OH Physics! XD Does'nt this song get u into the mugging mood?
song dedicated to Snell! XD

Snell’s Law Song
Words by Marian McKenzie & Walter Smith 12-8-02
Tune: Sweet Betsy from Pike (traditional)

Come listen and learn, I’ve a story I tell,

I sing of the genius of Willebrord Snell

A mathematician who lived long ago

In the Netherlands where the Rhine river does flow.



He set for his mind occupations of worth,

Improved navigation and measured the Earth!

He gave us the sine law, that wonderful guy,

And he made more precise calculation of pi!




Singin’ n1 sine theta-sub-1, hey, hey, hey,

Equals n2 sine theta-sub-2, hip hooray!



His greatest feat came in Sixteen Twenty-one,

When optics as science was really begun!

While flashes of lightning illumined his page,

He wrote down Snell’s law, his great gift to the age!




So if you wear glasses or like to fry ants,
Be grateful your lenses were not made by chance!

Astronomers hail him with each new-found star!

Microscopists toast him from each sleazy bar!



Singin’ n1 sine theta-sub-1, hey, hey, hey,

Equals n2 sine theta-sub-2, hip hooray!



Now some credit Harriot, others Descartes,

Both studied refraction, and both were real smart.

But we prefer Willebrord van Roijen Snell --

He laid down the law, and he did it darn well!




Singin’ n1 sine theta-sub-1, hey, hey, hey,

Equals n2 sine theta-sub-2, hip hooray!




 2002 Marian B. McKenzie and Walter Fox Smith

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