Equation in Weird Al's White and Nerdy

[Thes Hunter]

Ok, folks it's time for me to geek out.

You know how you see something and you KNOW you have seen it somewhere before, but you just can't recall where?


Well I felt like that with the equation displayed in the background of Weird Al's White and Nerdy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xEzGIuY7kw).

It bothered me for a while, and then I forgot about it.
Then the other day I watched the video again, and thought "Oh there's that particle wave equation I couldn't figure out last year."

Now, not trusting my brain, I had to go looking for proof (http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/252/wave_equations.html)



And it turns out that it is a derivation of Schrodingers wave equation describing the motion of a particle within a field in 3 dimensions.


*now cue the true geeks who will point out what ever I might have gotten slightly wrong in any of my descriptions or within the link I gave*

[Zakama]

Well, I'm not anywhere near nerdy enough to understand, but yay for you! I hate when things bug me.

[thubby]

i know what your talking about, but am lost on the equation itself. so im somewhere in between you two.

[RandomLogic]

We used Schroedinger's wave equation in my modern physics class and way too often in my Nanotech class.

(un?)Fortunately, I recognized it right away...

Also its not complete, there is a "=U(r)Psi(r)" on the right to complete the equation.

[Icewalker]

Hehehe, impressive.

Fun song.

[Player_Zero]

So... Who wants to check the value of pi in that video, then? :smallbiggrin:

P.S. They are correct, yes.

[Szilard]

3.1415916535 someting or another, now to check.

[Szilard]

My brother wants to show off his knowledge of Pi...

3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375 105:smallcool:

[Ted_Stryker]

It's Schrödinger's equation for the Hydrogen atom in cgs units before doing any separation of variables.

[Vella_Malachite]

@^^sorry, I was under the impression that pi is 3.1415926753589. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

That equation is awesome and I love that song. My friend downloaded it and she still hasn't sent it to me:smallmad:.

Ah, well.

[Dumbledore lives]

No I believe he is right, here is the Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi

[Hazkali]

I hate to out-geek people here, but it's clearly visible that the equation used is incorrect, as some muppet has put Planck's constant (h) in place of Dirac's constant (ħ).


Ok, so I wouldn't have noticed without Wikipedia...

[Groundhog]

So... Who wants to check the value of pi in that video, then? :smallbiggrin:

P.S. They are correct, yes.

You can't because he's standing in front of part of it. Hate to disappoint everyone.