18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 36

[cahn]

Starting a couple of comments earlier than usual to mention there are a couple of new salon fics! These probably both need canon knowledge.

felis ficlets on siblings!

Siblings (541 words) by felisnocturna
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: 18th Century CE RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great, Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf, August Wilhelm von Preußen | Augustus William of Prussia (1722-1758), Wilhelmine von Preußen | Wilhelmine of Prussia (1709-1758)
Summary:

Three Fills for the 2022 Three Sentence Ficathon.

Chapter One: Protective Action / Babysitting at Rheinsberg (Frederick/Fredersdorf, William+Henry+Ferdinand)
Chapter Two: Here Be Lions (Wilhelmine)

Unsent Letters fic by me:

Letters for a Dead King (1981 words) by raspberryhunter
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 18th Century CE RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great & Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig von Preußen (1726-1802)
Characters: Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig von Preußen | Henry of Prussia (1726-1802)
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Love/Hate, Talking To Dead People, Canonical Character Death, Dysfunctional Family
Summary:

Just because one's king and brother is dead doesn't mean one has to stop writing to him.

Comments

Math and physics

[mildred_of_midgard]

Similar but slightly different for me. Assuming you'd had single variable calculus in high school, it went:

First semester: multivariate calculus for math; Newtonian mechanics for physics
Second semester: vector calculus for math; waves, optics, and thermo for physics
Third semester: linear algebra for math; electromagnetics for physics

First semester mechanics expected you to know at least vector calc, so what happened was that the first-semester mechanics class basically taught a crash course in linear algebra in the middle so that they could do any of it went ahead and did it anyway, telling you "you should already know this," notwithstanding that the prereq for course enrollment in the official catalog was "concurrent enrollment in multivariate calc." *banging head*

Whether we were expected to know Taylor series but never taught them, covered them but I forgot, or I just didn't stick around long enough to encounter them, I have no idea. (Suspect the third, though.)