Composed, jointly, by the editor and admin.  No taunts, please.

waves sparkle with sun
rays swim below the surface
optical illusion?


If we can do it, you can do it.  Quit lurking and start writing!  :)

Dodge this.

projectile particle
soars through the summer sky


where's the trebuchet?

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value -- Albert Einstein

Physics oh Physics
Homework, Research without sleep
'til my Ph.D

Baffling entropy
Opaque as the winter fog

What does it all mean?

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value -- Albert Einstein

It's amazing, the things you can find to do in the middle of the night to avoid studying for exams...

Quarks, bosons, mesons
Length contracts, time dilates--Argh!
Damn quantum physics




Pax omni.

Certainty Denied
Dare not fix the same gaze twice
Heisenberg rocks on!

Einstein Rosen dox
Binequality thinks knots
very strange indeed.

Quantum due in two hours
I haven't even finished the second problem
Will he accept late homework

Oops, didn't follow the correct form in the last posted one,try again..


quantum homework due
my pencil is broke again
need better excuse

Energy conserved
Pound and Eliot collide
Hah! Metro deformed.

Force weight pulling down
Force natural going up
Let me follow him



dux femina facti

Boltzmann kills himself
Ehrenfest does the same thing
Stat mech is harmful

pricey physics text
cannot afford to buy it
too big to xerox

Nine haiku for you:
SPS is number one!
Next, will tanka do?

Newton saw the fall
Of apple from tree to earth
And Einstein caught it

Ride on a photon
Move fast as light--in no time.
Einstein was right bright

Behold energy
When E = mc2
It makes the stars shine

SPS haiku:
Beyond the Standard Model
New answers will do

A quantum-leap falls
Into a square well so small
'Tis not there at all

Feynman pictured all
As a sum of histories
Now it's QED

How small it can go
We shan't know, until we have
The Stringy Thingy

Now is the time for
All young physicists to come
And join SPS!


Submitted by George Schuhmann, SPS Secretary, University of Louisville

universe expands
and when the beast's lungs are full
universe contracts

if i'd seen it fall
i'd have eaten the apple
and never asked why

if air were water
i would swim faster than light
creating optic booms

a painful hand cramp
from taking notes all day long
most I'll never read

physics feeds the math
but the math feeds the physics
keeps me in circles

my cart won't roll well
my voltmeter is broken
B minus for me

She spoke C++
But I only speak FORTRAN
wasn't meant to be

The poor faculty
park in the least expensive
parking spots they can

Particles are small
Galaxies are very large
hard to see them both

Einstein, bad in school
liked to goof off and skip class
true..he's my hero

del dot E is rho
del dot B equals zero
Ahhh!..no source for confusion

S-S-C did die....
Now,CERN costs us even more!
how embarrassing

just realized that the word creating has
three syllables

if air were water
i would swim faster than light
making optic booms

pump laser of green
enters cavity of gain
Ti:saf radiates red

A quark in a bar
A man asked, "What's wrong?"  He said,
"They all call me strange."

For projectile motion:

Acceleration
Negative G in the Y
Zero in the X

Here are a few I came up with. Some I like, others I don't. This is my first time at this site, so hey! everyone.
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in a star's collapse,
elemental explosion-
firing synapse.



to confine my thoughts,
the space of this period.
There are waves 'lapping.




Unpredictable,
how emotion breaths beliefs-
and pendulums repeat.




Lemonade friendships-
barbeques of atoms and light.
'till everything cooled.




with our momenta,
despite our excitation-
our life's still discrete.




you're never alone
in an omnicentric winter-
this transient life.





failing physics labs
by defying gravity.
Note: source of error?





physics and fun are
separable solutions-
to one problem set.




in the amalgm
of elementary particles,
symmetry is grand.

the trees without leaves
the earth so far from the sun
more then 1 AU

Fourier Transforms,
Legendre Polynomials,
and lots of beer, yeah!

Passion in science,
And mathematical joy,
Bloom love of physics.

Ode to Electron:
Fermion, a quantum joy.
Alone, fill the state!

Our physics club pet:
A sheep puppet. Being nerds,
They named him Lamb-da.

Cool, a pack of gum
U is half k x-squared
Ouch, that hurt a lot

Seen by some, not all
The z-plus begins the hunt
for the pentaquarks

F equals m a
An action then reaction
Objects stay at rest

A string has
a multidimensional
Brownian motion

Enrico Fermi
On snowy field, Reaction!
nineteen fourty-two

Talking to a girl
Face cringes when major told
Goodbye girl, goodbye!

Break away from school
Summertime clubbing, feels good
Stat mech gets jealous

I play with magnets,
not enough time to explain;
undergrad research

My school, U.S.F.
It means, "You Stay Forever"
Thank you dear physics

Wake up, take shower
A sunny day awaits you
No, you have homework

spinning by myself
maginificently ordered
waiting to decay

"An Infinite Set of Differential Equations"
F equals M a
Implies Predestination,
Classical Failure.

"When I Try To Explain My Classes to My Friends"
The engineers ask,
How there can be a higher
Dimensional space.

"Complaint"
Lots of quantum dots,
And carbon nanostructures,
Phys I was less hard.

Oh no not again
On a frictionless surface
I cannot get up

Fact: like charges repel
Deuterons are positive
Very high voltage and speed

why study physics
when you could spend forever
simply counting beans?

O' striking photon!
An interference pattern --
one dot at a time.

With no assumptions,
and only few predictions-
Our love finds a way.

Coherent sources,
Lke incoherent thoughts, make:
For exciting times!

Long day of physics.
Ahh, so nice to be in bed.
Awake already?

Worthless problem sets
Leave no time for fun research
Kind of useful though.

It all is so clear
When you explain it with a
Guinness bottlecap.

Physics is the same
Here as on some other star
Universal laws

So happy to be
Done with set three days early.
But two more to go.

It looms over us
Graduate Record Exam
You should go study

Lots of unknown stuff
This dark energy maybe
just epicycles

Many, many times
Will I tunnel through this wall?
Ow.  Probably not.

Understanding makes
More beautiful red sunsets
And a bright blue sky

wasting time writing
these haikus for all of you
I'm going to sleep

IMAGINE...

a shperical cow,
sure that makes a lot of sense
but how would it taste?


MY PRECIOUS

you are here or there
and everywhere all at once
precious electron

OUR FRIENDS (though not our only ones, right ?!?)

eigenfunctions are
very special friends indeed;
let us remember

Study Physics hard
all week. So this weekend, I
can see "You Got Served".

Physics makes me sad.
But not like the break up of
Ben and Jennifer. :(

I'd rather write a
Physics related Tanka.
Two more lines of verse.

Conjunction-junction
Can't integrate a function?
Use Taylor Series!

move without effort
equipotential surfaces
normal to the flux

a science of sound

a science of sound
mechanical vibrations
make beautiful noise

potential explored
through simplified symmetry
with Gaussian shells

one explanation
intertwining dimensions
of vibrating strings

Einstein's dillemma:
quantum mechanics fails if
"god does not throw dice."

no longer simple
electron spin adds to L
gives us fine structure

nuclear spin too
lends to even more splitting
we call hyperfine

Dirac's Deltas are
impulsive; integrate, they're
on the Heaviside

Adjunct Professor of Physics, Editor of The Physics Teacher, and GWU SPS Chapter Advisor

Step function's namesake,
Heaviside, sounds like it looks.
Providence or joke?

If Alexander
Graham had seen like fortune, we'd
admire his Bell curve.

Adjunct Professor of Physics, Editor of The Physics Teacher, and GWU SPS Chapter Advisor

Gentle flowing stream
Particle outreach surrounds
Caress life anew

Darkness is filled now
Matter confounds Newtons grasp
Lost within the void

Electrons falling
Core penetration model,
relativistic.

Sun shining Brightly
Such warmth from photons flying;
Picture bent in glass

Alpha Particles
Coming so quickly toward me
Tells me how ancient.

The star called Deneb
Type A2Ia, burping
out mass into space.

What is empty space?
Brewing of particles and
Anti-particles

or


The brew bubbles high.
Particles pairing with their
antiparticles

What is empty space?
Brewing of particles and
Anti-particles

or

The brew bubbles high.
Particles pairing with their
antiparticles

Like a jumbo sun
Glancing through a mirrored wall
Opposites attract

It's late--I study...
I feel like antimatter
Coffee is life-blood.

In physics meeting
females are everywhere--
Pleasant reverie...

oh to be sleeping!
Well, it is really short naps
between physics work.

It's "To know God's thoughts"
That Einstein wanted to know.
Is it relative?

Big Bang! Creation
Top, Bottom, Charm, Strange, Up, Down
Repeatedly born

Please note that the deadline for contest entries has been extended to February 15, 2004.  Good luck!

Dodge this.

AC or DC?
Edison could not compete
The great Tesla had won

Physics is fruity -
Plum pudding model; what's next?
Strawberry field theory?

Mick Jagger says best,
"Shadoobie, scattered, scattered.."
Physicist at heart?

Someone tell Wiley:
Impossible to catch a
Road Runner photon

The Uncertainty
principle must govern Man's
knowledge of Women

The tension is killing--
Who won the competition?
A Result pending?

Thanks to all who participated in the Haiku contest.  There were many good entries.  As you can all imagine, judging will be difficult.  The judging process is underway, though, and winners will be announced as soon as judging is complete.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value -- Albert Einstein

Just wanted to make sure folks can find this easily to let us know their favorites...

Admin

Dodge this.

Thanks to all of you who submitted haiku; your efforts have attracted quite a bit of attention from the leaders of several physics organizations, and I expect to see some of them in various print venues soon.

Adjunct Professor of Physics, Editor of The Physics Teacher, and GWU SPS Chapter Advisor

Sleeping electron
curled on the ground --
are you there?