>>>>>>It must be cozy in whatever dimension you reside.
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>>>>I tend to reside in at least 4 dimensions, though I wish the 4th one would go away at least some of the time (if that's not a circular statement)
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>>>If it is a circular statement, then you know some temporal physics that we don't. In that case, I wonder which tense would be appropriate for the previous sentence. As Douglas Adams said, the trouble with time travel isn't the physics, it's the grammar.
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>>Static physics is the new bane of my younger daughter's existence. She is a freshman engineering major at Wisconsin-Madison. The first semester it was a math class she was placed into based on high school work and test scores. It turned out to be the most flunked class at Madison and the first washing-out point for engineering majors. School was always easy for her right through high school and she didn't believe me when I warned her this was not going to be an easy gig. A month into fall semester, she believed me. She called me in St. Louis one evening, or I called her, one or the other, and she said Dad, I'm afraid I'm going to flunk this class. She worked really hard on it, went to tutoring sessions Monday and Wednesday evenings, and wound up getting a B. She said when I saw that grade I was literally jumping up and down. She's sweet on the outside but also competitive.
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>>(And in case anyone thinks I am going for reflected glory, I'm not. I have known and said for a long time that she is WAY smarter than me).
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>I had the same kind of eye-opening coursework experience in engineering school, but for me it was multivariate calculus. In my class, I think everyone who passed that course graduated, and those who didn't dropped out of the program.
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>Maybe it's just me, but I found static analysis easy and fun - it's literally "concrete", as opposed to a lot of intermediate math which tends to be quite abstract.
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>If she hasn't yet hit multivariate calculus/differential equations etc. in her coursework, maybe you could give her a heads-up that her workload is about to step up to another new level :-\

I don't even have any idea what multivariate calculus is and will keep it our little secret until she makes it through statics ;-) She is probably going to have at least one monster class every semester.