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Kids Physics

Answers to questions provided by kids

* Q: What is one horsepower? A: One horsepower is the amount of energy it takes to drag a horse 500 feet in one second.

* You can listen to thunder after lightening and tell how close you came to getting hit. If you don't hear it you got hit, so never mind.

* When they broke open molecules, they found they were only stuffed with atoms. But when they broke open atoms, they found them stuffed with explosions.

* When people run around and around in circles we say they are crazy. When planets do it we say they are orbiting.

* Most books now say our sun is a star. But it still knows how to change back into a sun in the daytime.

* A vibration is a motion that cannot make up its mind which way it wants to go.

* Many dead animals of the past changed to fossils, others preferred to be oil.

* Vacuums are nothings. We only mention them to let them know we know they're there.

* We say the cause of perfume disappearing is evaporation. Evaporation gets blamed for a lot of things people forget to put the top on.

* I am not sure how clouds get formed. But the clouds know how to do it, and that is the important thing.

* Rain is saved up in cloud banks.

* Cyanide is so poisonous that one drop of it on a dog's tongue will kill the strongest man.

* It is so hot in some parts of the world that the people there have to live other places.


Scientific Experiment

How can you drop an egg four feet without breaking it?

(Drop it from five feet. It won't break during the first four feet.)


A Day In The Life Of A BMW Driver

The other day I was cruising along as usual coming onto one of my interstates, which was very busy with inferior cars.

First off, I couldn’t believe that the volume of traffic DIDN’T slow down for me AT ALL as I came off the exit ramp! I had to squeeze into a barely big enough gap between two cars in order to get onto my motorway!

The driver of the car behind me did realise his mistake though and honked an apology to me with a long blast of his horn.

Unbelievably, I had to do the same again before I could get to the BMW lane.

Anyway, once I was in the BMW lane and posing along at 110 mph enjoying the adulation that the inferior car drivers were giving me, I noticed an inferior car ahead of me which was not only in the BMW lane of my motorway, but was driving at a ridiculous 70 mph!

Naturally, I got within a foot or so of his rear bumper and flashed my headlights to remind him he shouldn’t be in the BMW lane of my motorway and to get out of my way.

Of course, once he realised it was a BMW behind him, he did just that, but I could hardly believe it when he pulled straight back out behind me!

He also tried to keep up with me and when he realised I would out-run him, he put on some blue lights in his front grill and urged me to get onto the hard shoulder so that he could congratulate me on my excellent car.

Needless to say, I was eager to oblige and when we had stopped, the man gave me a piece of paper confirming what I already knew - that my car goes fast!

Apparently he wants everyone to know what a superior car I have, so I had to take my drivers licence to a police station to be sent away to have some points put on! (They’re not free points either - they’re $20 each and I was only allowed 3.) But the man at the police station said that because I drive a BMW, it won’t be much longer before I earn the full 12 points, and then I won’t even NEED a driving licence, so they will take it off me!

See, now THAT’S the sort of respect you get when you own and drive a BMW!