Fun Definition and 428 Threads

Fun is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "Light-hearted pleasure, enjoyment, or amusement; boisterous joviality or merrymaking; entertainment". Although particularly associated with recreation and play, it may be encountered during working time.

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    Can Tetris Inspire a Halloween Costume?

    Halloween Fun -- Tetris Inspired Here is some halloween-costume fun. I guess Tetris has had a vast impact on their life. :rolleyes: http://blog.f00kie.com/files/tetris1.wmv http://blog.f00kie.com/pics/tetris1/tetris6_small.jpg
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    Riddle: How to Escape an Island with Lava & Gun-Wielding Boats

    here is one of my favorites Ok, Imagine you are on a small island. Now, At this moment, lava is cascading down all sides of a volcano. You can not stay on this island and survive. Now, in the water surrounding this island their is a complete ring of people in boats with guns, who have to...
  3. H

    Exploring the Physics of Fun: Neck Tension on a Water Slide

    A child is lying on her back. The tension in the muscles of her neck is 55N as she raises her head to look past her toes and out the motel window. Ten minutes later she is screaming and sliding feet first down a water slide at a constant speed of 5.7 m/s in a horizontal curve of radius 2.40 m...
  4. R

    Fun Problem: Area of Overlapping circles

    Picture two indentical circles with their radii overlapping. They form an intersection, what is the area of their intersection? I solved it the calculus route and it can be solved geometrically. Have fun.
  5. T

    Happy Halloween: Spooky Fun & Festive Treats!

    Happy Halloween!
  6. S

    What are some fun and interesting data sets to explore?

    Hi everyone :smile: ! I have been looking for some data about something fun or interesting. I've only been able to find boring things like the results to a coin toss. Does anyone know of a website that has real data on something fun or interesting? ~Thanks
  7. ShawnD

    The Upsides of School: Fun, Women, and Booze!

    Many of the people here hate school, but I love school. Beneath all the hard work is fun, entertainment and an endless supply of excuses. Most of you probably don't even realized how great these things are until you've lost them. For starters, the girls are great. Where else do you get to sit...
  8. W

    Fun, but difficult mechanics question

    Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. A stone is thrown vertically upward at a speed of 45.50 m/s at time t=0. A second stone is thrown upward with the same speed 3.810 seconds later. 1) At what time are the two stones at the same height? 2) At what height do the...
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    Why are other people having more fun than me?

    What is it with them that makes them deserve it, while I have to miss out? What am I a spastic? I guess the fun comes in proportion with how much you are above a spastic... but if I know this then how could I be unaware, un-spastic?
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    The fun wormhole neutrino through experiment and zero inertia mass action

    As some theory resuly, in p or n, there is a tini wormhole, to pass the tini hole, only by a neutrino. Naturely lower enerty is super. To freeze p or n self whirlpoor in one direction by strong enough magnetic field. and pole the neutrino by strong laser beam structure. After some neutrino to...
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    Are graduate level math and physics classes as fun as the basic ones?

    Hello all, I am wanting to major in physics, and plan on going to graduate school. I am only in my freshman year, and taking basic classes but the math classes are very fun. Are the graduate level classes for the maths and physics fun?
  12. Ivan Seeking

    News A conspiracy theory, just for fun

    Something occurred to me tonight as I watched the latest on the Iraq situation. I am just passing this on as some wild speculation that seems to make a bit of sense. Going into the war, I was extremely concerned that we had been duped. To me, Powell's presentation to the UN had all the...
  13. Ivan Seeking

    CSICOP Albuquerque Conference Has Fun Exposing Hoaxes, Myths and Manias

    http://www.csicop.org/si/2004-03/albuquerque-conference.html
  14. pelastration

    News The SM masters having fun in Iraqs prison

    American dignity and freedom in Iraq? The great feeling of having the power? Shame on US ... bring prisoners to JUSTICE ?. What justice? Sick Justice. A photo from TV shows an Iraqi prisoner with a hood over his head, standing on a box and with wires connected to his hands. Photo: Sky News...
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    Fun problem: ? x / (x^2 + 6x + 10) dx

    Fun problem: ? x / (x^2 + 6x + 10) dx Integration by parts proves 1=1! My mathematical fame is at hand! So how would you do this one?
  16. Simfish

    Having Fun - is it an evolutionary advantage?

    How would the concept of having fun benefit animals? To the point in which natural selection favors animals that have fun over animals that do not have fun. I know it would benefit young animals, but how would the concept of fun benefit an older animal, especially to the point in which...
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    How can I make a cost-effective foam machine for a party using household items?

    I'm thinking of throwing a party in three months or so. A fad that has been getting more popular lately is a foam party. To do this you need a foam machine. Rental for one of these units is well above $100, and sometimes around $400. That's a little pricy for my budget, but I figure that with a...
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    Find a 5-Digit Number with Unique Prime & Square Digits

    Just abit of fun! Find a 5 digit number that: · Has no two identical digits. · Has two digits that are perfect squares. · Has two digits that are prime. · Has one digit that is neither prime, or a perfect square. · That has the second digit six less than the fourth...
  19. Doc Al

    Buoyancy Puzzler - just for fun

    Here's a little puzzle that may provide some amusement. (I hope it's not too trivial!) I have attached a (rough) diagram to accompany the following description. Consider an empty tank with a circular hole in its bottom. (The tank is supported by a table that also has a hole it.) Also...
  20. U

    Just for fun : What's the next number in this sequence ?

    0, 1, 2, 9, 44, 265 ... Assume that the sequence has no "randomly" assigned values. That is, that (perhaps apart from the first) all the elements can be deduced from the index integer (n=1,2,3, etc) and the preceding values of the sequence. I don't claim there is a unique solution or...
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    Fun and Quirky Answering Machine Greetings to Keep Telemarketers at Bay

    I'm sure most of us have, at one time or another, thought of silly greetings to leave on our answering machine. I have recently come up with one that I wish to share. I would also like to know if anyone here is the legal expertise to tell me whether or not I can legally enforce the following...
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    How do I calculate the distance of a particle in an electric field at t=2.0s?

    First off I would like to say that, even though this may seam like I'm just asking the question I’m supposed to answer, and hoping for freebees. That is not the case. I have a tendency of making problems that are sum what easy way harder than they have to be, and after having dun a group of...
  23. Monique

    How do frog legs affect jumping distance?

    Fun for Molecular Biologists :) Seeking romance #1 I’ve been single-stranded too long! Lonely ATGCATG would like to pair up with congenital TACGTAC. #2 Menage a trois! Ligands seeks two receptors into binding and mutual phosphorylation. Let’s get together and transduce some signals...
  24. Ivan Seeking

    Try Out Your ESP - Fun Tests & Serious Research

    Test your "ESP" Just for fun folks. A simple test: http://www.eciis.org/esptest/tester2.jsp More sophisticated: http://www.mdani.demon.co.uk/para/esp1.htm Please keep all ESP arguments in the M&PS forum: https://www.physicsforums.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&daysprune=30&forumid=5
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    Calculators TI Calculator Fun: Unleash the Hidden Powers of Your TI Calculator

    If you own any type of TI calculator (82, 83, 83+, 86, 89, 92, etc.), you may not know that it can do a lot more than math! You can build a robot (http://smallrobot.com), collect data like distance, velocity and acceleration (http://www.eaiusa.com/mo__texas__instruments__calculators__CBL-CBR.htm...
  26. Ivan Seeking

    What Happened to Going to a Beer with Some Friends?

    ""Flash mobs," in which people show up at an assigned place at a certain time, perform some brief acts, and then leave, have descended on stores, a hotel and even a piece of a park in New York." http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030725/od_uk_nm/oukoe_life_mob_1
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    Google Fun & Games: WMD "I'm Feeling Lucky

    I'm not sure if anyone has stumbled across this, I'm sure most of you have, but here it is just in case. In the google search thingy type: "Weapons of Mass Destruction" and then press the "I'm Feeling Lucky" Button. Enjoy.
  28. U

    Experimenting with a Frog: A Fun Challenge?

    I wonder if you could scale this experiment up with a human it could be fun, mind you I am not convinced that the pioneering little frog was alive for very long, if you watch the movie it also seems that only one side of its body works but maybe its just confused or enjoying itself :/ see...
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