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[ST] Mad Science: was - Wrap-up of Roethlis-what-his-name?
- Subject: [ST] Mad Science: was - Wrap-up of Roethlis-what-his-name?
- From: <sprint_st@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 5:44:57 -0700
Emile,
Where did you come up with inertia is mass???? This is what I alluded to when I talked about strange science on this site. We ride bikes not plot black holes. As Newton described it (although I believe he didn't call it inertia), a body at rest wants to stay at rest, like me watching the super bowl; a body in motion tends to maintain the same velocity unless something changes, like Rothlisberger and the woman. Mass is a property of matter. In the USA we mistakenly call it weight but that is the mass of a body acted upon by the force of gravity. Again, going back to high school and college physics books from in excess of 35 years ago, I never had a professor, teacher or book equate inertia and mass.
Rod
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