Phun Physics...

[Pumpkinstew]

They cut the footage right before he poured raspberry sauce all over is and made a slush puppy.

[Pumpkinstew]

But in A-level chemistry you do stuff like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6Ci4Lg47wQ

(and about 300 titrations)

[SidewinderINC]

titrations..... *groan*

[lostkat]

I hated Chemistry A-Level with a passion. All I can remember are learning about 900 different bloody benzene reactions and being told that the electron configurations (in the rings around the nucleus) you learn at GCSE are all LIIIIES!!!! Thought I'd escaped titrations when I finished my A-Levels. Had I thump. Had to do them at Uni too, booooo!!!

[Pickers]

Originally Posted by goldilocks

i love physics (ionising radiation is where it's at )

but, isn't this more chemistry?
bond making, bond breaking, latent heat of fusion / evaporation, and all that?

Well latent heats/heat capacities are dealing with energy which is, by definition, an application of physics. That being said, material physics to some extent is part chemistry.

(Physics crosses into chemistry, and chemistry crosses into biology. There is no physics in biology hence constant jibbing between the disciplines )

[Pheebs]

Originally Posted by Goose

You'll have to do more than that to get a ticket!

Like kill small innocent flies? ......


Does it matter if it's chemistry or pheesix?! They're both still NEEEEEEEERDy

Hehehe I love this vid - I really wanna try it! I too think they made slush puppies out of them!

Could you imagine the sales you'd get on slush puppies if you sold it like that on the street! Everyone would want one and want a go at making their own!

[goldilocks]

i love my job! physics / anatomy and physiology - the perfect mix of sciences - just enough to keep me interested and learning, and not too much that i have to wear a lab coat and play with test tubes!!

omg - a level sciences were just wrong
i took maths (yes it is :P), physics, chemistry and human biology
i couldn't ditch physics quickly enough - only did AS
...and then realised i'd have to learn it all anyway for the degree
i'd love to take the a level exams again now - when it's actually and interest and not something i just *had* to learn

pickers, if you're a teacher - i think i'd have enjoyed the sciences a lot more if we'd have done experiment like that

[Pumpkinstew]

Originally Posted by Pickers

Physics crosses into chemistry, and chemistry crosses into biology. There is no physics in biology hence constant jibbing between the disciplines )

LIES! Lies I tell you!

Physics creeps into areas like limb mechanics and the physical strength of biological structures.

For example: WHAT is the air speed velocity of the east african swallow?

Having said that I have a friend who got his biology doctorate in insect flight and he's managed to publish papers without a single equation in them
There's physics in biology but they do their best to ignore it.

[Pickers]

The only physics I see in biology is pressure applied to the pencil nib in order to create different shades of red for colouring in the heart and lungs...


Nah - biology is fun - I like teaching it (sometimes). I've learned so much about the human body recently that I'd either never known, or had forgotten since I last did it.

Oh - I did a heart dissection the other day and the kids wanted to film me "cos the other group's teacher had let them". "No way" says I, 'cos I've had no formal training and really don't want my inexperienced dissection (read: 'slice and tear until I stumble upon something interesting') plastered on you-tube. Of course I didnt say this to them - I said that it wasnt appropriate or respectful to the donor (pig).

[Fayshun]

Originally Posted by Pumpkinstew

For example: WHAT is the air speed velocity of the east african swallow?

Unladen? Or with coconuts?