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A shtick (Yiddish: שטיק‎) is a comic theme or gimmick. The word entered the English language from the Yiddish shtik (שטיק), in turn derived from German Stück and Polish sztuka (both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *stukkiją), all meaning "piece" or "thing"; note that "Theaterstück" is the German
word for Play (theatre) (and is a synonym of "Schauspiel", literally "viewing play"
in contrast to the "Singspiel").
The English word "piece" is sometimes used in a similar context (e.g., a musical piece).
In stand-up comedy context a near equivalent term is a "bit". Another variant is "bits of business" or just "bits". Shtick may refer to an adopted persona, usually for comedy performances, that is maintained consistently (though not necessarily exclusively) across the performer's career. In this usage, the recurring personalities adopted by Laurel and Hardy through all of their many comedy films (although they often played characters with different names and occupations) would qualify as their shtick. A comedian might maintain several different shticks of this sort, particularly if appearing in a variety show encouraging development of multiple characters, such as Saturday Night Live.
In common usage, the word shtick has also come to mean any talent, style, habit, or other eccentricity for which a person is particularly well-known, even if not intended for comedic purposes. For example, a person who is known locally for an ability to eat dozens of hot dogs quickly might say that it was his shtick. Among Orthodox Jews, "shtick" can also refer to wedding shtick, in which wedding guests entertain the bride and groom through dancing, costumes, juggling, and silliness.
Because of its roots in show business, shtick has taken on connotation of a contrived and often used act. For this reason, journalists and commentators often apply the word disparagingly to stock replies from politicians.

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  1. S

    Engineering FEA question (stuck): Stress analysis on this Connecting Rod

    Hey Im doing FEA and got stuck on question. The diagram go me stuck, because looking through the workbook it says high stresses are in red and low in blue, whereas they included both different kind of stresses on the same diagram and no data. Note: High Compressive strains are noted by blue...
  2. B

    I Metal drinking cup is stuck inside a pressure cooker

    the steel glass is stuck diagonally inside the press cooker, getting it out by brute foce didn't work and neither are we able to rotate it. Washing it with soapy liquid didn't work either. Any ideas on how I can get the glass out?
  3. ka_reem13

    Understanding First Order ODEs and Intersection of Curves

    I'm aware that I can introduce the perimeter p = dy/dx then I can rearrange my equation to make y the subject, then I can show that dp/dx = p/x. However, this only gives me a bunch of quadratic curves for my solution. However given part b I see that two curves are meant to intersect each point...
  4. earthling75

    Stuck calculating probability of measuring ##S_y## for spin 1 particle

    I know how to construct Sy for spin = 1 case from the raising and lowering operators. I get $$ S_y=\frac{i\hbar}{\sqrt{2}}\begin{pmatrix} 0 & -1 & 0 \\ 1 & 0 & -1 \\ 0 & 1 & 0 \\ \end{pmatrix} $$ From what I have seen, the eigenspinor for $\hbar$ is found by solving $$...
  5. L

    I am stuck on a calculation -- Entropy change for a compound system

    Hi, Unfortunately, I have problems with the task 4 In task 3 I got the following $$ T_f=T_ie^{\Delta S_i - c_i} $$ Then I proceeded as follows $$ \Delta S = \Delta S_1 + \Delta S_1 $$ $$ \Delta S =c_1ln(\frac{T_ie^{\Delta S_i - c_i}}{T_1})+c_2ln(\frac{T_f}{T_2})$$ $$ \Delta S...
  6. Clockclocle

    I Stuck in understanding Newton's 3 laws

    I'm stuck to understand 3 laws of Newton. It doesn't make sense to me. 1. Suppose the case when a person stay in a rest vehicle.When we accelerate the car the person still at rest so the person has to move to the tail of the vehicle cause his intertia of staying rest. If we decrese the...
  7. G

    A Solving Equation 15.43 Line 2 to 3 in Tevian Dray's Differential Forms

    The equality is implied in the move from equation 15.43 line 2 to line 3. I do find Dray's book is admirably clear and absolutely says something I wish to understand, but my 78 year old brain has difficulty. However, in this case I can be precise about where I fail to follow. Oh! I find...
  8. shuumi

    Stuck in a question from exam -- Car decelerating to avoid hitting an obstacle

    i tried but i wasn't able, maybe i choose the wrong formulas in the wrong time.
  9. rylest

    Stuck on complex pipe system bending moment hand calcs

    Some more details on the system are that L1 is very long (close to 100ft) and L2 is close to 30ft (the vertical pipes). The piping is all schedule 40 1/2" OD. Moment of inertia is roughly 10^-8. Components are about 2kg each. The distance of the pipes horizontally is small (around 2ft). Pressure...
  10. A

    Is Your Reasoning on Track? Get Feedback and Graph Analysis!

    This is where I'm stucked i don't even know if my reasoning is correct.
  11. Bookdigger

    I'm Stuck on Solving This - R2 Confuses Me

    I tried solving this and realized that I have no idea what r2 is and I can't just insert an equation there
  12. M

    Electron Trajectory: Stuck on a difficult problem....

    I am very confused on how to go about with this question. The only thing I've tried so far is drawing the fbd of the electron and because of the plates the force applied would cancel which makes it centered between the two plates. As of now that is the only thing I understand, I am not sure how...
  13. Astronuc

    Freeing the stuck container ship Ever Given in the Suez Canal

    [Mentor Note -- Interesting engineering discussion from the Weird News GD thread moved to the General Engineering forum as its own thread] How That Massive Ship Got Stuck in the Suez Canal—and Why Nobody Can Get It Out...
  14. bob1352

    Solving a Problem with Velocity: Stuck and Need Help

    I sent the work divided by two equal to the velocity part of the problem then got stuck.
  15. Monoxdifly

    MHB [ASK] Stuck on a Quadratic Equation

    The equation (a-1)x^2-4ax+4a+7=0 with a is a whole number has positive roots. If x_1>x_2 then x_2-x_1=... A. –8 B. –5 C. –2 D. 2 E. 8 Since the equation has positive roots then x_1>0 and x_2>0 thus x_1+x_2>0 and x_1x_2>0 x_1+x_2>0 \frac{-(-4a)}{a-1}>0 x_1x_2>0 \frac{4a+7}{a-1}>0 However I...
  16. L

    MHB Why Does Triangle AOB Have Angles of 30, 30, and 120 Degrees?

    Please can anyone help me on how to work this out ?
  17. kyphysics

    IPAD update STUCK on "Preparing Update"

    https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/26/tech/iphone-ipad-ios-14-4-update/index.html Apple warned iphone and ipad users to updddate their systems today. I tried to on my iPad, but it's "stuck" on "Preparing Update." I tried shutting it down after 30-40 minutes (not sure if that messed up anything, as...
  18. C

    Det of Triangular-like Matrix & getting stuck in Algorithmic Proof

    Find determinant of following matrix: ## A = \begin{pmatrix} a_{1,1} & a_{1,2} & \cdots & a_{1,n-1} & a_{1,n} \\ a_{2,1} & a_{2,2} & \cdots & a_{2,n-1} & 0 \\ \vdots & \vdots & \ddots & \vdots & \vdots \\ a_{n,1} & 0 & \cdots & 0 & 0 \end{pmatrix} ## Note: I tried to solve this question...
  19. C

    Stuck at proving a bounded above Subsequence

    Summary:: x Let ## \{ a_{n} \} ## be a sequence. Prove: If for all ## N \in { \bf{N} } ## there exists ## n> N ## such that ## a_{n} \leq L ## , then there exists a subsequence ## \{ a_{n_{k}} \} ## such that ## a_{n_{k}} \leq L ## My attempt: Suppose that for all ## N \in {\bf{N}} ##...
  20. Leo Liu

    A piece of clay stuck to a SHM oscillator

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  21. jamalkoiyess

    Do you feel stuck in your research field?

    Does any researcher/scholar/professor here ever feel stuck with the field they have chosen to pursue? Do you ever feel it's too late to switch or regret not choosing something else while studying?
  22. C

    MHB Solve a Quadratic Equation with Vertex Form

    I know this is the equation I have to use a(x - h) 2 + k, but don't know what points to use and how to covert to vertex form
  23. LCSphysicist

    Stuck on Problem: Need Help Understanding P & Equation

    Actually, i don't even started the solution because i am confused, i am not sure what the question is asking, i tried to see the solution, but it was using , i don't know what that equation mean. Can you help me? P is like potential electricity, for gravitational force?
  24. moeug1999

    Help! I'm Stuck on an Equation My Professor Gave Me

    My professor does not walk us through the problem. He literally just gave us an equation and that's it. I do not know how to do this problem.
  25. T

    A Stuck on evaluating this functional determinant

    I am trying to show that given the following stochastic differential equation: ##\dot{x} = W(x(\tau))+\eta(\tau),## we have ##det|\frac{d\eta(\tau)}{dx(\tau')}| = exp^{\int_{0}^{T}d\tau \,Tr \ln([\frac{d}{d\tau}-W'(x(\tau))]\delta (\tau - \tau'))} = exp^{\frac{1}{2}\int_{0}^{T}d\tau...
  26. Z

    Stuck on Question A? Get Help Here!

    Hi, I have been trying to solve question A for a while now but keep getting stuck. Would anyone know what to do after this? My teacher told me that maybe I should try using the elastic limit (in part b) but normally if I had needed it, it would have been in the first part of the question.
  27. D

    Completely stuck - Attempting to construct a trommel

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  28. P

    Stuck on a few Vector homework problems

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  29. P

    I Stuck on the probability of rolling 'p' with 'n' s-sided dice

    Hi, I've been following the derivation of wolfram mathworld for this problem and I'm running into some trouble regarding the summation indices. Currently I am at the step where we have found that (it's pretty much just binomial expansion and taylor series to get to this point) $$ f(x) =...
  30. C

    Stuck Trying to Re-arrange Variables

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  31. KristinaMr

    How Do I Apply L'Hopital's Rule to Exponential Derivatives?

    I encountered this problem is Hopital section...how do I even apply it?
  32. E

    MHB Linear programming - Simplex Method - Stuck with picking the right 'generator'

    Dear All, Thank you for reading my post. I'm stuck with picking the correct 'generator' element in the attached example (Simplex method). As you can see, the solution keeps picking the yellow elements as 'generators', but I don’t understand why we can't choose the purple ones. Can somebody...
  33. D

    MHB Stuck on Derivation (Natural Deduction)

    1. ((N ⊃ P) ⊃ (I ⊃ P)) ⊃ ((P ⊃ I) ⊃ P) P 2. (I v X) ≡ (R ⊃ P) P 3. R ⊃ (I ⊃ (N ^ V)) P 4. R A 5. Reiteration of 3 6. I ⊃ (N ^ V) 3,4 ⊃E 7. I A 8. I v X 7, vI 9. Reiteration of 2...
  34. A

    I Stuck tray in the sink - How to separate

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  35. H

    What is the Well-Known Feedback Expression for Block Diagram Manipulation?

    Hello I hope someone can help me, as i am kinda stuck for the moment. As you can see, the assignment states that I need to find the poles from the closed loop transfer function. I plan on doing so, by using block diagram reduction method. This is as fare as I've come, and can't come...
  36. E

    MHB Solve My Constant Problem: Integral Sign + -2

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  37. opus

    Stuck on a vector problem: Boating across a river

    Homework Statement You wish to row straight across a 63 meter-wide river. You can row at a steady 1.3 m/s relative to the water and the river flows at 0.57 m/s. In what direction should you head, and how long would it take you to cross the river? Homework EquationsThe Attempt at a Solution...
  38. T

    How Do You Calculate Free Energy for Gas Atoms Adsorbed on a Metal Surface?

    The problem goes as follows... " One model for the adsorption of gas atoms on a metal surface approximates the surface to be a corregated muffin-tin potential. A gas atom can lower its energy by sitting in one of the potential minima which are the adhesion sites on the surface each with a...
  39. Aleoa

    Stuck on an Integer Programming problem

    Homework Statement I've tried hours and hours to model this problem but i didn't succeed. Can you help me ? We want to realize n projects in the next T years. For each project, a profitability index pi is known, which expresses the expected final gain (in Euro) and a cost profile ai =...
  40. devilish_wit

    I'm stuck This is a combination of dynamics and free fall

    Homework Statement A flat cushion of mass m is released from rest at the corner of the roof of a building, at height h. A wind blowing along the side of the building exerts a constant horizontal force of magnitude F on the cushion as it drops as shown in the figure below. The air exerts no...
  41. M

    Studying Strategies to Overcome Stuckness in Math Physics Course

    I'm currently in my second year of physics undergrad. My problem right now is that in one course named Mathematical Physics, I keep getting stuck. When I get stuck I re-read the entire chapter several times carefully and try to solve the problems but I'm unable. I resort to looking at the...
  42. K

    Can Splinters and Fillings Join the Bloodstream?

    If you have fillings (such as from iron dusts or carbon fiber) stuck in your skin? would it eventually join with your blood flow? What is the filter system of the blood where it couldn't accept the smallest particle and how big is the particle? Imagine iron dust filling or 1 carbon fiber...
  43. Physicsterian

    Extending an aircraft landing gear that has gotten stuck

    Imagine an aircraft of which the its wing is connected to its landing gear by means of a hinge (joint), and then the gear suddenly gets stuck midway. If, subsequently, the aircraft makes a turn around its longitudinal axis (see picture), it seems to hold true that then the angle between the...
  44. H

    Got a bowl stuck upside down in a pressure cooker

    I got a small bowl stuck in a pressure cooker. can someone help... I have attached a picture idk if its clear or not but anywayhttps://www.physicsforums.com/attachments/229166
  45. L

    Related rates problem - kinda stuck on this one

    Homework Statement Suppose you take a car trip, traveling east along a very long highway, starting at time t 0. Let x t be the number of gallons of gasoline used during the first t hours, and let st be the distance traveled in that time. Because you’re using very cheap gasoline that’s not good...
  46. lc99

    How Do Spring Length Calculations Relate to Frequency and Harmonics?

    Homework Statement Homework Equations v = sqrt(F/(m/L)) The Attempt at a Solution Trying to find the length of the spring. But i can find the tension of the wire at all. I'm not sure what i can do with the frequencies? Maybe I'm forgetting a concept cause i thought the equation v^2/F = L...
  47. C

    MHB Stuck solving a complex equation for T

    Hi I wonder if anyone can help. I am not even sure I am on the right forum. I cannot solve this equation for t. It is the final sequence of a number of equations in a book about modelling athletic performance using bioenergetics. I had a high school maths education 40 years ago and I’m stumped...
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