Card House

This weekend was another Chinese New Year performance weekend for me. 6 more weeks till I can drop dead and work more for school. Anyways I was staying at a disclosed location with my friends in Chinatown and was really bored. They were playing some kind of shooting game and I found a deck of cards. Since I don't know how to play solitaire and playing other cards games by myself and figuring out which hand will win grew tiresome, I started building a house.



As you can see in the picture the card house only goes up so far because of potential energy. As each card layer increases in height, the next layer on top will have that much more potential energy since PE=mgh. The tower eventually fell, because of the higher potential energy of the cards on top and the second law of thermodynamics, which states the entropy of the universe is the same or increasing. The highest level of the card fell into its more entropic state and leaving me forced to build another card tower (Note: I build card tower because Chinese people do not build card pyramids, we build tower-like pagodas)