Hammering Home Your Driving Style

(This is in a differential equations course.)

Professor: So, for example, if an engineer wants to know how the suspension will respond to different scenarios, it is pretty easy to find the response to hitting the suspension with a hammer.”

(The professor writes a sample differential equation to demonstrate this calculation.)

Professor: “However, the engineer probably cares more about how the suspension responds to other scenarios, such as a speed bump, since you aren’t hitting your suspension with a hammer while you are driv—”

Student: *yelling from back* “Don’t tell me how to drive!”