Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for December 28, 2021

Where did he come up with an upside-down Delta?

Gibberish

Helps if you can read Vulcan and Klingon.

Dad is smarter than you realize, kid.

Been a long time since I’ve started my day with the tensor form of Bernoulli’s equation.

I have a calculus problem with my teeth.

Nice, for a change, to see a dad portrayed as someone of intelligence instead of a sorry dweeb or couch potato. Of course, a brainy Dad may not be as funny as a Know-Nothing Dad.

I wouldn’t count on it…

What good is calculus, algebra and geometry???

I had calculus at 8am/5days/wk in community college many orbits ago. Fortunately, my last semester was just before I transferred to a university as a junior. Reason being, my first upper division engineering class was ‘Fourier Series Analysis using Bessel Functions’. I would have been DIW had I not completed integral calculus the month before.

Wow. the Dad isnt an idiot.

And he thought he would never use calculus after he graduated

But what is the JOKE? Dad can’t have “guessed” this complex and unusual equation, and if the kid knows that Dad has indeed helped, he knows enough calc to get the answer himself.