History of Physics Rap
I made this in high school for a physics project on the history of physics. The video and sound quality is poor because it was filmed in 2002 and recorded onto VHS, which I then later converted to digital to upload. I made the video one afternoon with a couple of classmates, one holding a stereo playing the instrumental to Still DRE by Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, and another filming. We filmed at various locations in San Francisco. We submitted this as our final honors physics project, and received an A! The lyrics: Putn the sic back in physics Aristotle was one of the first great physicists Defining an objects motion and its limits The primary theory of motion that he professed Is that the natural state of an object is at rest. That notion held from 350 BC to approximately 1603, When Galileo reasoned creatively He discovered after much scientific devotion That a moving object tends to stay in motion Likewise, how one stopped will stay in that position And that Aristotles object tendency was really friction. On to the modern way of scientific thought Came another progeny of the human imagination— Newtons Law of Universal Gravitation. Boyle formulated gas laws within the 17th centurys duration. Huygens challenged the theory of light in his day When in 1690 he said its composed of waves. Bernoulli, the first mathematical physicist Anticipated the kinetic theory of gases a century before Dalton invented it. The first two laws of thermodynamics Were developed in 1850 by Kelvin and Clausius. -CHORUS- I be representn for the physicists all across the ages Flipn through my physics books pages Taken time to measure lights speed coz I still got love for the P H-Y-S-I-C-S Farady invented the concept of the field To explain how magnets yield electric generation Maxwell continued in 1856, discovering electromagnetic radiation. J. J. Thomson with his physics ability Refuted the notion of an atoms indivisibility In experimenting with a cathode ray, he supposed That atoms, from electrons, are composed. Thus, shattering the notion of matter What it is and what it isnt And on came the birth of modern physics. With the discovery of radiation and x-rays The classical view failed to explain How a positive nucleus surrounded by electrons, stays. Then the conflict presented by Michelson and Morley The ether concept explained poorly, But in came Einsteins brilliant mind And with Minkowski, altered our notion of space-time With ideas that are difficult for most to grasp Like the speed of light is the limiting speed of all things with mass. -CHORUS- Then Bohr, using Plancks quantum theory Proved Rutherfords nuclear atom clearly. -So on we move to the age of quantum physics- Lawrence invented the cyclotron—to accelerate particles And re-produced radioactive things by means artificial. Meitner discovered nuclear disintegration She named it fission and gave its physical explanation. Fermi, Oppenheimer, and Seborg Made the hydrogen bomb all that and even more. The antiproton was discovered in 1955 And then came quarks, of which weve found six types. Transistors were also invented by physicists Same with the laser—whose implications are limitless. -CHORUS- Today, one may ask, Where is physics to go? I answer, Any place you take it. Is there a fourth fundamental force, gravitiation? Nowdays with gluons and tau-nutrinos Ask yourself—who will experiment if we dont? We are the chosen ones—we hold the mic. This is now your song—this is your verse to write. -CHORUS-
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