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History of Physics Rap

2008-12-05T10:31:09Z

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:

Put’n the “sic” back in physics

Aristotle was one of the first great physicists
Defining an object’s 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 Aristotle’s object tendency was really friction.
On to the modern way of scientific thought
Came another progeny of the human imagination—
Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation.
Boyle formulated gas laws within the 17th century’s duration.
Huygens challenged the theory of light in his day
When in 1690 he said it’s 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 represent’n for the physicists all across the ages
Flip’n through my physics book’s pages
Take’n time to measure light’s 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 atom’s 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 isn’t
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 Einstein’s 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 Planck’s quantum theory
Proved Rutherford’s 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 we’ve 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 don’t?
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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