{"id":697,"date":"2007-07-25T02:26:34","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T02:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=697"},"modified":"2019-07-08T10:18:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T02:18:37","slug":"math-comics-from-xkcdcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/math-comics-from-xkcdcom-697","title":{"rendered":"Math comics from xkcd.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\">XKCD.com<\/a>, \"A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language\":<\/p>\n<h2>1. James Bond<\/h2>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/centrifugal_force.png\" alt=\"james bond\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>2. dPain\/dt<\/h2>\n<p>On the hoped-for diminution of the pain of unrequited love over time:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/dPain_over_dt.png\" alt=\"dpain dt\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you're not sure what number (2) means or your calculus is rusty, check out: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/differentiation\/differentiation-intro.php\">Introduction to Differentiation<\/a> over at Interactive Mathematics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\">XKCD.com<\/a> is by Randall Munroe,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>... a CNU graduate with a degree in physics. Before starting xkcd, I worked on robots at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Disclaimer:<\/b> Some of his comics are a bit naughty. Don't go to the site if you are easily offended.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xkcd.com has some fun math- and physics-related comics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12057,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions\/12057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}