Re: Forces

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From: Guntbert Reiter
Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 00:00

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John Mallinckrodt <ajmallinckro@CSUPOMONA.EDU> wrote:

>Imagine all you want, but you've got a powerful adversary in the
>form of Newton's Laws.  (Do some of us really imagine that one
>could tap on the end of a freely mobile, originally stationary
>pencil in a direction perpendicular to its length and find that
>the result of the tap is pure translation?)

Well, I dont.

>But you STILL need to account for the
>rotation that is observed in the inertial frame and there IS only
>one force in that frame.  

OK. I give in. Part of my statements were a result of
unconsciously carrying a *static* concept into a dynamic problem.

Guntbert
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