Ned Simmons wrote:

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says...

Ned Simmons wrote:

Were your courses taken in a physics or an engineering department? It'd
be interesting to see whether the the antis/pros tend to divide along
physics/engineering lines. The materials I looked at make me think this
would be the case. In general, physics references limited the definition
of force to the basic forces of nature (nuclear, electromagnetic,
gravitational), while engineering references based the definition on
F=ma. So to find a difference in the perception of centrifugal force
between engineers and physicists would not be surprising.

Ned Simmons


They were at Penn State in the Physics dept. I still have my text,
I think. I'll look it up if I do and supply the pertinent info.
I wanted Electronic engineering but the EE school was loaded
with power transmission and generation courses so I opted for
physics major with applicable EE courses. :-)
...lew...



An ME degree for me from Tufts University in 1974, though all BS
candidates took the same freshman physics course in the physics
department. The chairman of the dept, a Nobel laureate, was the lecturer
for the class and had been for many years. Long enough that he had
developed a habit of pacing the stage of the lecture hall, pausing at
one end each time he made a lap to hang his hand on a hook in the wall.
It was tradition for someone to remove the hook a few weeks into the
semester, completely throwing off the rhythm of the lecture. The hook
would be back in place for the next class.

Ned Simmons
Hum - me Physics for a first degree - enjoyed E&M not mechanics. So EE came
easier for me solving some issues the boys from the business classes got in
trouble with with their paperwork. As time moved on - more EE than physics then
more physics for a while or more spiking - network transmission lines and stuff...

My Atomic prof - dept head - was a 'technician (PH D at the time) for the Manhattan project.
He would start a class at 7:30 a.m. and be filling a board - then start to slow down
and sit and dead asleep in mid sentence. Each of us took turns scratching our desk leg
and he would continue, sit up and stand to complete the lecture. Super man.

Martin

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On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 21:59:41 -0500, "Phil Kangas"
vaguely proposed a theory
.......and in reply I say!:

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Until someb ody else starts another argument about whether physics
should interacvt with real life, I guess...G

Take a nice slow breath, Nick, it's over now, you'll be
Ok, this too shall pass.....cheers! ;) Phil