Groom's cake

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TennTradition said:
I had two cheesecakes as my groom's cakes. I'll have to see if I can get some pictures on here. One was a UT cake - but it was made in Cincinnati, so it probably wasn't very accurate. The other was my nerd cake - it had the Schrodinger Equation going around the perimeter with a collection of my favorite equations inside that circle. It was perhaps the pinnacle of my geakdom..and that is saying something :)
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You have a collection of favorite equations?:birgits_giggle:
 
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rwemyss said:
:aggressive:

Wemyss%20Coat%20Of%20Arms.jpg
Best pic I could find on the net... it was just the shield part.

:machgun:USAF
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I just find coat of arms funny thats all, nothing against you.
 
#33
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TennTradition said:
The other was my nerd cake - it had the Schrodinger Equation going around the perimeter with a collection of my favorite equations inside that circle. It was perhaps the pinnacle of my geakdom..and that is saying something :)
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Wow...just wow.

Please, give me a sampling of your favorite equations.
 
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vader said:
Wow...just wow.

Please, give me a sampling of your favorite equations.
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ok...assuming you are not just baiting me here....(or taking the bait if you are)

Well, the Schrodinger is probably one of my favorites, which I mentioned earlier. Oddly enough, my research now centers around applying this equation to solve quantum chemistry problems. I didn't have a clue my research would be in quantum chemistry when I chose this equation as the key equation for the cake (I know...pinnacle of geekdom, like I said). It can be solved applying eigenvalues, which is pretty neat. Also, its application can answer questions about how electrons behave at the atomic level - which is pretty amazing to me.


I would say that perhaps my most favorite is e^(i*pi) = -1. It is pretty amazing. It contains so many basics of math - the natural logarithm, imaginary number, pi, negative number, and an identity. It is pretty much the bone-in filet of math identities IMO :).

I am also a big fan of f(x) = lamda*x*(1-x), which is a simple description of chaos and bifurcation theory. I'm a big meteorology buff and Edward Lorenz did some awesome work with chaos theory development from weather studies (still the basis for why weather patterns can't be predicted outside 10 days or so). I kind of fell into chaos theory as a result.

Although it is often overused, e = mc^2 tells a pretty amazing story. I am a HUGE nuclear energy and nuclear history buff - and that equation gave the answer before the scientists new the right questions to ask.

I'll try to find a picture of the cake...I know we have it somewhere...
 
#36
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TennTradition said:
ok...assuming you are not just baiting me here....(or taking the bait if you are)

Well, the Schrodinger is probably one of my favorites, which I mentioned earlier. Oddly enough, my research now centers around applying this equation to solve quantum chemistry problems. I didn't have a clue my research would be in quantum chemistry when I chose this equation as the key equation for the cake (I know...pinnacle of geekdom, like I said). It can be solved applying eigenvalues, which is pretty neat. Also, its application can answer questions about how electrons behave at the atomic level - which is pretty amazing to me.


I would say that perhaps my most favorite is e^(i*pi) = -1. It is pretty amazing. It contains so many basics of math - the natural logarithm, imaginary number, pi, negative number, and an identity. It is pretty much the bone-in filet of math identities IMO :).

I am also a big fan of f(x) = lamda*x*(1-x), which is a simple description of chaos and bifurcation theory. I'm a big meteorology buff and Edward Lorenz did some awesome work with chaos theory development from weather studies (still the basis for why weather patterns can't be predicted outside 10 days or so). I kind of fell into chaos theory as a result.

Although it is often overused, e = mc^2 tells a pretty amazing story. I am a HUGE nuclear energy and nuclear history buff - and that equation gave the answer before the scientists new the right questions to ask.

I'll try to find a picture of the cake...I know we have it somewhere...
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IMO, you are king of the nerds here...and I say that respectfully.:worship:
 
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rwemyss said:
Traditionally you have two cakes at a wedding. The "wedding cake" (big tall thing that everyone thinks of) and a "groom's cake". The groom's cake usually says something about the groom in some way... in this case, a power T for UT. My brother's was our family coat of arms. :rock:
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Is this a southern thing? I don't think i have ever seen one of those at a wedding.
 
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vader said:
IMO, you are king of the nerds here...and I say that respectfully.:worship:
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:hi: .... :eek:lol:

While I am a nerd ... I'm a nerd in a different way. I have a lot of respect for the IT, AV, and computer nerds around here. That is actually useful information!

edit: and oh yeah, I don't think that I've ever disclosed that the source of my avatar is a Femlab simulation of water flowing through pipes to spell UT. I tried to get the flow field around the letters instead of through, but it doesn't look that good...I figured I would just get all this geek stuff out today so I don't have to hold it inside anymore :cray:
 
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Love FEMLAB. (now called COMSOL) Takes some real understanding to use properly though.

Vader was seriously curious. We're all engineer nerds, there's sort of a brotherhood there.
 
#44
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rwemyss said:
Love FEMLAB. (now called COMSOL) Takes some real understanding to use properly though.

Vader was seriously curious. We're all engineer nerds, there's sort of a brotherhood there.
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I figured he was - he seemed that way, at least :)

Yeah..I say Femlab, but I guess it is marketed under Comsol Multiphysics now. I'm actually getting ready to order the Chemical Engineering module so that I can do some non-isothermal flow calculations that I need for the reactor design portion of my thesis research. I just have the basic Multiphysics package right now - which can be pretty limiting when trying to model real systems.

Have you ever used Matlab code to feed into a Comsol simulation before? I am going to need to link up my kinetic model in Matlab to solve the kinetic system of equations for each finite element along my catalyst surface.....

any help/suggestions?
 
#46
#46
TennTradition said:
I figured he was - he seemed that way, at least :)

Yeah..I say Femlab, but I guess it is marketed under Comsol Multiphysics now. I'm actually getting ready to order the Chemical Engineering module so that I can do some non-isothermal flow calculations that I need for the reactor design portion of my thesis research. I just have the basic Multiphysics package right now - which can be pretty limiting when trying to model real systems.

Have you ever used Matlab code to feed into a Comsol simulation before? I am going to need to link up my kinetic model in Matlab to solve the kinetic system of equations for each finite element along my catalyst surface.....

any help/suggestions?
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:mf_surrender: I am now but a simple structural designer/CAD monkey. The ease of my job has made me lazy(er) and (more)stupid.
 
#48
#48
My husband's groom's cake had a Mardi Gras theme (he's from New Orleans). Better than the LSU cake he really wanted...

Our wedding favors were goodie bags with Little Debbie Swiss Cake Rolls, Little Debbie Oatmeal Pies, Moonpies and Brock's/Brach's candy.
We called it "A Taste of Chattanooga"!
 
#49
#49
Thats cool! Im from NO too and love the purple, green and gold! :good!:




RockyTopBrooke said:
My husband's groom's cake had a Mardi Gras theme (he's from New Orleans). Better than the LSU cake he really wanted...

Our wedding favors were goodie bags with Little Debbie Swiss Cake Rolls, Little Debbie Oatmeal Pies, Moonpies and Brock's/Brach's candy.
We called it "A Taste of Chattanooga"!
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