Simple To Measure
Liner notes
A MathsJam Jam song. My main motivation for writing it was to sneak in the Nelson Candela joke. The verses are about the triangulation of France by Delambre and Méchain, and the way the kilogram was originally defined.Advancing, degree by degree
All through the Pyrenees - to Catalunya
We're the ones who'll get the metre defined
From Dunquerque to Barcelona with a table of sines
It's simple to measure when you standardise
It's simple to measure when you standardise
It's simple to measure when you standardise
It's simple to measure when you standardise
Got water, at four degrees
Exactly four degrees -- when it's densest
Take a cube, ten centimetres a side
That's a kilogram (at least until the SI)
It's simple to measure when you standardise
It's simple to measure when you standardise
It's simple to measure when you standardise
It's simple to measure when you standardise
Everybody needs a thousand for a kilo, everybody needs a thousand
Everybody needs a thousand for a kilo, everybody needs a thousand
Everybody needs a thousand for a kilo, everybody needs a thousand
That's why we standardise
Nikola Tesla (standardise!)
Sir Isaac Newton (standardise!)
Alessandro Volta (standardise!)
Werner von Siemens (standardise!)
Blaise Pascal (standardise!)
William Thompson, First Baron Kelvin
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
Andre-Marie Ampere (standardise!)
Joseph Henry (standardise!)
Anders Celsius (standardise!)
Nelson Candela (standardise!)
It's simple to measure when you standardise
It's simple to measure when you standardise
It's simple to measure when you standardise
It's simple to measure when you standardise