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Article #1223Re: idealizations??
From: William K Glunt
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 18:20
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 18:20
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In article <1992Apr15.173142.6990@cis.uab.edu> menon@ftp.phy.uab.edu (Govind Menon) writes: >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 How fast would such a sphere transmit shock waves in it's interior? -- Dr. William K Glunt | Are you ABNORMAL? ************************| Then you are probably better than most people! U of Kentucky math dept | Are alien space monsters bringing a STARTLING NEW home phone 606 258 8864 | WORLD? from _The book of the SubGenius_
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Newsgroups: sci.physics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!darwin.sura.net!gatech!ukma!bud From: bud@ms.uky.edu (William K Glunt) Subject: Re: idealizations?? References: <1992Apr15.173142.6990@cis.uab.edu> Message-ID: <1992Apr15.142013.8494@ms.uky.edu> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 18:20:13 GMT Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences Lines: 19