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  • 0ops@lemm.eetoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldCar
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    23 days ago

    I’ve never owned an auto, only manuals. But there’s been a couple times when I drove automatics for friends and family and accidently slammed my left foot into the floor or brake due to muscle memory. The pedals are close together in modern manual cars so you can heal toe, and automatic gas pedals are nearly always wider, because why wouldn’t they be?

    So yeah, not only do I believe op drives a manual, I bet they do it often enough that when they do drive an auto they have to consciously hold their left foot back. I know I have to. I’ve been using a clutch too long, my left foot just wants to go.






  • 0ops@lemm.eetomemes@lemmy.worldHow does he do it?!
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    2 months ago

    Not as many people know that he was the father of calculus (along with Gottfried Leibniz who figured it out independently around the same time). That’s really where all the heavy lifting was in elementary mechanics, where by using the laws as something of a base case (especially the 2nd, F=dP/dt), calculus could be used to project an objects future motion. So in a way, it was by calculus that the laws could be shown as accurate in the first place.

    I think Kepler deserves some credit too, that dude basically figured out a specific application of calculus in the motion of orbitals before Newton’s and Leibniz’s general calculus even existed.