Improvised Munitions

Mark Thorson said:

How dare they sell the raw materials to teenagers!

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2805/622/1600/sierra_mist_mentos_2.jpg
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http://www.kahsoon.com/2005/11/23/mentos-soda-explosion/

Your parents college money at work.

-sw

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Mark Thorson said:

How dare they sell the raw materials to teenagers!

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2805/622/1600/sierra_mist_mentos_2.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=136670974&size=l
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2805/622/1600/P1011465.jpg
http://www.kahsoon.com/2005/11/23/mentos-soda-explosion/

Grocery list:
Bread
Milk
Mentos
Eggs
Coffee
Diet Soda
Tomatoes

Dang! The Kid left yesterday. Next time!
--
-Barb
<http://jamlady.eboard.com> Updated 4-30-2006, Dead Spread
latest church review, and Sam's Festival of Nations costume.
"If it's not worth doing to excess, it's not worth doing at all."

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Steve Wertz said:

Mark Thorson said:

How dare they sell the raw materials to teenagers!

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2805/622/1600/sierra_mist_mentos_2.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=136670974&size=l
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2805/622/1600/P1011465.jpg
http://www.kahsoon.com/2005/11/23/mentos-soda-explosion/

Your parents college money at work.

-sw

Cut it out! You gotta make Chemistry interesting if you want to lure
kids to the sciences. Chris' Physics teacher led outings to the local
amusement park to do physics experiments involving various rides at the
park.

http://www.ecsu.k12.mn.us/envision/gradrule/lesson_1.html

The guy was great! I think the park now hosts a boatload of school
kids from all over the state doing experiments with the rides.
--
-Barb
<http://jamlady.eboard.com> Updated 4-30-2006, Dead Spread
latest church review, and Sam's Festival of Nations costume.
"If it's not worth doing to excess, it's not worth doing at all."

Melba's Jammin' <[email hidden]> writes:
Chris' Physics teacher led outings to the local

Quoted message said:

amusement park to do physics experiments involving various rides at the
park.

http://www.ecsu.k12.mn.us/envision/gradrule/lesson_1.html

The guy was great! I think the park now hosts a boatload of school
kids from all over the state doing experiments with the rides.

In grad school, I was in a program helping Minneapolis teachers learn
more about science, and one of the programs I did was going with them
on a trip to ValleyFair and explaining to both teachers and students
the physics of some of the rides. It was quite a blast, and a welcome
diversion from my PhD studies.

Similarly, when I was in high school, Magic Mountain amusement park in
CA had an "Annual Physics Day" in which the park was open just to
high-school science students and their chaperones, and we'd spend the
day riding rides all over the place while carrying hand-held
accelerometers and pressure altimeters.

--
Richard W Kaszeta
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http://www.kaszeta.org/rich

On Mon 08 May 2006 08:20:11a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Melba's
Jammin'?

Quoted message said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Steve Wertz said:

Mark Thorson said:

How dare they sell the raw materials to teenagers!

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2805/622/1600/sierra_mist_mentos_2.
jpg http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=136670974&size=l
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2805/622/1600/P1011465.jpg
http://www.kahsoon.com/2005/11/23/mentos-soda-explosion/

Your parents college money at work.

-sw

Cut it out! You gotta make Chemistry interesting if you want to lure
kids to the sciences. Chris' Physics teacher led outings to the local
amusement park to do physics experiments involving various rides at the
park.

http://www.ecsu.k12.mn.us/envision/gradrule/lesson_1.html

The guy was great! I think the park now hosts a boatload of school
kids from all over the state doing experiments with the rides.

Let's hope they don't go armed with a wrench to take it apart and see how
it works. :-)

--
Wayne Boatwright Õ¿Õ¬
________________________________________

Okay, okay, I take it back! UnScrew you!

On 8 May 2006 17:33:06 +0200, Wayne Boatwright

wayneboatwright_at_gmail.com said:

On Mon 08 May 2006 08:20:11a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Melba's
Jammin'?

Quoted message said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Steve Wertz said:

On Thu, 04 May 2006 17:36:13 -0700, Mark Thorson wrote:

> How dare they sell the raw materials to teenagers!
>
> http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2805/622/1600/sierra_mist_mentos_2.
> jpg http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=136670974&size=l
> http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2805/622/1600/P1011465.jpg
> http://www.kahsoon.com/2005/11/23/mentos-soda-explosion/

Your parents college money at work.

-sw

Cut it out! You gotta make Chemistry interesting if you want to lure
kids to the sciences. Chris' Physics teacher led outings to the local
amusement park to do physics experiments involving various rides at the
park.

http://www.ecsu.k12.mn.us/envision/gradrule/lesson_1.html

The guy was great! I think the park now hosts a boatload of school
kids from all over the state doing experiments with the rides.

Let's hope they don't go armed with a wrench to take it apart and see how
it works. :-)

It's the engineers who do that. A friend of ours gave the IMB rep
heart failure when he started taking one of the computers apart. They
were being demonstrated at NASA.
--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974

Melba's Jammin said:

You gotta make Chemistry interesting if you want to lure
kids to the sciences. Chris' Physics teacher led outings to the local
amusement park to do physics experiments involving various rides at the
park.

http://www.ecsu.k12.mn.us/envision/gradrule/lesson_1.html

The guy was great! I think the park now hosts a boatload of school
kids from all over the state doing experiments with the rides.

Yep, our high schools did that, too. And two of our physics teachers
had their classes break into small groups for a year-end activity they
called "Rube Goldberg/The Red Green Show" where the kids had to build a
machine that incorporated many of the principles of physics that they
had studied and present and explain the concepts "with governing
equations" before groups of community engineers and scientists.
Some of the structures were incredibly large and complex and most of the
kids worked very hard at the project. The catch was that they taught
each other because each student had to be prepared to answer questions
about the group project and the individual grade depended on the group's
performance. Yikes!

gloria p

On Mon 08 May 2006 09:28:40a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it The Cook?

Quoted message said:

On 8 May 2006 17:33:06 +0200, Wayne Boatwright

wayneboatwright_at_gmail.com said:

On Mon 08 May 2006 08:20:11a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Melba's
Jammin'?

Quoted message said:

In article <[email hidden]>,
Steve Wertz <[email hidden]> wrote:

> On Thu, 04 May 2006 17:36:13 -0700, Mark Thorson wrote:
>
> > How dare they sell the raw materials to teenagers!
> >
> > http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2805/622/1600/sierra_mist_mentos_
> > 2. jpg http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=136670974&size=l
> > http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2805/622/1600/P1011465.jpg
> > http://www.kahsoon.com/2005/11/23/mentos-soda-explosion/
>
> Your parents college money at work.
>
> -sw

Cut it out! You gotta make Chemistry interesting if you want to lure
kids to the sciences. Chris' Physics teacher led outings to the local
amusement park to do physics experiments involving various rides at
the park.

http://www.ecsu.k12.mn.us/envision/gradrule/lesson_1.html

The guy was great! I think the park now hosts a boatload of school
kids from all over the state doing experiments with the rides.

Let's hope they don't go armed with a wrench to take it apart and see
how it works. :-)

It's the engineers who do that. A friend of ours gave the IMB rep
heart failure when he started taking one of the computers apart. They
were being demonstrated at NASA.

Oops!

--
Wayne Boatwright Õ¿Õ¬
________________________________________

Okay, okay, I take it back! UnScrew you!

Mark Thorson said:

How dare they sell the raw materials to teenagers!

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2805/622/1600/sierra_mist_mentos_2.jpg

That's nothing... shoulda seen me spurt when I was fifteen. hehe

Sheldon