"I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that's clever stuff."
--Tom Felton (a.k.a. Draco Malfoy from the Harry Potter movies)
WEEK THREE: Projectile Motion Bug: "Place projectile weapon on the ground." Edgar: "You can have my gun. When you pry it from my cold dead fingers." Bug: "Your proposal is acceptable."
--Men In Black (1997 movie)
WEEK FIVE: Force
"Physicists define stress as force per unit area. The rest of humanity define stress as physics."
--Unknown
WEEK SEVEN: Work, Energy, Power
Peter Parker: "Uncle Ben was wrong! Great power doesn't come with great responsibility--with great power comes great work over time!"
--J Rasay :)
WEEK NINE: Momentum, Impulse, Collisions
(Here's a limerick for you!)
The change in the two cars' momentum
Was that which a third car had lent 'em.
Total p was conserved,
Until, breaking, they swerved,
And total KE, 'til it bent them.
--David Morin, Eric Zaslow, Elizabeth Haley, John Golden, Nathan Salwen (Harvard)
WEEK ELEVEN: Uniform Circular Motion, Rotational Kinematics
--Unknown
WEEK SEVEN: Work, Energy, Power
Peter Parker: "Uncle Ben was wrong! Great power doesn't come with great responsibility--with great power comes great work over time!"
--J Rasay :)
WEEK NINE: Momentum, Impulse, Collisions
(Here's a limerick for you!)
The change in the two cars' momentum
Was that which a third car had lent 'em.
Total p was conserved,
Until, breaking, they swerved,
And total KE, 'til it bent them.
--David Morin, Eric Zaslow, Elizabeth Haley, John Golden, Nathan Salwen (Harvard)
WEEK ELEVEN: Uniform Circular Motion, Rotational Kinematics
"The centripetal force on our planet is still fearfully strong, Alyosha. I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic."
--Fyodor Dostoevsky (The Brother Karamazov)
WEEK THIRTEEN: Rotational Motion, Torque, Gravity, Orbits
"Static equilibrium is all torque and no action."
--Someone with the screenname Ken_g6 on discovermagazine.com
WEEK FIFTEEN: Fluids
"You mustn't be too rigid when doing fluid mechanics."
--Someone from Cambridge Universtiy, 1988
WEEK SIXTEEN: Temperature and Heat, Kinetic Theory of Gases, First and Seconf Law of Thermodynamics, Gases, Engines, Efficiency and Entropy
(Why are there so many physics cat jokes online?)
Law of Cat Thermodynamics
Heat flows from a warmer to a cooler body, except in the case of a cat, in which case all heat flows to the cat.
WEEK TWENTY-TWO: Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law, Electric Fields, Electric Potential
Q: Why wouldn't Charles Coulomb go out with two negatively charged particles at once?
A: Because he found them to be repulsive!
WEEK TWENTY-FOUR: Electric Current and Resistance, Capacitors, Direct Current Circuits
Q: Who was the first electricity detective?
A: Sherlock Ohms!
WEEK TWENTY-SIX: Magnetism
Darn. I forgot to copy it here before I changed the quote/joke. Sorry, it's gone.
WEEK TWENTY-EIGHT: Electromagnetic Spectrum, Light, Reflection, Refraction, Lenses
"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws."
--Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
WEEK THIRTEEN: Rotational Motion, Torque, Gravity, Orbits
"Static equilibrium is all torque and no action."
--Someone with the screenname Ken_g6 on discovermagazine.com
WEEK FIFTEEN: Fluids
"You mustn't be too rigid when doing fluid mechanics."
--Someone from Cambridge Universtiy, 1988
WEEK SIXTEEN: Temperature and Heat, Kinetic Theory of Gases, First and Seconf Law of Thermodynamics, Gases, Engines, Efficiency and Entropy
(Why are there so many physics cat jokes online?)
Law of Cat Thermodynamics
Heat flows from a warmer to a cooler body, except in the case of a cat, in which case all heat flows to the cat.
WEEK TWENTY-TWO: Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law, Electric Fields, Electric Potential
Q: Why wouldn't Charles Coulomb go out with two negatively charged particles at once?
A: Because he found them to be repulsive!
WEEK TWENTY-FOUR: Electric Current and Resistance, Capacitors, Direct Current Circuits
Q: Who was the first electricity detective?
A: Sherlock Ohms!
WEEK TWENTY-SIX: Magnetism
Darn. I forgot to copy it here before I changed the quote/joke. Sorry, it's gone.
WEEK TWENTY-EIGHT: Electromagnetic Spectrum, Light, Reflection, Refraction, Lenses
"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws."
--Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
