It wasn't actually...that's high school physics. He didn't dodge the question rather got distracted by that throat obstruction. Writers are to be blamed for this.
@@vsk1494 wasnt taught to me but I both did not take any advanced science classes like Chemistry or take advanced math classes like Geometry, I just took enough courses that would give me the credits to graduate. Freshman year I took Earth Science and Pre Algebra. Sophomore year took Biology and Algebra 1. Junior year took life science (because I did not realize it was the same class as biology just for Freshman and I didnt want to take chemestry) and I took Algebra 2. By senior year I had all the credits I needed for math and science I did not need to take any more classes. Which was great at the time though now I am kind of regretting taking the easy route in high school.
@@kryptonian1371 I think you fundamentally misunderstood the comment. It's nothing about Sheldon dodging it or anything like that. It's that rather than a verbal answer, the show (as in the sitcom itself) demonstrated it with Sheldon coughing up the spitwad
I actually have no idea what Eddy Current's are...didn't learn that in High School. I'm a disappointment to Theoretical Physicists...prefer Chemistry over it ;-;
The writers could've had Howard ask hard questions, but perhaps they have more of a science background than an engineering one? And perhaps they didn't know what hard engineering questions would be, possibly due to a lack of awareness, so they opted for easy ones? Of course, that's obviously just conjecture, but that could explain why Howard didn't actually ask hard questions.
Seeing the boys quiz each other is the best scene ever! They're usually getting on each other's nerves. The writers need to explore this aspect of their friendships more.
Yeah, it's nice seeing the guys being the guys every now and then. Sad that there weren't many moments like this in the series, especially towards the end, but it makes me appreciate the moments like the quiz scene more.
What I don't get is why Howard never offers a PRACTICAL challenge to Sheldon? Sheldon is brilliant but only in THEORY. As we may recall, he doesn't even know how to open a toolbox.
That was just for a one off gag, this show isn't above violating its continuity for the sake of a laugh. In every other story before and after that one he's pretty good at building his own devices (not as good as Howard obviously but still pretty impressive).
It's ironic that on many of the trivia surveys, Sheldon is voted most likely to survive the apocalypse out of all of the group. I'd vote for either Penny or Howard because of their practical ability.
this part was so dumb. they made Howard ask the most basic engineering questions to Sheldon. even I knew like 2 of them and I learned about Young's modulus and stuff when I was in high school.
@@hazardgaminghg122 Well, if we are talking about those specific questions, they are just high-school level and in this case anyone can answer them without much trouble
Yeah, thats what his job is all about, of course Sheldon would know all,the theoretical parts about it, but then actually using it on live things is completely different
They even demonstrated it in a previous episode! They built their battlemech "Monty", Howard's feelings were hurt by Penny, so he wouldn't work any more on the robot, and the other three had absolutely no clue how to work on the machine at all. The only thing they could do to improve the model was add fresh batteries to the remote, and when their robot was torn to pieces, they went crying back to Howard to see if HE could fix it, because they didn't even know enough about applied engineering to tell for themselves that there was no salvaging it.
I remember a video of a guy who went to an MIT graduation with a battery, a piece of wire, and a light bulb and asked the graduates to make the light bulb light up. The solution was to touch the bottom of the light bulb directly to the battery at the positive terminal and use the wire to bridge the negative terminal to the outside of the light bulb's base. A lot of them couldn't do it because they thought they needed another piece of wire.
@@ericconnor8419 He probably got that idea from Star Trek where they had similar games. If Sheldon had actually invented it, he would have gotten it patened so he would have gotten credit for the invention. We know how he always wants credit for everything.
@@biswadeepsen3108 depends on your highschool/secondary school like if it has electives or whatever. I didn't have electives and I didn't have it. My sibling's secondary school had electives, and e did learn the stuff.
+MsJubjubbird He knows that one, now, Penny asked him again the following season and spouted a whole load of crap about them. Then said he looked it up after she asked him. (actually they have played that gag a few times since)
Two things. This show could've made solid use of a degree holding engineer in order to formulate harder questions. And also Howard could've questioned Sheldon on social situations, as that's much harder for him.
@@robertshiell887 true, but it's realistically even harder for Sheldon. Howard is at least competent enough to maintain friends who genuinely enjoy hanging out with him
1:39 After I heard Howard's question I was like no way that's a thing so I googled it and after 40 minutes I can say that's the best thing I've ever read! "THE RHOMBICOSIDODECAHEDRON!" Love it
moments like 1:20 onward are the best moments of the show. The boys having fun, doing what that great at and celebrating each other for their smartness. Somehow this is so cute
For those saying the questions were too easy...remember that the show itself was never really about science or knowledge. It was about making a parody of intellectualism and reusing the same old nerd tropes from the 1980s.
Well, the first question was definitely the easiest. Young's Modulus is a topic introduced to 1st year Mechanical Engineering students if they haven't already taken engineering classes in high school.
@@cristobalgarces1675 1st yr mechanical engineering??? We've read all three questions mentioned in this episode in the final year of high school , and those are topics of physics!!!
@@subratanandy2142 As I said in the first sentence, they are introduced to it in the first year of mechanical engineering IF THEY HAVEN'T ALREADY BEEN IN HIGH SCHOOL. I was introduced to it my sophomore year of high school in a basic engineering class.
These questions weren't hard, I mean we are taught all that in grade 12 here in India, and engineering comes after that. These were some basic knowledge questions from physics
Omggg yesss, I was about to say the same thing!! The last two questions, I knew the answers because we learnt them in our first semester in Engineering!
you're both sort of right, "strength" is just a vague word mostly used outside of academics - whichever of the many possible quantities you take to describe it is just a matter of definition really. still funny how TBBT considers a question about young modulus an actual question, as if this is what engineering comes down to. dude is a space engineer and he asks a highschool question (which the other 'physicists' don't know about - "is he right?"). TBBT should've hired some scientific consultant or something long ago.
+staxstix Yeah, whenever I hear any of them say something about physics, it's pretty much just something you learn in high school. It's not really impressive, and memorizing random things doesn't even show that you're smart. It just shows you can memorize things. I wonder who they hired as their consultant.
He's not wrong with the second one. You can use either tensile strength/ ultimate strength or yield strength when defining the strength of a material. You just have to be consistent and make it known which of the two you're using when making a comparison.
None of the questions asked by Howard was hard. I answered tougher questions than those in entrance examinations to enter engineering course in university.
Actually, Poiseuille's law is as much scientific as Young's modulus and both are known by anybody with foundation in classical mechanics, it doesn't take specialized engineering background to know those things (and Sheldon should have known both easily). As an engineer, Howard should have asked about the down-to-earth specifics of his work. For instance, which buttons and menus to press in some Ansys software, or how to assemble some mechanism by hand, or refer to specific numbers from engineering tables or manuals. Although Sheldon wouldn't have been taking pride in knowing those far too specialized details.
You know the weird thing? I got both the first 2 questions correct and I'm only in 11th grade! Howard shouldn't have asked theoretical stuff, it's too easy for Sheldon. :)
I have not been keeping up with this sitcom for a long time, and after seeing some new scenes lately, I have to say that Howard is looking really good lately. He usually looked so goofy and dopey, but he just looks really attractive lately. I don't know what it is exactly.
Sheldon is afraid that Howard is smarter than him, so he talks down to him to make himself feel better. Leonard mentions that to Sheldon and he doesn't deny it. MIT is unbelievably prestigious and Sheldon can't handle it
@@ronuronu814 but you can have one material that breaks or undergoes plastic deformation after a slight stretch and have another that goes on stretching in a linear fashion over a much longer distance per unit length when increasing tensile "pressure" is applied. The Young's modulus just determines the percentage elongation when a tensile force per unit area is applied, over the range the material obey's Hooke's law, where force is proportional to elongation, but not what the limit of elongation is. Though most materials will reduce in cross sectional area when stretched, so this has to be taken into account over larger stretch ranges.
The best revenge Howard could have ever had against Sheldon was winning the Nobel and causing Sheldon to question his existence. Sheldon getting the Nobel was rewarding him for his selfish, self-centered brutal treatment of everyone.
But that is actually a very easy question.. I have learnt that last year, even though I'm a food technologist from a mediocre university. These questions weren't really hard.
speebyda that's a show and how can you decide what happend? He obviously knew! He, in the show, is shown as a know-it-all and he would have answered but to make the show funny they had the dialogue "i can stop checking my stool"
speebyda well, once, he could not answer a question In season 1 in the competition (when raj, howard and leonard with Leslie went against shelldon, in the physics ball\bawl)
he didn't even get the first right... as others have pointed, young's modulus characterizes a material stiffness, not its strength... strength is characterized by either yield strength, ultimate strength or fatigue strength (or endurance limit) depending on which load case and material you're designing.
I actually knew the Rhombicosidodecahedron one! As a kid my math teacher had a cool-looking poster of one, and I liked it so much I remembered it. My kids were blown away when I shouted out the answer along with them.
Gees, it;s a totally greek name, I am Greek myself and when they were shouting, even if I played it 5 times on the row, I barely was able to catch the dodecahydron part only. So, it's rhomb 20 then.... thanks for mentioning...
xProdigy1994 He ment that if you are going to question knowledge of a dr. in theo physics, asking qustions from SCHOOL is just laughable. We all learned about this when we were 13 or 14, and Sheldon started college at the age of 11.
you probably couldn't give a complete rigorous mathematical answer to the last one; science has varying degrees of difficulty to answer the same one. the actual answer takes into account viscosity and laminar vs turbulent flow. also howard even mentioned pouiseille's law himself
Sheldon may have a great deal of knowledge about engineering but he lacks Howard's prodigious skill and experience. Sheldon may have the knowledge but Howard has the skill. Plus unlike Sheldon, Howard has made more contributions than Sheldon has in his 10 years at Caltech.
HAHAHAH! Like a malfunctioning space toilet that left shit floating around in the ISS? HAHAHAHAHAHA Oh, this is hilarious, while Sheldon (in the TV series, not real life) is helping us understand the universe and its origins Howard is helping astronauts understand their digestive system by viewing what corn pieces were not digested!! HAHAHAHAHA
Has any of Sheldon's theories have ever been recognized or has he ever made a contribution to science at same level like Stephen Hawking or Albert Einstein? I think not. It's all about his ego.
Snake being Firstly, Howard has literally done less, he has created problems in the ISS rather than fix them, or improve on it. Secondly, we have no idea as to whether Sheldon has done so or not, as it is not mentioned, at least I cannot remember it being mentioned, before.
Sheldon hasn't made a major contribution during his time at CalTech, but before that he seems to have been successful (i.e. being the youngest person to win the Stevenson Prize). Howard has made a malfunctioning zero gravity waste disposal system (space toilet), however he did go to the International Space Station. In conclusion I believe Sheldon contributed more to Science before CalTech, but the reverse is true during their time at CalTech.
That question for Youngs Module is the easiest one on Mechanical Engineering and i'm not even exaggereting. It is literally the first thing they tech you in Materials Resistant. And the other ones are amazingly easy aswell. That one of the flow rate depending of the pipes diameter is also one of the first things they teach you in Flow Mechanics.
Sheldon gave the wrong answer to the first question, even though Howard didn't recognise it. Young's modulus doesn't tell you the strength of materials, it tells you the stiffness. Strength is quantified by yield stress or ultimate tensile strength. It's possible to have a material with high Young's Modulus and low strength, you call that "brittle".
@@IamGrimalkin Dont know if you guys use strenght for specifically tensile stress, english is not my native language. Where im from when you say strenght of materials since its not an specific term, we are talking about a bunch of information mostly comming frrom stress vs strain graphs
Howard: "Asking me a bunch of questions on a subject I'm not familiar with doesn't prove anything, I could do the same to you." Also Howard: *Proceeds to ask Sheldon questions on a subject he DOES know* Dude should've grabbed Penny and had her ask Sheldon on anything she's an expert in and it would've proved his point.
Both equally in their own way. Sheldon in theory, Howard in terms of practical. They're definitely the most amusing 2 characters and they're definitely the 2 characters that have the most growth....
Young modulus is only applicable on isotropic materials for motions where the deformation gradient is very small, and it is possible to linearize the tensorial relation between stress and strain.
Joe Lu yes but may be I can say about only India As you can see from some comments . The questions he asked where Grade 10 to 12 which are before joining a bachelors degree in Engineering at a university. We have harder questions than this in engineering degree entrance examinations.
Anand M S lol, no you don't, there's no way you learn surface integrals in high school. I asked my Indian friends, they said they don't learn that thing. Do you even know what surface integral is? Please, even Chinese don't learn that in high school.
What I like about this shoe is their friendship based on their similar passions which they share 100 per cent. In reality that can be difficult to find, but totally great if you can.
Young's Modulus (also known as Elastic Modulus) is used to calculate the tensile or compressive strength of an object (meaning how far you can stretch or squish an object before it breaks) and is calculated by simply dividing the Stress of the object by the Strain of the object. The Stress an object is calculated by dividing the force applied to it by the area (which technically gives Compressive Stress, but not Tensile Stress, but it's still "technically" the same), and Strain is calculated by dividing the change in length of the object by the original length. Come on Howard, I thought this was supposed to be inspirational to engineers, but this is literally 5th grade math 😂 Y = St / Sr St = F / A Sr = X2 / X1 No exponents, no logarithms, not even multistep division, it's literally just dividing two simple things. The only way I can see anyone tripping up on this is if they don't know what Force is, but that's literally just Mass times Acceleration (F = MA, which can be remembered as the abbreviation for Full Metal Alchemist (FMA)) Even Raj asks if that was right like if he'd never heard of it!!!!
I don't know too much about the Eddy Current one, but Sheldon saying "laminate the core material" implies the principle of a Faraday Cage, which is where you isolate waves from an object by wrapping it up in tin foil (when your phone doesn't have any signal because you're in the basement or inside a sealed metal room, like a refrigerator), so I think if I know what exactly Eddy Currents were, I'd be able to deduce an answer based on sheer logic. "How does the flow rate in a pipe depend on it's diameter?" Bruh.....have you never played with a garden hose before? The smaller the diameter = the the higher the water pressure = the higher the flow rate. Young's Modulus was the only one that couldn't be answered with sheer logic!!!!
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