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
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.
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.
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.
@@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
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.
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)
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
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
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.
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.
None of the questions asked by Howard was hard. I answered tougher questions than those in entrance examinations to enter engineering course in university.
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.
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.
@@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.
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
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. :)
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
If Howard wanted to out Sheldon in the spot to test his engineering skills he shouldn’t have asked questions, but make him built something just as he does
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.
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...
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.
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.
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!!!!
Actually, the question about the flow rate in a pipe should have a different answer than that given by Howard. The Poiseouille law expresses the unit energy loss as a function of flow rate, diameter and fluid viscosity in a pipe when the flow regime is laminar. In my opinion, Howard answer is incorrect or at least incomplete. You cannot simply relate the flow rate in a pipe with the only knowledge of the diameter. The flow rate is given by the surface integral of the elementary flow velocity Flux, and you can calculate it analitically only under lamirar flow hypothesis. In turbulent flow regime you simply can not evaluate the above mentioned integral, so you should resort the the concept of cross section averaged velocity.
How do you quantify the strength of materials? Wtf Howard, and I thought engineering was supposed to be tough! Anybody could have answered those questions. And I don't know why Raj or even Leonard would ask if the first question is right... it seems awfully unlikely for them not to know. Bad writing imo.
Don't make assumptions about a subject based on a show. There are plenty of tough questions that could've been asked but weren't asked for whatever reason(s).
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.
really?! "how to prevent an eddy current in a transformer?" considered a hard question?! and sheldon couldn't answer the flow rate relation with pipe diameter which is even simpler question???! Please! Engineers deals with much harder concepts than this.
You didn't get the joke? It's not that he couldn't answer the question. He reduced the diameter of his esophagus to increase the flow rate of air, which is how he got the spitball out.
oh loool! i didn't get that the first time. but what i meant by my first point was that all the engineering questions asked by Howards are not considered hard engineering questions that you would try to challenge a Physicist to answer..
+kungfu911 A question like a flow rate relation with the pipe diameter is a very specific question. If you can pull it out in a second it's because you remember the final solution. It's not related to how simple the question is, but to how good your memory is.
@@itaibh1 More to the point, as Engineers go, is Howard even a particularly good one? The point might have been to illustrate that Howard specifically just isn't that advanced, not Engineers in general.
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"Because we were awkward and weird and couldn't play sports!!" "Right again!!" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Story of my life.
+Maddy Hatter I know you feel
I rather be a nerd and actually contribute something worthwhile to mankind than be someone who abuses society's corrupt as fame
+John shao speak the truth
Story of my life and all nerds lol
That third question was brilliant! Sheldon, instead of answering the question, applied it to his throat!
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.
3rd one actually is the easiest one. The 1st 2 are taught in grade 11 and 12 but the 3rd one is taught in grade 9.
these questions were a piece of cake, how about some real engineering questions
@@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
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.
That may have been my favorite scene in the whole show
They just got meaner and meaner with each other.
yeah, that is a nice moment
Is this only a male thing or do nerdy girls get together and do something similar?
A question about Eddy Current was the hard one? No wonder Sheldon mocks Howard...
srsly dude i knew that when i was 14
For real tho, that's like electrical engineering 101
I just thought american education was that easy somehow!
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.
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).
had304 Fair enough and very true.
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.
just ask him who is Radio head and he's stumped
Knott Reel Sheldon would be the first to go in such an event. I say it would be a toss up between Leonard and Penny.
The fact that Howard can keep up with people with a phd and sometimes stun them says a lot about him.
anybody can do that
Penny does this a couple of times...
@@beanboy9029 Not true.
@@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
@@beanboy9029 i bet your IQ is the level of a shoe size
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.
+Triablos and what is more stupid is that Raj doesn't know Young's Modulus cause he asked if he was right!!! and he is PhD in Astrophysics!!!
+Triablos
Well of course, the writers are dummies.
+Kamikaze Chinaman they have a particle phycicist write the physics stuff his name is david saltzberg
+Sheldon Cooper And we've established that he's a dumbass writer
+Triablos I would have asked Sheldon how to drive
The funny thing is, all Howard really had to ask was “now how would you utilize those concepts in a practical application?” And he’d be stumped.
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
@@craftysnail5912 Sheldon invented 3 way chess
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.
My husband who's an engineer was spouting off those answers faster than Sheldon. I love my nerdy hubby!
These Questions are high school level physics
@@biswadeepsen3108 lmao I know right.
Your husband said laminating the core prevents Eddie currents? Would you mind telling him that he is wrong...
@@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.
@@piratenu1 dose'nt it ??? laminations of metal with insulating layers
Or just ask him who's radiohead?
MsJubjubbird while Sheldon starts blinking with his eyes ^^
+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)
I loved how nerdy and passionate they are about science and maths that they completly forgot about they were having a fight. It warmed my heart!
the questions are high school level physics
You studied variational principle in high school?
yeye
Mimin Rdx lmao what kind of highschool did you went to?
PolliitoAle lmao.....the ghost of albert enstein is our 4th grade teacher......that kind of high school
that's cuz it's engineering lol and just conceptual
i really love the ending.episodes like this make the viwers realise why they actually stay friends after they all act horrible to each other
That last bit with them around the candy bowl was so wholesome.
I love how it went from ripping on eachothers' intellect to a friendly quiz game
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
love how they get angry, and then they forgive and find resolution at the end. I wish real life was this easy. People are just not this nice
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
That eddy currents one is found in my old tenth grade textbook! And also, you can't PREVENT eddy currents in a transformer, only REDUCE them.
I think introduction to it was in 7th 8th icse textbook
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.
True; but they are also pretty hard for Howard as well.
@@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
Yeah, I feel like "flow rate through a pipe" is standard physics, why wouldn't Sheldon know it, or at least be able to derive it on the spot?
The show makes much more sense if you assume that it was created and written by people who hate intelligence with a passion.
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
I know. The hardest question is why the girls didn't like them in High School
@@chauci14 because I had a this porno moustache where every girls used to afraid of.
Exactly. These are high school questions
Exactly . These are high school questions in India
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!
I just learned a new word that's super fun to say! Rhombicosidodecahedron!
*Rhombicosidodecahedron
You lost me after R
rhombicoeidodecahedron
Try my word hfufojdvlgchudbkybkfcg...
@@onelove5525 That's just the word "the" in Welsh.
youngs modulus determines the stiffness of material, not strength. Strength is determined by yield strength.....
Right with the first one, wrong with the second one. Strength is determined by testing materials to breaking point - ultimate strength.
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.
You are all wrong strength is HM #4 in pokemon.
+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.
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.
I know I would feel like a genius if I asked Sheldon what buttons to push and he couldn't get it
I know which buttons to push!!!
I think he knew what the answer was but obviously the small spitball was coming up his throat or sum like that
Last scene was so wholesome, they celebrating each other
None of the questions asked by Howard was hard. I answered tougher questions than those in entrance examinations to enter engineering course in university.
That's because we're Indians ... Tryna get into IITs
@@izzzy14 forget IITs, all the questions were of boards level, one markers....
@@izzzy14 bro it's basic even for americans ,,, the questions that come in olympiads are way tougher than iit's ,,
Look who we got in this comment section, bunch of whore pussies
I love the look on Howard's face at 0:35!
Love how they all got back together because of how smart awesomely smart they are😂
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.
Can you give me some examples of such shows from the 80’s about nerds?
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.
@@subratanandy2142 You learned about Young's Modulus in high school? ... Why?
0:34 I'm surprised Raj didn't know that. Young's modulus is basic -"Intro to Physics" level material XD
It’s so funny how it started from a rivalrous competition to them just having fun
2:00 Sheldon : because I was 3 years old
You violated the sanctity of my mouth😂😂
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.
0:50 finally for chemical engineers!
Young's modulus isn't really the strength of material, it's about the stiffness of material.
same difference bruh
Most materials can be defined on their yield strength, so Youngs modulus counts
So MIT grads are supposed to use slang for technical aspects. 😂
@@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.
Finally, someone who actually knows about engineering terms
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
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. :)
+R Bharathkumar & LadyLion121 You both learned about eddy currents in transformers ... in physics class no less? And what's theoretical about them?
+LadyLion121 Its a show. Even though i'm an Engineering Technologist, and know the answers, the general public wouldn't know them
Proves Sheldon's point
John shao Haha! It does, doesn't it?
U Must Agree to Google+ Terms Tho U Don't Want It lol
Howard should've asked him how to use a tool box!🤣😂😂😂🤣🤣
This is my favourite scene from TBBT like ever.
It is two scenes.
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.
What would Howard get a Nobel prize for? The only contribution he had to anything was being an astronaut
wow that joke at 1:07 is really genius lol. didnt get it till i watched it again
i dont think i got it :/
Joanne S. howard asks sheldon a question about a flow rate of a pipe, then sheldon starts choking.
The black shirt 😂
2022 0:53 Sheldon: 😦 😂🤣
Howard: 😦 😂🤣
Raj: is that right?
Walowitz: ….. yeah
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Sheldon was impressed when Howard became an astronaut. At least that’s one cool thing Sheldon can’t say he ever did.
These are a wholesome group of pals who enjoy good wisdom.
1st question is basic GCSE / A level Physcis
2nd i actually didn't know
3rd one is also very easy
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
The second one is also A level physics
3rd question can be derived from Darcy weisback eq.. Assuming pipe is straight and uniform throught length...
F directly proportional to Diameter^5
Those questions were really easy i studied them in like 7th or 8th standard except the eddy current one which i studied this year in 12th
1:43 as mixed as my feelings have become towards this show, damn I love solids, Archimedean and Platonic
were those questions hard ones ???they are in schools txtbooks
i mean, if you are going to learn stuff it would be great to find them in books ... and it would be even greater to find them in school textbooks
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.
Genevieve17, I was taught these things at school.
+Genevieve17 That's because those are not 'engineering' questions. Just basic Physics
***** 😱😱😱 whoa. That-s fucked up
I am sure this is how students at Cambridge University from Mathematical Department spend their spare time
It's worse in mathematics departments. This is just engineering/physics departments.
0:34 I love how he says "Yea" Like "Damn you bastard"
Sheldon likely would've answered Howard's third question had he not been coughing.
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.
@@RodrigoSantos-jl3pc Don't worry-I've already read those other comments.
It’s amazing Howard never slapped Sheldon
He should have, more than once, someone needed to, for sure!
The last question though😂😂😂
I love how those 2 were fighting at first then after a while they become good friends again, I don't understand how their friendship works lol
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.
"'Tweety Bird tawt he taw a what?'" "Romulan."
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
@@Ridisword
Well, strength could also refer to compressive stress or shear stress; but it doesn't generally refer to stiffness.
For the last one its litteraly Bernoulli's principle
@@thegamexpert4830 more Darcy-Weisbach as Bernoulli's principle does not take real world effects like viscosity and friction into account
1:02 Sheldon coughs up the spitball from his mouth
If Howard wanted to out Sheldon in the spot to test his engineering skills he shouldn’t have asked questions, but make him built something just as he does
Come on. Pretty sure Sheldon learnt all of that in high school anyways. Should've given him a real question
I think he skipped high school because he went to college when he was 11.
Rex Galilae you learn fluid dynamics in high school?
Joe Lu, only the basics. Like how basic the question was.
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.
@Flatulence The Unending It's the only way they can feel smart.
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...
He didn't mention the critical point that the transformer laminations must be perpendicular to the eddy current flow lines, not parallel them.
I'm just glad this episode has a happy ending.
Sheldon and Howard competing to see who is smarter can be very thrilling.
that quiz scene 🤣
(gasp) "IT'S NOT EVEN EASTER TIME! THIS IS CRAZY!!"
The Questions Howard asked were not so much difficult and can be answered by high school students. Can't be considered as engineering questions.. :P
Class 11
Anand M S I think that's probably part of "Howard only has a masters degree" comedy situation LOL
Anand M S you learn fluid dynamics, surface integral in high school? You learned electrical engineering in high school?
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.
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....
practice beats theory
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.
Finally we get an ep where Howard stands up to Sheldon!
Well , the questions that Howard made are based on physics 1 and 2..
I don't know why people hate this show... it's hillarious!
maybe to you. to me its unrealistic misogenistic, and biring. it needs,a shot of Neil De Grasse Tyson
@@tomgardner8825 he was on there he was part of a joke involving sheldons favourite planet Pluto being demoted.
@@tomgardner8825 How the hell is it misogynistic?
@@tomgardner8825 you must be a hardcore feminist.
@@tomgardner8825femboyyyyy
Even the TH-cam pronunciation converter didn't understand the last question answer 😂😂😂
Its Poiseulle's Law
Howard’s questions were in my intro phys class in high school lol
see, that's all I want - friends with whom you can do smartass things and be proud of it. Just art, history and literature in my case.
I agree, thats why I love the last part
LotsOfThingsLover lol same
I don't know why, but I think it's really nice how the men heal themselves at the end.
You violated the sanctity of my mouth.
I've always wondered how Alex (from Modern Family) would have felt among this group
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!!!!
Actually, the question about the flow rate in a pipe should have a different answer than that given by Howard. The Poiseouille law expresses the unit energy loss as a function of flow rate, diameter and fluid viscosity in a pipe when the flow regime is laminar. In my opinion, Howard answer is incorrect or at least incomplete. You cannot simply relate the flow rate in a pipe with the only knowledge of the diameter. The flow rate is given by the surface integral of the elementary flow velocity Flux, and you can calculate it analitically only under lamirar flow hypothesis. In turbulent flow regime you simply can not evaluate the above mentioned integral, so you should resort the the concept of cross section averaged velocity.
Are you a wizard?
@@OchiiDinUmbraa what?
Knowing what we know about Howard, I can well understand Sheldon’s paranoia over catching an STD from that spitball.
I just like how it started as a fight then became a game
How do you quantify the strength of materials? Wtf Howard, and I thought engineering was supposed to be tough! Anybody could have answered those questions.
And I don't know why Raj or even Leonard would ask if the first question is right... it seems awfully unlikely for them not to know. Bad writing imo.
Don't make assumptions about a subject based on a show. There are plenty of tough questions that could've been asked but weren't asked for whatever reason(s).
laminated core for a transformer? That's just basic jejje
Started out as a fight, but then would end up with them just having fun. Fight forgotten.
One of the few moments where Sheldon and the Gang genuinely get along.
howard asked the most easy engineering question :/
"that was a hard one!"
-_- come on bro, we're stupid but not that stupid
That fact that I know what Youngs Modulus and Laminating the core mean makes me feel so much smarter
I love this episode so far
These are intro level engineering questions.
+apotheos1s To hear everyone else around here, they're practically elementary school questions.
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.
Funnily enough, Young's Modulus does NOT say a lot about the strength of a material
is everyone going to pass by the fact that sheldon regurgitated a spit ball like a cat?
The questions Howard asked was high school material.
Not mine lol, or maybe I didnt pay attention in advanced physics
really?! "how to prevent an eddy current in a transformer?" considered a hard question?! and sheldon couldn't answer the flow rate relation with pipe diameter which is even simpler question???! Please! Engineers deals with much harder concepts than this.
I didn't even understand the 1st question :( I'll just leave
You didn't get the joke? It's not that he couldn't answer the question. He reduced the diameter of his esophagus to increase the flow rate of air, which is how he got the spitball out.
oh loool! i didn't get that the first time. but what i meant by my first point was that all the engineering questions asked by Howards are not considered hard engineering questions that you would try to challenge a Physicist to answer..
+kungfu911 A question like a flow rate relation with the pipe diameter is a very specific question. If you can pull it out in a second it's because you remember the final solution. It's not related to how simple the question is, but to how good your memory is.
@@itaibh1 More to the point, as Engineers go, is Howard even a particularly good one? The point might have been to illustrate that Howard specifically just isn't that advanced, not Engineers in general.
In reality, no one knows everything. There are lots of things Sheldon doesn't know.
He's just too big headed to realize that.
Love that they turned it into a game.