Quotes from PHYS 381 Electrodynamics Winter Semester 2007

• If there is a bomb here, I am going to run there, along a radius.
• Engineers are working very hard to make our lives easier, they are not always successful but what can we do.
• There are 24 letters in the alphabet! maybe we should use the Chinese alphabet then we’d have 6000 letters to choose from? No? well then let’s learn it, use it, and be happy
• You need to tell the solvee how things behave on the boundary.
• You need to know something if the “wild guess” method is going to work.
• The “wild guess” or “lucky guess” better sometimes work, this isn’t lotto 649
• Remember the laws! you’re not allowed to visualize incorrectly.
• I lied! I just made two functions look different, it was like writing sin² + cos² and pretending that it didn’t equal 1.
• The Laplace equation gives nice and cozy solutions.