This column attributed to:
Catholic Memorial

1. O Gravity
2. Gravity Jingle Bells
3. Oh - Sin Theta-One Times Index One
4. Photons of Light
5. Deck the Physics Lab
6. O Little Physics Reference Sheet
7. Joy To The World

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This column attributed to
1, 3, 10 The Physics Teacher
12 Dennis McNulty Warren Central High School Indianapolis IN.
13, 14, 15 credit to Northern Arizona University Faculty
The rest are credited to "Unknown"

1. We Three Quarks
2. God Rest Ye Merry Physics Profs
3. Deck the Halls V2.1 & V2.2
4. If You Throw a Ball on High
5. Oh, High T-C
6. Awake in the Library
7. Frosty the Photon
8. Oh Feigenbaum
9. Cold Fusion
10. Photocells
11. Oh Physicist
12. The Twelve Days of Newton 
13. We Three Deans
14. James Clerk Maxwell
15. We Wish We were Passing Physics
16. Another 12 Days of:

O Gravity

(Melody: O Christmas Tree)

O Gravity, O Gravity,
All Newton's theories crowning,
Where e'er we be, land, air, or sea,
We're subject to your "downing"
F equals G, m-one, m-two,
All over R squared, yes, it's true.
O Gravity, O Gravity,
We cannot flee, you guarantee!

l. We Three Quarks

    (to the tune of ‘We Three Kings’)

We three quarks fine particles are
Bearing charm we travel afar
Fields and forces, spin of course is
Multiplied by h-bar.
Oh, quarks are wondrous, quarks are light
Quarks have colors, clear and bright.
Still misleading, still exceeding
All the physicists' insight.
We three quarks trade gluons all day
All baryons are made in this way.
Confined inside, we always hide
Unseen forever stay.
Oh, quarks are wondrous, quarks are light
Quarks stay snugly out of sight.
Still misleading, still exceeding
All the physicists' insight.

Gravity Jingle Bells

(Melody: Jingle Bells)

When something hits the earth,
You'll notice in a trice,
It makes a great big bang,
Now isn't that so nice?
So what makes things fall down?
What makes them go ker-plop?
The answer's in this song, my friend,
We'll sing it 'till we drop.
Oh!
Gravity, Gravity,
Keeps us on the ground.
It was explained by Newton,
(The scientist renowned)!
Gravity, Gravity,
Mass times nine-point-eight.
Is a vector pointing down,
That's sometimes known as "weight."

Walk around the earth.
Keep a steady pace.
If gravity weren't there,
You'd float away in space.
Now some call it a push--
Well, call it any name,
But gravity will always PULL--
Attraction is its game!
Oh!
Gravity, Gravity,
Keeps us on the ground.
It was explained by Newton,
(The scientist renowned)!
Gravity, Gravity,
Mass times nine-point-eight.
Is a vector pointing down,
That's sometimes known as "weight."

2. God Rest Ye merry Physics Profs

    (to the tune of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen")

God rest ye merry Physics profs
Let nothing you dismay.
Don't moan or cry if you must all
Grade finals Christmas Day
To save you from the registrar
If grades aren't on the way.
Chorus:  Oh, oh, tidings of A's, B's, and C's

Mostly C's

Chorus:

Chorus:

Oh - Sin Theta-One Times Index One

(Melody: God Rest Ye merry, Gentlemen)

Light travels in straight lines,
that is unless somehow it's turned.
It can reflect (or bounce right back),
But that's quite eas'ly learned.
Refraction is the property
with which we're now concerned:

Chorus:
Oh - Sin theta-one times index one
is equal to
Sin theta-two times index two!

Refraction is the bending
which is caused by changing speed.
When entering at an angle,
light will bend, and then proceed--
to travel in a new straight line,
wherever that may lead.

Oh - Sin theta-one times index one
is equal to
Sin theta-two times index two!

Now since the bending's caused by changing speed, we have a clue
To calculate light's speed in any medium, (it's true!)
n-one v-one is equal to n-two times v-two.

Oh - Sin theta-one times index one
is equal to
Sin theta-two times index two!

When slowing down the light bends 'toward the normal' as they say.
When speeding-up it will bend from the normal away --
Until the angle critical is reached to our dismay!

Oh - Sin theta-one times index one
is equal to
Sin theta-two times index two!

3. Deck the Halls v2.1

V2.2. Deck the Halls

V2.3 Deck the Physics Lab

Deck the physics lab with lenses, (fa,la,la...)
Light bends more when they are densest, (fa,la,la...)
We can now observe reflection, (fa,la,la...)
Not to mention its direction, (fa,la,la...)
Stroboscopes are swiftly turning, (fa,la,la...)
While our eager minds are learning, (fa,la,la...)
Light diffraction we can now see, (fa,la,la...)
See how fun our physics can be, (ha,ha,ha...)

Photons of Light

(Melody: Silent Night)

Photons of light,
Sparkling bright,
Energy
in the night.
Energy like a stash in the bank.
Frequency times the constant of Planck.
Energy we can use...
use it as we choose!

4. If You Throw a Ball on High

    (to the tune of "Angels We Have Heard on High")

If you throw a ball on high
Central forces bring it nigh
If it starts out upward bound
Further east it will be found

Cor.....iolis
In acceleration
Cor.......iolis
In acceleration

Use Lorentz's transform law
Yes, I see dee tee dee tau
Relativity is fun
Four vec-tors are quickly done

Lor.......entz
In acceleration
Lor....entz
In acceleration

It you send your twin away
She will have a slower day.
If you watch each other's clocks
Then you have a paradox,

Ein......stein
In time dilation
Ein......stein
In time dilation

Superconductivity
There's no resistivity
But it stops at three degrees
So we work in the deep freeze.

He........lium
In refrigeration
He.......lium
In refrigeration,

Deck the Physics Lab

(Melody: Deck the Halls)

Deck the Physics lab with vectors
(Fa la la la la la la la la la)
And with laser light reflectors
(Fa la la la la la la la la la)
Let us have a celebration
(Fa la la la la la la la la)
Full of song and jubilation
(Fa la la la la la la la la )

Deck the lab and be of good cheer.
(Fa la la la la la la la la la)
No more Physics classes this year!
(Fa la la la la la la la la)
But one question can be foreseen...
(Fa la la la la la la la la)
Who the heck knows what these words mean:
"Fa la la la la la la la la"?

5. Oh, High T-C

    (to the tune of "Oh Tannenbaum")

O Little Physics Reference Sheet

(Melody: O Little Town of Bethlehem)

O Little Physics Reference Sheet,
so much information's here.
With our Mechanics, Waves, and Heat,
You've helped us a lot this year.
The speeds of light and sound
and refractive indicies,
They all are here,
We shall not fear,
While holding facts like these.

And lots of useful formulae,
are tabulated here.
They help refresh

our memories,
when recall is less-than-clear.
For Distance-Time relations,
and laws of E and M,
will sometimes blur,
so we refer
To you to look for them.

Specific Heats, and Boiling points,
and trigonometric sines,
Though highly prized, aren't memorized.
They're looked-up within your lines.
Examinations final are not too far away.
We know that you will help us through
The physics Judgment-day.

6. Awake in the Library

( to the tune of "Away in a Manger" )

Joy to the World

(Melody: Joy To The World)

Joy to the World, the last dumb song
Is over -- now we're through!
Our singing we will not prolong--
(That's what you hoped for all along).
Christmas greetings we renew
Merry Christmas now to you,
Christmas greetings we now renew,
Merry Christmas, and adieu!

7. Frosty the Photon

    ( to the tune of 'Frosty the Snowman' )

8. Oh Feigenbaum

    (to the tune of "Oh Tannenbaum")

9. Cold Fusion

    (to the tune of "Hark the Herald Angels Sing")

10. Photocells

    (to the tune of "Jingle Bells")

Dashing through space-time
At the speed of light
Through vector fields we go
With our colors bright.
Keeping constant speed
In every frame is right.
Oh what fun it is to be a photon in the night.

Chorus: Decibels, photocells,
Now I'm going to lase.
Oh what fun it is to be a boson in the rays. Hey!
Grad of dels, colored gels,
Diffraction grating blaze.
Oh what fun it is to be a boson in the rays.

Cut across the lab
By a mirror steered
Through the slits we go
Nothing do we fear.
Back again we come
To the screen we've veered,
Oh what fun it is to be a photon interfered.

Chorus...

11. Oh Physicist

    (sung to the tune of "Oh Christmas Tree")

When we were young and freshman all
We thought that physics was a ball
But that is true if only you
Can make approximations,
In early days we thought the fuss
Was just about the calculus.

Chorus: Oh Physicist, Oh Physicist
I wish that I could be one.

In sophomore year when we met del
We still thought all was going well
But all the wells that we could see
Were bounded at infinity.
When we found out that quarks were strange
It did not make our majors change.

Chorus.

By junior year we knew we ought
To wave good-bye to normal thought.
Our minds began to get disturbed
When shown how orbits are perturbed.
We never guessed that the Master key
Meant late night labs we could not flee.

Chorus..

It's senior year, the time draws near
That brings the end of classes.
We find that we amazed must be
To think our profs will pass us.
When it comes time to graduate,
We hope we'll be in solid state.

Chorus...

To graduate school we now are bound
And 10 years hence will still be found
A decade's work is all for naught
Because a square root I forgot
We realize our Ph.D. is waiting at infinity.

Chorus...

12. The Twelve Days of Newton

On the first day of Newton , Sir Isaac gave to me
    The acceleration due to Gravity
On the second day of Newton , Sir Isaac gave to me
    Two torques a balanced
On the third day of Newton , Sir Isaac gave to me
    Three laws of motion
On the fourth day of Newton , Sir Isaac gave to me
    Four apples falling
On the fifth day of Newton , Sir Isaac gave to me
    Five Newton’s rings
On the sixth day of Newton , Sir Isaac gave to me
    Six point six seven
On the seventh day of Newton , Sir Isaac gave to me
    Seven spectrum colors
On the eighth day of Newton , Sir Isaac gave to me
    Eight mints of money
On the ninth day of Newton , Sir Isaac gave to me
    Nine point eight
On the tenth day of Newton , Sir Isaac gave to me
    Ten z-components
On the eleventh day of Newton , Sir Isaac gave to me
    Eleven speeds of sound
On the twelfth day of Newton , Sir Isaac gave to me
    Twelve particles of light

13. We Three Deans

          (Tune: We Three Kings)

14. James Clerk Maxwell

          (Tune: Good King Wenceslas)

James Clerk Maxwell did look out
On the fields of Faraday.
Where the charge lay round about
Scattered this and that‑a‑way.
Twisted boundaries in and out
Raised to strange potentials.
If solutions could be found,
It would be providential.

Then came four equations out
With assorted Theorems,
Complex singularities,
Maxwell didn't fear 'em.
Tamed the demons, wrote a book,
Set right former errors.
Gave to theorists pure delight,
And to students terrors!

15. We Wish We Were Passing Physics

          (Tune: We Wish You a Merry Christmas)

We wish we were passing Physics,
We wish we were passing Physics,
We wish we were passing Physics,
Well, there's always next year.

Mechanics is not Good tidings to us,
Mechanics and Newton can wait one more year.

We wish we were passing Physics...

16. Another 12 Days of: