"The Elements" song by Tom Lehrer
The Element Song
'I am the very model of a modern Major-General' from Gilbert & Sullivan's 'Pirates of Penzance'.
Begin: you can hear the accompaniment
There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium
And gold, protactinium and indium and gallium
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.
There’s yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium
And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium and barium.
There’s holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium
And phosphorous and francium and fluorine and terbium
And manganese and mercury, molybdinum, magnesium,
Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium
And lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium,
Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium,
Tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium,
And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.
There’s sulfur, californium and fermium, berkelium
And also mendelevium, einsteinium and nobelium
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc and rhodium
And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper,
Tungsten, tin and sodium.
These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard,
And there may be many others but they haven’t been discovered.
Mnemonics is a rhyming device.
Learn Why Songs help you memorize the information. Since print was invented we've forgotten our roots of why we sang songs to help us to remember. We sang history in verse after verse to remember our stories, before we invented reading and writing.
LEARN MORE SONGS ABOUT SCIENCE
Francisco Eduomo sings his "Ode to the Periodic Table"
GET THE PERIODIC TABLE
Animated Periodic Table of the Elements (YOU HAVE TO CLICK TO MAKE IT MOVE)lots to click around on this animated version of the periodic table of the elements. Browse through the alkali metals, the alkaline earth metals, and both the lanthanide and actinide series. As users move their mouse across the table they can learn each elements boiling point, its oxidation states, its atomic weight, density, each elements bonding structure.
'Oxford ecologist Philip Stewart has designed a new periodic table of the elements. Stewart's is the only remake to achieve widespread adoption since Dmitri Mendeleev invented the original periodic table in a fit of brilliance in 1869.' " 2005 +
Ebbinghaus 1.3
A number of programs have been released in recent months that are designed to help computer users learn by creating flash cards and then review them at your leisure. Export these boxes of cards to devices such as an iPod and use them as they see fit. compatible with computers running Mac OS X 10.4 +
Download and print the Periodic Table
Every English classroom should have a periodic table. Similarities and Differences between the arts and sciences is closely related to these concepts.
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TEACHING SCIENCE WITH HUMOR
So a neutron walks into a bar . . . A New chemical Element Discovered by William DeBuvitz This bit of humor was written in April 1988 and appeared in the January 1989 issue of The Physics Teacher. William DeBuvitz is a physics professor at Middlesex County College in Edison, New Jersey (USA). He retired in June of 2000. The heaviest element known to science was recently discovered by investigators at a major U.S. research university. The element, tentatively named administratium, has no protons or electrons and thus has an atomic number of 0. However, it does have one neutron, 125 assistant neutrons, 75 vice neutrons and 111 assistant vice neutrons, which gives it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by a force that involves the continuous exchange of meson-like particles called morons.
GEERHART'S PERIODIC TABLE OF ATOMIC MUSIC
K - 12 THRU GRAD SCHOOL - TEACHING SCIENCE WITH HUMOR
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An oldy but goody from 1999
Subject: Superpolylogarithmic Subexponential Functions
Abstract
A superpolylogarithmic subexponential function is any function that asymptotically grows faster than any polynomial of any logarithm but slower than any exponential. We present a recently discovered nineteenth-century manuscript about these functions, which in part because of their application in cryptology, have received considerable attention in contemporary computer science research.
Attributed to the little-known yet highly-suspect composer/mathematician Maria Poopings, the manuscript can be sung to the tune of "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from the musical Mary Poppins.
In addition, we prove three ridiculous facts about superpolylogarithmic subexponential functions. Using novel extensions to the popular DTIME notation from complexity theory, we also define the complexity class SuperPolyLog/SubExp, which consists of all languages that can be accepted within deterministic superpolylogarithmic subexponential time.
We show that this class is notationally intractable in the sense that it cannot be conveniently described using existing terminology. Surprisingly, there is some scientific value in our notational novelties; moreover, students may find this paper helpful in learning about growth rates, asymptotic notations, cryptology, and reversible computation.
Keywords. Algorithms, asymptotic notation, complexity theory, cryptography, cryptology, DTIME, mathematical humor, Maria Poopings, Mary Poppins, musical computer science, reversible computation, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, superpolylogarithmic subexponential functions, SuperPolyLog/SubExp.
The Lyrics
- Superpolylogarithmic Subexponential Functions
- (Sung to the tune of "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.")
- Um diddle diddle diddle, um diddle ay!
- Um diddle diddle diddle, um diddle ay!
- Superpolylogarithmic subexponential functions!
- Faster than a polylog but slower than exponential.
- Even though they're hard to say, they're truly quintessential.
- Superpolylogarithmic subexponential functions!
- Um diddle diddle diddle, um diddle ay!
- Um diddle diddle diddle, um diddle ay!
- For Alice to send a message through to Bob when Eve's eavesdropping,
- do use a trapdoor one-way function---not a one-key mapping.
- First take a message x, let's say, and raise it to the e;
- then mod it out by p times q but keep these secretly. Oh!
- (Chorus)
- Um diddle diddle diddle, um diddle ay!
- Um diddle diddle diddle, um diddle ay!
- The process takes but poly-time and appears to be secure:
- why even just a single bit is one over polylog pure.
- Though Alice thinks that Eve must spend time at least exponential,
- by using Lenstra's elliptic curves, Eve splits n subexponentially. Oh!
- (Chorus)
- Um diddle diddle diddle, um diddle ay!
- Um diddle diddle diddle, um diddle ay!
- Most computations dissipate a lot of energy;
- we remove the heat with water but there's a better strategy.
- Since thermodynamics does not apply when info is not doomed,
- the laws of physics don't require that power be consumed. Oh!
- (Chorus)
- Um diddle diddle diddle, um diddle ay!
- Um diddle diddle diddle, um diddle ay!
- Now Bennett said in `73, to run a program P,
- you simulate the program P, but do so reversibly.
- The problem with this method is that space is exponential,
- so trade off time to save on space---this really is essential! Oh!
- (Chorus)
- Um diddle diddle diddle, um diddle ay!
- Um diddle diddle diddle, um diddle ay!
- Did you know if you invert one, you get a
- funtionential subexporithmic logapolyrepus?
- But that's quite a singularity! So,
- If you are in an oral exam and cannot find the way,
- just summon up these words and then you've got a lot to say.
- But better use them carefully or you could fail the test.
- A professor once asked me,
- "What do you call functions that grow faster than any
- polylogarithm but slower than exponential?" There're,
- Superpolylogarithmic subexponential functions!
- Superpolylogarithmic subexponential functions!
- Superpolylogarithmic subexponential functions!
- Superpolylogarithmic subexponential functions!
IN THE BEGINNING
1871 Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleyev developed the periodic classification system of the elements, presenting a periodic table listing the elements in 1871.
Born in Siberia, the last of 17 children, Mendeleyev eventually found success in academia. While writing a basic textbook on chemistry in the 1860s, he attempted to find a way to classify the elements. His periodic system gained acceptance over time. His periodic table left gaps for elements as yet undiscovered, but he correctly predicted the properties of three of those elements. The table and his concepts of periodic law gained more acceptance with the approach of the 20th century, forming the basis for modern chemistry. (HNQ, 1/4/01)(WSJ, 8/21/01, p.A17) More about this story.
Songs composed by Alexander Borodin a chemist by day and a musician by night who also happened to be good buddies with Mendeleev, which happens to check out why students of music are so much smarter!
Did it take a nuclear physics lab to murder Alexander Litvinenko?
An analysis that suggests that perhaps it isn't that hard to extract enough polonium to commit murder. The analysis is worth reading, if only for the biophysics.
IN THE END
FOR INSPIRATION: ~ by Dr. Van Philpot
(My friend wrote this only a few weeks before he passed away ~ k.e.)
Johannes Brahms is the biologist of music. His symphony #1 portrays the full dimensions of the life cycle with its majesty and minute perfection. Like the intertwining of molecules from air and soil into living cells-moving, breathing, reproducing, the symphony rolls gently and powerfully to intertwine itself with the melody, harmony and rythm of the biological world. The pounding of tympani in the first movement takes one to the grandeur of nature seen from the top of a mountain. The soft strains of the second movement takes one to a moss covered glen in a wooded area where each molecule of chlorophyl is acted upon by a photon of light to catalyze the inorganic to the organic. The famous melody of the fourth movement portrays a scene by the brookside with its algae, one celled organisms, fish, snakes fuse to become a single gently flowing organism.
When science and music are blended by the immaterial component of the human mind, one has a vision of God.
Tracing memes instead of genes! The Mathematics Genealogy Project traces over 116,000 mathematicians along with their "descendants" -- the students they have mentored, and their students and so on.
MUSIC MAKES YOU SMARTER RESEARCH
General Chemistry Online
General Chemistry Online site, created by Professor Fred Senese of Frostburg State University's chemistry department contains companion notes and guides that will help students as they navigate the world of first semester chemistry, as well as a toolbox of interactive graphing devices and a glossary of over 1000 chemical terms, complete with audio pronunciations. For those who cannot find answers to their queries here, the site has the "Ask Antoine" section, where they can ask about anything chemistry.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration has a great resource called "After School Astronomy" run by Lou Mayo that has more science songs to sing.
Space Travel - Mission Control Words and music by Carmino Ravosa
What Texas Says you need to know about science pdf to pass the 11th grade exit exam.
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