Science in Secondary Schools

[BrowneIssue]

Imagine a tall building. Drop a cat (or a guinea-pig) from the fifth floor...

What happens if you drop a puppy instead, and the puppy is waving its tail on the way down? While exhibiting wave-like behaviour, it has a short half-life. Does that make it radioactive?

[Pogle]

ok.
Imagine a tall building. Drop a cat (or a guinea-pig) from the fifth floor. It hits the pavement then it 'bounces', this is called the 'dead cat bounce' and is one of the basic principles of economics and economic journalism. Now imagine that the cats patron saint was St Jude, this proves the cat is RC and therefore has mass.
If the cat has mass it cannot have a frquency, and thereore it is a singularity, if it it single it has no offspring, which brings us onto relativity.

are you still there ?

Yep

[EternalOptimist]

If you drop a cat or a guinea pig from the fifth floor it probably won’t die as it’s terminal velocity is much lower than that of a human and insufficient to kill it as long as it lands on its legs. It may well have sore legs for a while though, and I’m not suggesting people throw cats or guinea pigs out of windows. Save that treatment for uppity project managers and agents.

Obviously you have to remove the legs first. before you drop it

[BrowneIssue]

I think we worked out the charge on an electron from the deflection caused by an electromagnet.

I recall some other stuff.

We fired off a number of different particles, some gas atoms and various frequencies of EMR and defracted them too. We calculated how the mass of the object influences the amount of defraction and got all stressed over how wavelength and mass might be related. Our rather gifted physics teacher said something to the effect of "And now you know as much a the best theoretical physicists; when you go to study for your PhD, you'll be trying to solve that problem". Really inspirational stuff.

Anyway, by extrapolating up one can calculate how much the pocket on a snooker table can deflect a snooker ball by defraction by being a one slice grating. We worked it out as some tiny fraction of the diameter of a proton. So, sometimes, once in a squillion years, a snooker ball aimed perfectly does NOT go in the pocket because the pocket has defracted the ball away from itself.

[Mich the Tester]

Obviously you have to remove the legs first. before you drop it

So it bleeds to death before you drop it?

[Pogle]

What happens if you drop a puppy instead, and the puppy is waving its tail on the way down? While exhibiting wave-like behaviour, it has a short half-life. Does that make it radioactive?

No, but if you block the positive side of his diode on the way down he will only produces half waves and sink like a stone

[Menelaus]

If you drop a cat or a guinea pig from the fifth floor it probably won’t die as it’s terminal velocity is much lower than that of a human and insufficient to kill it as long as it lands on its legs. It may well have sore legs for a while though, and I’m not suggesting people throw cats or guinea pigs out of windows. Save that treatment for uppity project managers and agents.

I'd have thought that the rapid deceleration would cause the necks of femur and humerus to be pushed through the pelvis and clavicle respectively?

[EternalOptimist]

What happens if you drop a puppy instead, and the puppy is waving its tail on the way down? While exhibiting wave-like behaviour, it has a short half-life. Does that make it radioactive?

no.
Clearly this is wagging, not waving. This is also links cats (or guinea pigs) to economic journalism as in 'wags to whiskers' stories

[EternalOptimist]

I'd have thought that the rapid deceleration would cause the necks of femur and humerus to be pushed through the pelvis and clavicle respectively?

Exactly so. This is why the last thing to go through the cats mind is its @rse hole

[Pogle]

Exactly so. This is why the last thing to go through the cats mind is its @rse hole

How is Brewsters bum?