Physics Fun

Mission Log:

Since I will being seeing the end of my senior year of high school in a few short weeks, I decided to compile a list of phrases and vivid imagery that my physics professor, Dr. Herrick, provided the class with last semester. It was one of my favorite classes I've taken and yes, I suppose I'm feeling a bit nostalgic for it.

Without further adieu, I present:

Physics Fun with Dr. Herrick:

1) "Suppose the cow is a circle..."

2) "For homework, you could come up with a nickname for Newton's 2nd Law of Motion"

3) "I'm like friction"

4) "Turn off the sun for extra credit!"

5) "What's wrong? Nothing, I just have to worry about supporting the weight of a mile long wrench"

6) "It's good to be blessed"

7) "The time for science is now"

8) "The earth is a lot more massive than you"

9) "Everything in the universe is ensnared in a web of gravitational attraction"

10) "If the moon was fired out of a cannon and put into orbit..."

11) "If you were to reach into space with a giant hand and stop the moon..."

12) (on the topic of atomic structure) "It's a jiggling tinker toy assembly"

13) "Water: it flows!"

14) "If you were swimming in gasoline, which I don't recommend"

15) "Whatever your favorite liquid might be"

16) "Whatever your favorite low density material is"

17) "Fish talk to me"

18) "Seemingly seamlessly!"

19) "Physics isn't just parlor tricks!"

20) "See what kind of orbits you can achieve!"

21) "This is 0 Kelvin, or the more sexy term: absolute zero

22) "If we haven't 'sumed' yet, how can we 'resume'?"

23) "Evaporation: 1 molecule at a time!"

24) (on the topic of the internal combustion engine) "Maybe this is what hell broke free from"

25) "Entropy, or 'all hell breaking loose'"

26) "Them bats is smart, they use radar"

27) "Perhaps you can win a Nobel Peace Prize by finding out a way to remove the ocean"

28) "*gasp* 'What's wrong?' 'the equation! It changed!'"

29) (on the topic of chemists) "They guard their little priesthood of knowledge"

30) (on the topic of door handles) "The title of my cynical autobiography: 'Nobody Has Knobs Anymore'"

31) "It's ultraviolet, not ultraviolent"

32) (on the topic of the previous teacher to use the classroom leaving words written on the whiteboard) "It's like leaving intellectual trash lying around"

33) "Mmm lens on a stick. Yummy!"

34) "Have some physics before you die of thirst"

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