"Oh Oscillators!" The Physics Hit Parade

A recent edition of The Wall Street Journal had a feature on Dr. Walter Smith, a physics teacher and founder of the site www.physicssongs.org.

Six years ago, Walter Smith, an associate professor of physics at Haverford College, whipped out a baritone ukulele and played a tune he wrote about 19th-century Danish physicist Hans Christian Oersted to a puzzled class of undergraduates. Since then, he has composed and performed 34 other songs about relativity, magnetism and wave oscillation. He also made a startling discovery: He isn't alone. It turns out that quite a few physicists like to dabble in ditties. …

And, the students like it as well as several have gone on to create their own physics songs (all of which are available at the website).

Now if you combine a physics ditty with a physics Gizmo, you're talking some seriously fun learning.

But can anyone compete with this guy when it comes to singing and having fun?