I have had both of these conversations in the past couple weeks.
Landon: Why it so hard to start bike moving?
Me: Well, the coefficient of static friction is higher than the coefficient of rolling friction.
Landon: Oh.
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Landon: Why when you turn that corner, I fall over.
Me: Well, some people would tell you it's centrifugal force, but they'd be wrong, because it's technically inertia.
Landon: Inertia?
Me: Well, it's a law of phyics that things in motion tend to stay in motion and things at rest tend to stay at rest unless acted on by an outside force.
Landon: But I not outside.
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Hat tip to Mr. Richardson who taught me both of the above concepts in high school. And he probably thought I wasn't paying attention.
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He also knows what a skyscraper is and a water tower! Stop it right now missy :)
What a smarty pants ;)I understood about every other word, lol!
Yeah, I found myself explaining special relativity and time dilation to my seven-year old last night. Sometimes it's easier to just say "because that's the way it is."
are you kidding me? I had to read that first one twice and well, I still don't get it. Ha!
My eyes totally glaze over whenever TMF starts explaining stuff like that. Probably because I never had Richardson for Physics (I had him for Algebra II, which was not unlike Physics in that I DID. NOT. GET. IT.)
This explains some of the conversations that Landon and I have had lately. Except he does the explaining!
MoM
Yea! Go Smart Kids! Natalie corrects people who call streets "cement."
THAT'S CONCRETE!
~Katy
I commend thee! Keep up the good work and maybe he will once again allow you to use butter. ;)
"It's not butter, it is an emulsion of lipids."
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