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Article #1246Re: idealizations??
From: SCOTT I CHASE
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 20:01
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 20:01
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In article <1992Apr15.142013.8494@ms.uky.edu>, bud@ms.uky.edu (William K Glunt) writes... >In article <1992Apr15.173142.6990@cis.uab.edu> menon@ftp.phy.uab.edu (Govind Menon) writes: >> >>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? > Everyone knows that the finite speed of light sets limit on the rigidity of material bodies. But as long as we're discussion perfectly rigid, perfectly hard, perfectly smooth bodies, why bring physics into it? -Scott
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!csa2.lbl.gov!sichase From: sichase@csa2.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE) Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: idealizations?? Date: 16 Apr 92 20:01:45 GMT Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA Lines: 16 Distribution: na Message-ID: <22756@dog.ee.lbl.gov> References: <1992Apr15.173142.6990@cis.uab.edu> <1992Apr15.142013.8494@ms.uky.edu> Reply-To: sichase@csa2.lbl.gov NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.254.197 News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4