PhysIX

Here is a link to the best song, ever - James Taylor's "JellyMan Kelly"   Does it have to do with physics? Jenny Mohenny loves to boil hot water (which takes heat energy).  Yeah, it is a stretch.  Still a great song.

3/3/10: Today during finals, Ms. Walsh suggested that students who completed the science test early should "draw a picture or write a haiku or something."  Of course, Ms. Randall had to rise to the challenge.

Here are her silly haiku:

Oh, wondrous physics

All day I watch you working

Newton, I love you.

Law of Inertia

An object that sits so still

Remaining at rest.

Newton's Second Law

Forces acceleration

If we know the mass

Third Law of Newton

Your force pairs make me happy.

Overreaction?

Here is a link to Thinkgeek's Techy Haiku contest.  

Jokes:

Question:
What do physicists enjoy doing the most at baseball games?

Answer:
The 'wave'

Question:
What did the thermometer say to the graduated cylinder?

Answer:
You may have graduated, but I've got many degrees.

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Issac Newton: Chickens at rest tend to stay at rest, chickens in motion tend to cross roads

Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends on your frame of reference

A neutron walks into a bar; he asks the bartender, 'How much for a beer?' The bartender looks at him, and says 'For you, no charge.' 

Two atoms bump into each other. One says 'I think I lost an electron!' The other asks, 'Are you sure?', to which the first replies, 'I'm positive.' 

There is this farmer who is having problems with his chickens. All of the sudden, they are all getting very sick and he doesn't know what is wrong with them. After trying all conventional means, he calls a biologist, a chemist, and a physicist to see if they can figure out what is wrong. So the biologist looks at the chickens, examines them a bit, and says he has no clue what could be wrong with them. Then the chemist takes some tests and makes some measurements, but he can't come to any conclusions either. So the physicist tries. He stands there and looks at the chickens for a long time without touching them or anything. Then all of the sudden he starts scribbling away in a notebook. Finally, after several gruesome calculations, he exclaims, 'I've got it! But it only works for spherical chickens in a vacuum.'

I want to point out that the answer to the question below was NOT from any WNA students.  They are much better artists.

Quotes:

Bertrand Russell • No opinion should be held with fervour. No one holds with fervour that seven times eight is fifty-six, because it can be known that this is the case. Fervour is only necessary in commending an opinion which is doubtful or demonstrably false.

Ernest Rutherford • All science is either physics or stamp collecting

Bugs Bunny • I know this defies the law of gravity, but you see, I never studied law.

Lord Kelvin, President, Royal Society, 1895 • Heavier than air flying machines are impossible.

Carl Sagan • If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Neuro • I can travel through time and I do - at the remarkable rate of one second per second.

This link shows one of my very favorite bands, OKGo.  The video features a Rube Goldberg machine, which is all about physics.  

Dave Barry, "What is Electricity?"

Here is a simple experiment that will teach you an important electrical lesson: On a cool, dry day, scuff your feet along a carpet, then reach your hand into a friend's mouth and touch one of his dental fillings.  Did you notice how your friend twitched violently and cried out in pain?  This teaches us that electricity can be a very powerful force, but we must never use it to hurt others unless we need to learn an important electrical lesson.

It also teaches us how an electrical circuit works.  When you scuffed your feet, you picked up batches of "electrons," which are very small objects that carpet manufacturers weave into carpets so they will attract dirt.  The electrons travel through your blood stream and collect in your finger, where they form a spark that leaps to your friend's filling, then travels down to his feet and back into the carpet, thus completing the circuit.

Amazing Electronic Fact: If you scuffed your feet long enough without touching anything, you would build up so many electrons that your finger would explode!  But this is nothing to worry about unless you have carpeting.

One Liners:

Gravity is a downer.

Plasma is another matter.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

Friction can be a drag.

Power corrupts, but we need electricity.

Gravity: It is not just a good idea, it is the law!

How many weeks are there in a light year?

A day without fusion is like a day without sunshine.

An object at rest cannot be stopped.

Watt is the unit of power?

Resistance begins at ohm.

Anything that doesn't matter, has no mass.

Absolute zero is cool.