It's frustrating to knowenough about something to make formal statements and know how to state relationships between things (i.e diffy Qs), but not enough to be fooled by subtle shit.
>be me
>write a paper for my physics class on waves
>trying to derive the Taylor-von Neuman blast radius equation
>trying to fit density into the picture
>remember sound travels faster in solids than liquids, and it travels faster in liquids than gases
>what do these things have in common such that $k_{s}>k_{l}>k_{g}$?
>Ah yes, of course
>"density is directly proportional to wave speed in a medium"
>have to say the radius is inversely proportional to blast radius later to make sense of things, justify it with intuition.
>send the paper
>go about my day
>in my toilet taking a shit
>how the fuck can it be directly proportional to speed and inversely proportional to blast radius?
>realize I fucked up


Didn't even think about elasticity modulus, fuck me. I had to send my prof a corrected version.