I Hate Physics! — DawgCTF SP26

Description

There's a secret message in these Physics study notes. Can you find it? The flag will be in the format DawgCTF{squarer00tofpi}.

File: STUDYME.txt

The provided STUDYME.txt is a 71-line plain-text file that looks like someone's thermodynamics study notes: kinetic energy, work, heat capacities at constant pressure/volume, ideal gas law, Boltzmann's entropy formula, a fully-worked ice + water mixing problem, and so on. The flag format example squarer00tofpi (i.e. "square root of pi" in leet speak) strongly hints that the hidden content is a short English phrase written with leet substitutions.

Analysis

1. First impression — many things are "wrong"

Reading the first 15 lines carefully:

D=1/2mv^2 (force * displacement) = 1/2 * mass * velocity^2 + alpha
w=fd (force * displacement) with respect to displacement lag
Cp=20.79 J/K/Mol for a constant pressure ONLY FOR OUTPUT
FINAL TEMPERATURE ALWAYS COMES FIRST BECAUSE THE TEMPERATURE DELTA IS INSIDE {
temperature min, temperature max}, like with
e=u+pVr
m=0
dU=mcdT and remember that sometimes mcdT can be a dy
nA is number of moles of gas A/B^4
mA*cA*∆T=cB*cB*∆T when two things are equalizing i.e and indirect carnot cycli
c, such as with the following equation: 2500kg*cA*(500-400)=cB*cB*∆T*5
s=ksubb * ln * omega * tau
cv=12.47J/K/Mol for a constant vol, Klevin is k
s=integral from vi to vf of (1/T *dU) for a general delta!
}]\d\wa\dT

Almost every line contains something that does not belong in a physics textbook:

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