right?

No, it looks terrible.
>> M 11/23/11(Wed)00:43 No.4057978
I went through 600 pages, finally found it. It's "Venus Micromodels on Human Hair", (laser-zentrum-hannover.de)

3-D Two-Photon Lithography
>> Anonymous 11/23/11(Wed)00:46 No.4057984
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>>4057978
>>4057978
So basically microstereolithography
>> M 11/23/11(Wed)00:46 No.4057985
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>>4057959
Not shooped. Now that I know the name, I could search for it properly and here's a much better resolution pic
>> M 11/23/11(Wed)00:47 No.4057990
>>4057984
No clue. I'm on page 17 of the book. I'm taking the class next semester, although I'll try to have my first microfluidic device assembled by the end of winter. I'm an environmental engineer.
>> Anonymous 11/23/11(Wed)01:01 No.4058014
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>>4057990
Microfluidic devices as in elastomer based ones, solid ones, or droplet ones? And what do you want to build in microfluidics?

Presumably you're making some sort of sensor?

You can do some pretty cool stuff with elastomer based microfluidics, just check out anything from Quake lab(as in the big one).

Or if you want to kick it back old-school you might consider making a microfluidic amplifier(pic related), the microfluidic analog of a transistor and make a pure fluid signal processor.

>>4057985
Looks shooped. I doubt they were able to fabricate or place said microtorsos on a human hair. Micromanipulation is hard.
>> M 11/23/11(Wed)01:12 No.4058043
>>4058014
I can't say whether or not it's fake, but it is on the cover of my textbook and it comes from a reputable source so I do believe it's real.

I'm short, I'm doing reactive transport modeling of uranium in microfluidic pore networks, and developing models that incorporate how microbial communities can enhance uranium reduction beyond what's possible by physical mixing alone. We think that bacteria use conductive nanowires and lay down grids of these wires on biofilms to transport electrons.

Basically, I have a reactor design with a pore network that resembles sandy soil (a bunch of cylinders and pores, as well as nanoporous aggregates, or small holes inside the cylinders), and will use flow rates and uranium concentrations close to those at contaminated sites. The reason I'm using these devices is because it creates a highly controlled 2-D environment (I'll do 3-D experiments later, but 2-D is easier to understand initially) and allows me to isolate different transport mechanisms by changing the design of the reactor. Later, I'll vary temperature and pressure to create different forms of iron oxide present in soil, and see how iron oxides affect diffusion, transport, uranium transformation...etc.

Other students in the environmental engineering program ARE making sensors, and doing work with things called "aptamers" that I don't quite understand.
>> M 11/23/11(Wed)01:17 No.4058058
>>4058014
Right now I'm learning the machines. I had cleanroom and preproom training, and yesterday learned how to use the spinner to put on photoresist, and the mask aligner to transfer my image. The professor of the class recommended I buy the textbook and read it while I learn all the machines I need to use. Next I'll be using ICP-DRIE, anodic bonding, the furnace, sputterer, and a few other machines.
>> Anonymous 11/23/11(Wed)01:24 No.4058078
The book in OP is Linear Algebra and Its Applications by David C. Lay. It is the fourth edition. I have it right now next to me.
>> Anonymous 11/23/11(Wed)01:26 No.4058083
>>4058078
Btw, it is actually a clever representation of linear transformations.
>> Anonymous 11/23/11(Wed)01:32 No.4058101
>>4057940
I would SO do it.
>> Anonymous 11/23/11(Wed)01:40 No.4058123
>>4057990
>>4058014

sh!t, fellow enviro here, where are you guy going to school, undergrad or grad. I didn't get any course this interesting in school.

Oh, btw, the writers didn't count on the fact that people would read/follow every single line in the book. So like the map makers, they insert trap streets, in-joke, weird lines, just to fill in the pages. Well, publishers don't care, thicker books means higher price (usually). When you have shit load to worry about, writer on crack is the last thing on their list.
>> Anonymous 11/23/11(Wed)01:48 No.4058144
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>>4058058
>>4058043
Let's just hope your bacteria don't enrich said uranium. There are rumors every now and then of biological based uranium enrichment, but fortunately, they always turn out to be false....


Aptamers are basically RNA based enzymes that bind to stuff. Sort of like the kind of things you'd find in an RNA world. They're really neat because you can quickly evolve them to bind specifically to pretty much anything really quickly.

Add some dyes(or something) to em' and you can tell if they've bound to something.

Also don't spill the HF. And remember pyrophoric mean catches fire upon exposure to oxygen.
>> Anonymous 11/23/11(Wed)09:28 No.4058931
>>4057812

I fucking lol'd
>> Anonymous 11/23/11(Wed)09:42 No.4058964
OP I fucking love that text. It's a great intro to linear.
>> Anonymous 11/23/11(Wed)09:47 No.4058981
>>4057914

so what, it's venus de milo