Teaching Physics

Maybe I’ll turn this into a weekly thing, or a once every two posts thing. Rather than trying to fill up every slot with entries that are stupid and wanna-be-funny, I’ll try to write something more down to Earth and sensitive. Also, rather than calling these entries “mine”, I’ll claim that it is “something nice I found on the internet and would like to share”, because that’s what everyone does, right? Anyways here comes the challenging part. Writing something sensitive. I'm not known to be a sensitive person, so this may be an utter failure, but I need some variation in this blog.

So this one is called Teaching Physics.

Students were together in a study group, and the one leading the discussion was at a road block as no one really understood the material. Then that student got an idea.

How about we teach physics like this:

Let’s start with kinematics.

Kinematics is the study of motion and motion alone. In other words, it’s how you and the person you love do things together. Such as seeing a movie, or stargazing. It’s also the pace of your relationship, or the “velocity”. It’s related to how far you’ve gone, “distance”, how much time you’ve been together “time”, and how fast you’d like to go “acceleration”.

Dynamics is the study of the causes of motion. In other words, it’s how you and the person you love started things, such as initially asking the other one on a date, or to go somewhere. It’s the icebreaker for your relationship. There are three main laws that govern this: “Newton’s laws of motion”. They state that
1. Unless you do something, your relationship, or lack thereof, won’t change, which can either be good or bad.
2. What you do, “force”, is related to the significance (like how romantic or how stupid) aka “the mass” and the “acceleration”, mentioned earlier.
3. For everything you do, your lover will do something in return. Meaning if you think she’s pretty, you should say it, and she should say something or do something in return.

Next is work. Work is related to your “force” and “distance”. So it’s the effort you’ve put in to get to where you are. If you haven’t gotten anywhere, or you haven’t done anything, your work is 0.

Then momentum is related to “mass” and “velocity”. It’s the product of what you’ve done and your pace. The greater this is, the easier it will be getting through difficult times, unless you find difficulties that are equal to your momentum.

Equilibrium is when you are both doing things for each other. This is a stable situation, so no worries.

This seemed to be working very well, and everyone was having fun. The night continued as a great study session until one of the students decided to ask a curious question:

“Why did you suddenly start teaching physics through the idea of love and relationships?”

The student that was teaching blushed a little, and then chuckled. After a short silence, the student said, “I think you need to review density.”

Note: This originally was a longer narrative story, however, it ended up being very messy and didn’t really make sense so it’s been shortened to what it is now. Still, I think both forms, this and the original, are terrible; I thought it would’ve turned out a little bit better, but this really hit rock bottom in my opinion. I’ll have to work on my sensitive side. I think I tried to force a theme too much in this one, as well as trying to convey something I felt through a method I don’t know about. Next time I’ll just try writing whatever comes to mind.

Salvage this Post!: What do you do when you still like a girl after you know she either 1. Doesn't like you 2. Likes someone else or 3. Just sees you as a friend.

You're always thinking of her, but to no avail. Sometimes you wish you could forget about her. Sometimes you hate yourself for being selfish, because she'll be happier liking who she wants to. The best and worst times are when you're hopeful. Then there are those times when you just don't know what to do...

And you tell yourself:

Just move on, idiot.

But you just can't.