Physicists vs Normal People

Brake*

Sorry, just bugged me ><

depends on if you're being followed by a cyber truck too closely, or not.
Likewise
NGL I stole this meme and was stoo lazy to fix it
- Too*
  (You asked for this. Asked for it!)
You’d be surprised how many “normal” people don’t know the difference
- Peek and peak upsets me all the time too! "Duel wield" is another one. While we're at it, people who pronounce melee as Me Lee. It should sound like May Lay.
- Well, it's easy. If you don't use the brake, the car could break.

Far left pedal is the clutch, not a second "break"

No, that's the anti-theft device.
- Only works in America though
- No, it's just a foot rest
I'm on mobile and could be wrong, but this picture looks like it's an automatic and that's a foot rest, not a clutch (nearly all Fords have a large plate like that in that spot to rest your left foot)
- It's generally called the dead pedal and yes, it's basically a footrest for your left foot. This meme is just awful and misspelled brake.
- Ahh you know I think you're right
That looks like a dead pedal (foot rest), not a clutch pedal. Normally only the gas pedal has a full pedal face on it. A clutch pedal normally looks like a brake pedal.
Edit: Eh someone already said this but I agree with them.
If you use it wrong enough then “break” becomes the proper spelling.

Forgot to label Earth as accelerator

Not to mention the driver’s hands and feet!

Brake.

Petrol. Gas isn't even a gas.
- Gasoline not petroleum.
- *Gasoline or diesel. Petroleum has to be refined first before use in a car.
- "Gas" doesnt refer to its state of matter, it's short for gasoline.
- Ok, then how about the directional circle, solid pedal, and liquid pedal?
- But it was originally derived from coal gas back in the 3rd quarter of the 19th century, when the first internal combustion engine for transportation application was being developed.
Cookie-Chocolate-Bar

Is it an accelerator? Or is it a jerk pedal? Technically the gas pedal controls the change in acceleration, right?

I definitely have friends

Technically the gas pedal controls the change in acceleration, right?
Technically it controls the amount of air and/or fuel delivered to the engine (in a gas engine, the pedal directly controls airflow; in a diesel engine it directly controls fuel flow)
- A valve controller, yes
Acceleration in physics terms just means a change in velocity. Velocity is speed in a given direction. The steering wheel, gas pedal, and brake pedal all accelerate the vehicle.
- Acceleration in physics terms just means a change in velocity. Velocity is speed in a given direction
  They definitely know that, given that they know that change in acceleration is called jerk
Increasing speed -> acceleration Decreasing speed -> negative acceleration Changing direction -> Vector acceleration(change in velocity)
No, if there is constant pressure on the accelerator, there is a constant acceleration on the car.
The jerk comes with the rate of change of pressure on the pedal (e.g. if you stomp on it)
That would make the driver the jerk 🤔

So normal people don't have an education? It is brake, how do you people keep making this mistake?

It's an Alfa, "Break" might be the correct terminology /s
Joke of course, I love Alfa's!
- Afaik native speakers make such mistakes more often, since they learned far more of the language by hearing than by reading
Well, I think you answered your own question 😅

Love this

~ physicist

No, one of them is the "don't accelerate" pedal you use to switch gears.

I think that car has a dead pedal, otherwise that is the fattest clutch pedal I have seen by a longshot.
- Exactly my thinking, looks like a dead pedal not a clutch.
  I've never seen a clutch bigger than the brake pedal.
- It could be the handbrake (well, footbrake). If that's the case, it's unusually close to the other pedals.
You're applying acceleration to the gear switcher
- Just like I'm applying acceleration to your mom

Okay student, now turn the accelerator and feather the accelerator as you accelerate into the curve, then press the accelerator to accelerate your acceleration out the curve.

Is the window my frame of reference?

“Accelerate… Decelerate” — Simon Phoenix

Break Gas? Never heard that expression before. I always thought it was "break wind". 😆💨

*BMW drivers

Well, with Alfas half of those accelerators probably don't work!
(Actually jk, afaik this is only an old-timey joke now)

You wouldn’t be able to press a gas with your foot though.

I can imagine a scenario where you a gas is encased in a volume that you can reduce by stepping on it with your foot, thus pressurizing it.
Depends on what you mean by "press" really
Moving your foot through a gas will displace the gas, and there will be a (albiet small) pressure difference around the foot as it moves through the gas. An increase on the side in direction of movement, a decrease on the opposite side of direction of movement, and some vortices on the sides.
Basically a very poorly designed wing.

Physicians: "It's all vector addition and differatials?"
Mathematicians: "Always has been."

There's this Finnish joke that doesn't translate well, about a physicist who got pulled over by police. "Uh, I guess I accelerated a bit."

Any change in velocity, amirite?