Physics Songs
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. --Red Auerbach
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Physics Songs Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. --Red Auerbach |
One of my passions is music.
This page contains four fun Christmas songs and links to some of my
favorite physics songs
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Frosty the Photon is a
sample of one of the many Physics Christmas songs floating around in the
virtual world. This song was created by physics students at the
University of Delaware.
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Frosty The Photon(sung to the tune of "Frosty the Snowman")
Frosty the photon
Had a very merry soul
Though he spent his life
Running back and forth
To the ends of a dipole.
Frosty the photon
With momentum h-bar-k
Though he had the right
To be known as light
He was called a gamma ray.
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Physics students from The University of Delaware wrote a handful of
other Christmas songs.
See their Christmas song index at
http://www.crhc.uiuc.edu/~mconte/xmas/songs.html.
Among the songs the students have
composed are the following:
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Science Songs web
site at
http://www.mnsta.org/links/songs.htm are
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and O Chemistree . This site
contains numerous songs and links to more fun physics songs for all
occasions..
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| RUDOLPH, THE RED-NOSED LASER | O CHEMISTREE |
(tune: “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer”) Rudolph, the red-nosed Laser Was a sight for you to see It only could make red light And of just one frequency Excited helium atoms With neon atoms did collide When they decayed to ground states Then the red light was supplied All the waves went up and down As if in lock step When two laser beams drew near Interference did appear The light was collimated And would never ever stray That’s why on foggy Christmas Rudolph guided Santa’s sleigh. John L. Roeder  |
O Chemistree, O chemistry I have so much to learn from thee. O Chemistree, O chemistry How intricate your branches. The elements we all must learn; The compounds that we Bunsen burn. O Chemistree, O chemistry My grades are a catastrophe O Chemistree, O chemistry Mass and weight and density. O Chemistree, O chemistry Specific heat capacity Sodium perchlorate And calcium diphosphate O Chemistree, O chemistry I’ll try to pass you with a “C.” — words by Paige Davis — tune: “O Christmas Tree” |
The following are a partial listing of songs featured on the Science Songs web site at http://www.mnsta.org/links/songs.htm .
Acceleration — tune: “John Jacob
Jingleheimer Schmidt”
Glory, Glory, Albert Einstein — tune: “Battle Hymn of the Republic”
Gravity — tune: “Jingle Bells”
Moles to Grams --tune: “Deck the
Halls”
Photocells -- tune: “Angels We Have Heard on High”
Silent Labs tune: “Silent Night”
Subleveling Song — tune: “White Christmas”
The Ideal Physics Song-- tune: “The Christmas Song”
The Lab Assistants’ Song -- tune: “Blow the Man Down”
TheThermodynamics Final -- tune: “Battle Hymn of the Republic”
Twinkle Twinkle Little Light — tune: “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”
The
Center for
Reliable and High Performance Computer web page
http://www.crhc.uiuc.edu/~mconte/xmas.html also
makes note of Christmas songs with a scholastic twist. Below
is a sample of one song included on their page which was
acquired via a forwarded email:
Subject: The Night Before Finals
Twas the night before finals,
And all through the college,
The students were praying
For last minute knowledge.
Most were quite sleepy
But none touched their beds,
While visions of essays
Danced in their heads.
Out in the taverns,
A few were still drinking,
And hoping that liquor
Would loosen their thinking.
In my own dorm room,
I had been pacing,
And dreading exams
I soon would be facing.
My roommate was speechless,
His nose in his books,
And my comments to him
Drew unfriendly looks.
I drained all the coffee,
And brewed a new pot,
No longer caring
That my nerves were all shot.
I stared at my notes
But my thoughts were all muddy
My eyes went a blur,
I just couldn't study.
"Some pizza might help,"
I thought with a shiver,
But each place that I called
Refused to deliver.
I'd nearly concluded
That life was too cruel,
With futures depending
On grades had in school.
When all of a sudden,
Our door opened wide,
And Patron Saint Put It Off
Ambled inside.
His spirit was careless,
His manner was mellow,
He loked straight at me,
And started to bellow:
"What kind of student
Would make such a fuss
To toss back at teachers
What they tossed at us?"
"On Cliff Notes! On Crib Notes!
On Last Year's Exams!
On Wingit and Slingit,
And Last Minute Crams!"
His message delivered,
He vanished from sight,
But we heard him laughing
Outside in the night.
"Your teachers have pegged you,
So just do your best.
>Happy Finals to All,
And to all a good test."
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Bonus Science Song Link:
AstroCapella http://www.astrocappella.com/ View science songs and purchase CDs here
This page was created for my physics students
- to provide you with a small sample of fun science songs that can
be found on the web
- and to provide you with links so that you, too,
can begin discovering and enjoying additional songs.
I urge you to read their songs and compose your own.
I'd be happy to publish your songs on this web page.
