https://felixleger.com/fr/tags/physics/ Recent content in Physics on Félix Léger Hugo fr-CA <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CC BY-NC 4.0</a> Thu, 07 Jan 2021 16:09:35 -0500 https://felixleger.com/fr/posts/2021/01/physics-problem-why-throw-at-45-degrees/ Thu, 07 Jan 2021 16:09:35 -0500 https://felixleger.com/fr/posts/2021/01/physics-problem-why-throw-at-45-degrees/ <script type="text/javascript" async src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/mathjax/2.7.4/MathJax.js?config=TeX-MML-AM_CHTML"> </script> <script type="text/x-mathjax-config"> MathJax.Hub.Config({ tex2jax: { inlineMath: [['$','$'], ['\\(','\\)']], displayMath: [['$$','$$'], ['\[','\]']], processEscapes: true, processEnvironments: true, skipTags: ['script', 'noscript', 'style', 'textarea', 'pre','code'], TeX: { equationNumbers: { autoNumber: "AMS" }, extensions: ["AMSmath.js", "AMSsymbols.js"] } } }); </script> <h1 id="motivation">Motivation</h1> <p>I recently discovered how to write equations in my Hugo website using Mathjax (credit goes to <a href="https://kunlei.github.io/2019/08/19/mathjax-setup/" target="_blank">kunlei</a> for the instructions!). In order to demonstrate the awesomeness of this tool (and also to refresh my memory on basic Physics concepts I have not used in a long time), let me demonstrate why 45 degrees is the ideal angle to throw something at maximum range.</p> https://felixleger.com/fr/posts/2019/10/why-i-shifted-from-physics-to-focus-on-software/ Mon, 14 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0400 https://felixleger.com/fr/posts/2019/10/why-i-shifted-from-physics-to-focus-on-software/ <p><script type="text/javascript" async src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/mathjax/2.7.4/MathJax.js?config=TeX-MML-AM_CHTML"> </script> <script type="text/x-mathjax-config"> MathJax.Hub.Config({ tex2jax: { inlineMath: [['$','$'], ['\\(','\\)']], displayMath: [['$$','$$'], ['\[','\]']], processEscapes: true, processEnvironments: true, skipTags: ['script', 'noscript', 'style', 'textarea', 'pre','code'], TeX: { equationNumbers: { autoNumber: "AMS" }, extensions: ["AMSmath.js", "AMSsymbols.js"] } } }); </script> Changing careers. It&rsquo;s not always pleasant.</p> <p>I&rsquo;m willing to bet that every day, at least one person reorients their career. It&rsquo;s just a certainty of life: some people are initially going to choose the wrong field. Yet, when it happens to us, we feel alone. It almost feels like we ended up with the wrong career by mistake, or that we wasted time not working on things we really enjoy. Or both.</p>