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Article #1222idealizations??
From: Govind Menon
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 17:31
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 17:31
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The case of the hard sphere and plane is an interesting scenario, but by no
means realistic. If however, you do wish to conduct a thought experiment,
constrained to idealizations, then permit me if you will to make yet another
reasonable assumption.
There is nothing preventing a perfectly spherical and a perfectly planar
material from being infinitely rigid. Subject to this condition the bodies
do not have to deform under infinite pressure at the contact point.
cheerio,
Govind Menon
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!think.com!mips!swrinde!gatech!willis.cis.uab.edu!ftp!menon From: menon@ftp.phy.uab.edu (Govind Menon) Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: idealizations?? Message-ID: <1992Apr15.173142.6990@cis.uab.edu> Date: 15 Apr 92 17:31:42 GMT Sender: root@cis.uab.edu (Bruce Williams) Organization: University of Alabama at Birmingham Lines: 11