Physics / Science And Math

Faster than a Speeding Pony: Why We Do Back-of-the-Envelope Calculations

This post will be rather short because I’m in the middle of finals. Of course, if you follow me regularly, you also know that I’ve posted rather a lot this week. When I’m exhausted from studying, it’s much easier to write in short bursts, which might explain all the short posts recently. While reading this article, I recently found the following video, in which a fan of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic demonstrates the physics impossibilities in a few scenes of his favorite show. Let’s watch it, and then I’ll explain why I showed it to you. (A