Flanders & Swann - 'First And Second Law'
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- Flanders & Swann - 'First And Second Law'
From the stage performance 'At The Drop Of Another Hat' in 1964
Lyrics:
Michael = M, Donald = D
M: The First law of Thermodynamics.
M: Heat is work and work is heat
D: Heat is work and work is heat
M: Very Good.
D: The Second law of thermodynamics.
M: Heat cannot of itself pass from one body to a hotter body
D: Heat cannot of itself pass from one body to a hotter body
M: Heat won't pass from a cooler to a hotter
D: Heat won't pass from a cooler to a hotter
M: You can try it if you like but you'd far better not-a
D: You can try it if you like but you'd far better not-a
M: 'Cos the cold in the cooler will get hotter as a rule-a
D: 'Cos the cold in the cooler will get hotter as a rule-a
M: 'Cos the hotter body's heat will pass to the cooler
D: 'Cos the hotter body's heat will pass to the cooler
Heat is work and work is heat and work is heat and heat is work
M: Heat will pass by conduction and
D: Heat will pass by conduction and
M: Heat will pass by convection and
D: Heat will pass by convection and
M: Heat will pass by radiation
D: Heat will pass by radiation
And that's a physical law
M: Heat is work and work's a curse
M: And all the heat in the universe
M: Is gonna cool down,
M: 'Cos it can't increase
M: Then there'll be no more work
M: And there'll be perfect peace
D: Really?
M: Yeah, that's entropy, Man.
M: And all because of the second law of thermodynamics which lays down:
M: That you can't pass heat from a cooler to a hotter
M: Try it if you like but you'd far better not-a
'Cos the cold in the cooler will get hotter as a rule-a
'Cos the hotter body's heat will pass to the cooler
Oh, you can't pass heat from a cooler to a hotter
Try it if you like but you'll only look a fool-a
'Cos the cold in the cooler will get hotter as a rule-a
And that's a physical law
M: Oh, I'm hot
D: That's because you've been working!
M: Oh, Beatles, nothing!
That's the first and second laws of thermodynamics.
I have fond memories of listening to this album on long car journeys at the age of about six.
Some time later, my A-level physics teacher used this song to introduce the concept of thermodynamics to the class ,and was delighted to find out that I recognised it!
"Yeah, that's 'entropy', man."
jjj nnb8
this line is the main reason i was able to find this song again
In school, I passed a test about the second law of thermodynamics by learning the words of the Flanders and Swan song! I have always loved them. I saw "At the Drop of a Hat" and "At the Drop of Another Hat" in London when I was young. Why is there no comedy like that any more?
Sort of similar comedy style that I adore: "Festival of the Spoken Nerd", Proper math/s and science comedy at its best. "Putting the FUN into FUNdamental Theorem of Calculus!"
That sounds like Tom Lehrer who wrote a song called "The New Math" implying that the new way of teaching maths introduced into US schools in the 1960s was only understandable by children, not adults. I believe that Tom Lehrer is still alive but very elderly. He was a maths lecturer in an American university, but enjoyed writing these hugely funny songs. Please advise where you can locate the songs to which you referred.
I love Tome Lehrer's work and I'm currently learning "the elements" on the piano as I'I've already learnt the lyrics. You can find FOTSN (festival of the spoken nerd) stuff by just searching that in UA-cam or going to their website, festivalofthespokennerd.com
Flanders and Swann are wonderful. "you can't pass heat from a cooler to a hotter". Listen to the words. Very clever.
I know this is a quite old comment, but I see that nobody recommended the science stuff that They Might Be Giants does. Quite fun and funny, but informative as well. They even did a correction song for "The Sun Is a Mass Of Incandescent Gas" called "The Sun Is a Miasma of Incandescent Plasma", which gives you a feeling for their sense of humour.
See also Helen Arney's nerdy stuff, which is loads of fun.
I love how he says he's waiting for the play to come out as opposed to the film coming out
Well if the scientist has made a rude retort, then he has the perfect vessel within which to synthesis that H2SO4.
I just played this to explain to my wife why we should leave the windows open to keep our house cool. Priceless.
I have just found my fathers cds. Can’t wait for my next 6 hour drive, will be fun. i’ll be singing all the songs. yeah
Childhood memories, my mother use to play these records, priceless!
I also learned these from the records. It was years before I saw on telly that one of the songs was performed as a visual comedy.
this is in fact how 11 year old me learned the first and second laws of thermodynamics (eleven years ago), which, yeah that does explain all of me
Not a bad foundational influence to have. :)
I presume you also appreciate Weird Al's song "Pancreas"?
That's how I learnt it, too - and I still think the Second Law is far better expressed in Flanders' words than those in the text book.
I must have listened to this dozens of times, and I have only just twigged the 'rude retort' pun. Simply marvelous!
This has to be my "Most Favourite Song of All Time"!!!
"And the reciprocal of pi to your good wife"
When you have a thermofluids exam tomorrow and you end up listeing to this in a fit of madness whilst panic revising.
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Was all down about failing tomorrow's chemistry test, but this out a smile on my face
Same boat as you, gonna fail chemistry tomorrow but this is great
@@hancailer1470 all the best either way!
It's quite telling that "make a rude retort" gets a big laugh from the audience in 1964, whereas I've had a good education and have listened to the joke many times and I've only just realised that it's a pun about laboratory equipment. It might just be my ignorance, but it sort of demonstrates that the gulf between science and humanities learning is a lot worse now than when C. P. Snow was writing about it!
At the risk of my seeming stupid, would you mind explaining the joke in that line?
@@treewrecker8050 I think it's just that 'retort' can mean either a reply or a piece of laboratory glassware used by chemists for distillation experiments. It's definitely not a very accessible joke, but I assume that's why the audience are laughing. I certainly don't think we were taught about retorts in science class at school, but perhaps for well-educated people who grew up in the early 20th century it would just have been general knowledge.
@@jg9125 Thank you for the explanation; I suppose education has changed quite drastically.
or not
@@jg9125 We USED retorts in our chemistry lessons in laboratories. 1950s You need a laboratory for practical basic chemistry for secondary schools. They were heated on gas bunsen burners and i suppose you don't have gas supplies .
Lovely, wish there were more satirical songs like this
There can be only one title to a prequel - if ever there was one - to this song: “zeroth law”
Awesome song.
This will be the last song played before the heat death of the universe. Hopefully on a warped gramophone. :3
Song starts at 2:07 btw
2:07 the first law of thermodynamics
This song & skit is so funny! Genius. It was "covered" by the Canadian comedy duo Wayne & Shuster, but I can't find a video of that...
brilliance....
I used to listen to this whole show on a CD on long car journeys. I’m 14 and I have weird parents, okay?
Only the best parents do this
I was 14 in 1983, and it was records and cassette tapes. My chemistry teacher played this song for us. Flanders and Swann are forever icons of geek culture, just like Weird Al and Tom Lehrer, and this might even be the song that expresses it best. Did you know Swann was friends with J R R Tolkein and C. S. Lewis?
@I am the Cat Human same here. I love them so much. They’re absolutely brilliant.
Same here,
@@AlanCanon2222 I have never heard Weird Al, Tom Lehrer, Flanders and Sann, Tolkein, and Lewis mentioned in the same thought before, and it is a wonderful feeling to have. And I didn't know that... though it somehow doesn't surprise me. :D
I came here from Blundell
I had Blundell as a lecturer in 2009!
Never heatd this track! Thank You!
Grand Designs? 🥲
Same 😂
The error character is supposed to be a smiling face with a tear btw
Twilight zone style ending. Brilliant!
Terrific.
Guten Morgen Stuttgart
Anyone else found themselves here after watching Grand Designs!?
yep haha - it was so random.....
Uh huh
Recall them at Oxford rag week 1971. The sexual life of a camel be stranger than anyone thinks in the height of the breeding season is accused of Buggering the Spinx , and so on
Literally my life in a nutshell.
the life of the universe in a nutschell
Stuttgart wya
Somehow ended up here from Quora!
Someone needs to explain this to Rick Perry.
If you're looking for an impossible task to perform, you've just found one . . . .
Here's a great way to teach the laws of physics to the kiddies!
Commedy has truly evolved. I didn't even smirk from this video. I wonder if they would find today's comedy funny.
"That's entropy, man."
It's like they're beatniks but educated.
Jonas, warst du schon hier?
Dr Clarke sent me here, reply if you're in me class yo
love dr clarke!
year later still going strong just got here
Yup still here
yeah DR Clarke is a g
Very funny.
Here at 213,072 views.
He sounds EXACTLY like Stewie in the beginning...
FINALLY
who else is in p4 history (wassim i know you're there)
MSE - studenten?
wo sind meine stuttgarter
heard
3:31
"That's entropy man"
i am here from a crossword :)
Good luck with the Listener Davey!
sorry ai said bad to this
dry song