{"id":412,"date":"2006-10-05T12:10:43","date_gmt":"2006-10-05T12:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=412"},"modified":"2006-12-31T12:48:37","modified_gmt":"2006-12-31T12:48:37","slug":"newtons-laws-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/newtons-laws-revisited-412","title":{"rendered":"Newton&#8217;s Laws revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some laws which Newton forgot to state\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>LAW OF QUEUE:  If you change queues, the one you have left will start to move faster than the one you are in now. <\/p>\n<p>LAW OF TELEPHONE:   When you dial a wrong number, you never get an engaged one.<\/p>\n<p>LAW OF MECHANICAL REPAIR:   After your hands become coated with grease, your  nose will begin to itch. <\/p>\n<p>LAW OF THE WORKSHOP:   Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.<\/p>\n<p>LAW OF THE ALIBI:   If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire. <\/p>\n<p>BATH THEOREM:   When the body is immersed in water, the telephone rings.<\/p>\n<p>LAW OF ENCOUNTERS: The probability of meeting someone you know increases  when you are with someone you don't want to be seen with.<\/p>\n<p>LAW OF THE RESULT:   When you try to prove to someone that a machine won't work, it will!<\/p>\n<p>LAW OF BIOMECHANICS:  The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.<\/p>\n<p>THEATRE RULE:   People with the seats at the furthest from the aisle arrive last.<\/p>\n<p>LAW OF COFFEE:   As soon as you sit down for a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold. <\/p>\n<p>[Thanks to K. for these. Original source unknown.]<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/newtons-laws-revisited-412#comments\" id=\"comms\">5 Comments<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some laws which Newton may have written if he was alive today...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}