Wednesday, December 29, 2010
What if Hollywood taught science classes?
A student of mine from last semester just emailed me this link. It was a photo contest sponsored by cracked.com designed to poke fun at "Hollywood science". Some great stuff there.
http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_82_if-hollywood-taught-science-class_p19
My personal favorite was the student's essay response about why a bus traveling horizontally at 50 mph can bridge a 20 yard gap in the highway: "From the moment the leading edge of the bus was over the gap, physics entered into slow motion rules, making it awesome."
The Starfleet Physics Technical Manual slide was pretty good, too, with topics such as "What Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?", "Overcoming relativity", and "Using the words 'phase' and 'shift' to solve any problem".
http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_82_if-hollywood-taught-science-class_p19
My personal favorite was the student's essay response about why a bus traveling horizontally at 50 mph can bridge a 20 yard gap in the highway: "From the moment the leading edge of the bus was over the gap, physics entered into slow motion rules, making it awesome."
The Starfleet Physics Technical Manual slide was pretty good, too, with topics such as "What Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?", "Overcoming relativity", and "Using the words 'phase' and 'shift' to solve any problem".
# posted by John Colton @ 8:43 AM 
