Physics Poetry

Today as part of an exam review, I had my students make up Haikus, Limericks, and Nursery Rhymes that had to do with Physics. Some are great, some are... welll... different! Here are some of my favorites:

The ball on the edge
Waits in anticipation
Full of potential

There was an old man from Maine,
Who fell from a flying airplane
His Kinetic Energy soared
While his Potential was floored
When he hit the ground he had no brain.

Potential is fun
Kinetic is very fun
I'm not good at this!

Lumpy Humpty sat on a wall
Lumpy Humpty had a great fall
Lumpy Humpty did not realize
That momentum and collisions
Would be his demise

More velocity
And my KE pwns yours, ha!
Yes for energy.

Twinkle twinkle little star
Started falling down so far
Used to be up there so high
Took a plane right out of the sky
Twinkle Twinkle, little star
Now there's a hole in the earth because of an inelastic collision.

I love kinetics
They involve lots of motion
Refrigerator

There once was a girl at the park
On a teeter totter above all the bark
She was making a Physics Rap video for class
But because of her potential energy she fell on her....
Face.

This morning the rain
made me slip and fall, oh no!
Friction, I hate you.

And one kid wrote a rap - you'll have to provide your own beats:

Collisions - kaboom!
Objects fly by like zoom zoom zoom.
When collisions are elastic,
It's quite fantastic.
They go bump-a-bump
And push away, not together like a clump.
Inelastic collisions are also cool
I'm not being sarcastic, or a fool.
They stick
And energy is released with a kick
Explosion!

Now let's talk about momentum.
It's a property of an object in motion
Like energy but a different proportion
P = mv,
Vector in the same direction as velocity.

Word.