The textbook I have most fond memories of was called "Physics is FUN!" and had those terrible sixties line drawings in... Some wag of a previous student had written "Is it BOLLOCKS!" on the title page...
Going on a slight tangent here, a certain book one year was bestowed the award for "The dullest title for a work of non-fiction." Said volume was entitled "The History of the Concrete Roofing Tile." :p
Fundamental rule of Physics #1 - you usually only ever get a fundamental unit of measurement or constant named after you in you've got a very silly name. Eg., Plank's constant, the Faraday, the Barn, Boyle's law...
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Date: 2006-01-06 04:15 pm (UTC)I wish I'd been a scientific genius and had a unit of measurement named after me. I'm not sure what I'd want, though.
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Date: 2006-01-06 04:21 pm (UTC)It would have to be something plural so that science teachers would have to tell boys to do something to their Allcocks...
* always used to grin when the Economics teacher said "Right, everybody get your Nobbs out" *
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Date: 2006-01-06 04:25 pm (UTC)Best textbook name? "Living Things" by V Slaughter :)
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Date: 2006-01-06 04:27 pm (UTC)The textbook I have most fond memories of was called "Physics is FUN!" and had those terrible sixties line drawings in... Some wag of a previous student had written "Is it BOLLOCKS!" on the title page...
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Date: 2006-01-06 10:31 pm (UTC)LMAO! That's a classic!
Going on a slight tangent here, a certain book one year was bestowed the award for "The dullest title for a work of non-fiction." Said volume was entitled "The History of the Concrete Roofing Tile." :p
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Date: 2006-01-06 10:29 pm (UTC)Fundamental rule of Physics #1 - you usually only ever get a fundamental unit of measurement or constant named after you in you've got a very silly name. Eg., Plank's constant, the Faraday, the Barn, Boyle's law...