Poetry in physics class? In an attempt to promote interest in physics and the world around them, students of Mr. Louis Bergdolt's 2B and 3 period class and Mr. Rollin Porter's 1 and 2A class have taken up writing haiku.

Plays, models, slot cars, and forms of poetry are the projects used to show the relation of physics to the world around us. Everyone in class participated in writing the haiku which told something of their experiences in physics this year.

Mr. Porter feels that physics is a course which should be taken by any student interested in the environment he lives in. Mr. Porter also expressed that he would like to see more girls enroll in physics next year "in order to straighten the boys out."


Not much in this class,
Now to this day have I learned
But I try harder.

Phizzograms such as,
"Epicycle built for two"
Should be banned from class.

Planets have orbits.
They are all ellipses;
The sun's one focus.

Here I sit wasting
Precious time writing haiku
When I could relax.

The center was earth
Way back in the beginning
As geocentric.

A lunar eclipse
Predicted by early priests
Would turn them to gods.

Eccentricity
Can be calculated by
Using c o'er a.

Looking at the stars
Is what the class should do to
Please Mr. Bergdolt.

Writing these haiku
Has been almost the hardest
Thing in this whole course.

The night sky is huge,
We look up in amazement,
At the twinkling stars.

The planets revolve,
With a motion retrograde,
We can't explain it.

Complexities now
Brought from thorough reasoning
Become simple fact.

Laughing at humans,
People on other planets,
Destroying ourselves.

The earth revolving
Around the sun endlessly
'til man destroys it.

Sir Isaac Newton,
Astronomy and the stars
Were most of his life.

The great falling stars;
They make huge, dipping commas
In the nighttime sky