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Home   |   Publications   |   APS News   |   Special Features   |   Physics Limericks   |   A.P. French

A.P. French

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Said Sir Isaac: "I've got a great notion
That force is a changer of motion.
Let's put it this way:
F equals ma
The rest is just sweat and devotion."

Miss Farad was pretty and sensual
and charged to a reckless potential;
But a rascal named Ohm
Conducted her home
Her decline was, alas, exponential.

Said that famous old physicist Volta
"My dry cells put out quite a jolt-a.
When I throw this switch,
All your muscles will twitch
If you were a chicken, you'd molt-a."


Oh captain, now where can we be,

after traveling so close to c?
"We've reached the far spot,
that you thought we could not:
length-contraction in action, you see."


Went out for a walk on the grass
A slumbering lepton
Who nearly got stepped on
Protested "Remember your mass!"


Said a quantum mechanic named Steve
"I find it quite hard to believe
That all of that gang
Who pursue the Big Bang
Have anything new up their sleeve."


A semiconductor named Si

Got some arsenic stuck in his eye.
It made him a donor
And (though not a moaner)
He couldn't help wondering why.


There was a young fellow named Cole
Who ventured too near a black hole.
His dv by dt
Was quite wondrous to see
But now all that's left is his soul.
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