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Science is Awesome!!!, Class #13, Period 3, April 5th
The blonde badly-dressed Al Bhed was not quite so bouncy as her usual, but she was doing her best nonetheless.
"Hiya," she said. "I hope you're all sufficiently recovered from the weekend, 'cause we're getting right back into it today. Today, we're going to have fun with Physics!"
She held that a beat as if waiting for an excited response of some kind.
"Anyway," she said. "Physics is the study of matter and motion. There's matter, and then there's energy. There are all kinds of energy, like potential energy -- that's when something is sitting high up, and it could fall, but it's not going to yet? But if it did, it'd have a lot of energy going all over the place. Kinetic energy is energy of motion. That'd be if you nudged it over and it fell. The potential energy becomes kinetic energy."
"At the heart of it, physics wants to understand the world around us. Which I guess you could say about all science, but in different ways, you know? Biology was life, and astronomy was all those other planets and stars. Physics is objects and motion and gravity, while chemistry is the chemical compounds that make it all up. That's why science is awesome, by the way. Because every day, we're learning more about the world around us, and the world around us is fascinating."
Rikku was now holding up a leaf blower and a yardstick. "So today we're going to do some basic, fun physics experiments so we can look at some interesting results. And next week -- there's not going to be a final, don't worry. But I might ask you to talk a little about science, and what you think you've learned. Okay?"
"Hiya," she said. "I hope you're all sufficiently recovered from the weekend, 'cause we're getting right back into it today. Today, we're going to have fun with Physics!"
She held that a beat as if waiting for an excited response of some kind.
"Anyway," she said. "Physics is the study of matter and motion. There's matter, and then there's energy. There are all kinds of energy, like potential energy -- that's when something is sitting high up, and it could fall, but it's not going to yet? But if it did, it'd have a lot of energy going all over the place. Kinetic energy is energy of motion. That'd be if you nudged it over and it fell. The potential energy becomes kinetic energy."
"At the heart of it, physics wants to understand the world around us. Which I guess you could say about all science, but in different ways, you know? Biology was life, and astronomy was all those other planets and stars. Physics is objects and motion and gravity, while chemistry is the chemical compounds that make it all up. That's why science is awesome, by the way. Because every day, we're learning more about the world around us, and the world around us is fascinating."
Rikku was now holding up a leaf blower and a yardstick. "So today we're going to do some basic, fun physics experiments so we can look at some interesting results. And next week -- there's not going to be a final, don't worry. But I might ask you to talk a little about science, and what you think you've learned. Okay?"
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Then he threw up.
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