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Old 04-30-2012, 03:43 PM
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Not so advanced. 2nd from left is Maxwell's Equations in differential form. Sophomore physics (Electricity & Magnetism).
(Amazed that I still recognize them after 40 years!)
I, of all the people, know -- "maxwelld" is meant to stand for "Maxwell's Daemon"

Apparently something has changed in a typical undergraduate physics curriculum over last thirty or so years -- I taught college physics ten-fifteen years ago and for sophomore-level E&M we would only cover Maxwell's equations in the honors sequence.

Nontheless, let's see what is written on girls backs.
from left to right ->

girl #1: general relativity: Lorentz transformation in the form of hyperbolic rotation in Minkowski space, Einstein equations, Cristoffel symbols.

girl #2: Maxwell's equations in differential form.

girl #3: Newton's second law, principle of least action, conservation law in the form of energy-momentum tensor, wave equation, Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution.

girl #4: Representation of Heisenberg uncertainty principle via commutation relationship, time-dependent Schrodinger equation, Feynman diagram of beta decay, Klein-Gordon equation (=relativistic version of Schrodinger eq.), Lie group representation of gauge symmetry in so-called Standard Model.
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