RE: Force Sensors Must Measure Acceleration?? (fwd)

["A. R. Marlow" <marlow@beta.loyno.edu>]

On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, LUDWIK KOWALSKI wrote:

> I am noticing that now we are talking about instruments, not human senses.
> Yesterday I was asking myself three questions. 1) do I have a sens of
> acceleration (or force)? 2) where is it located 3) do my sound sensing
> mechanisms responds to pressure or to intensity? I was tempted to answer
> the second question in public but did not know how to say it politely. It
> is close to the sensor which reacts when I feel "vertigo (?)"
>
> Which particular instrument are we to vote about?   Ludwik
That's really why I thought we better have two separate threads  --  the 
earlier one on sensing or feeling acceleration (human senses), and the
present one dealing with the proposition that someone had never
encountered a force detector that didn't measure acceleration first.
To register your conclusions on human sensing abilities the other thread
would probably be more appropriate.  This subject line (Force Must
Measure Acceleration??) is more to see if linguistic usage, such as "g's,"
"g-forces," Etc., has so changed the thinking and language of current 
physicists that it is really impossible, or at least not useful, to
distinguish forces from accelerations, or dynamics from kinematics.
But granted, the two themes are closely related.
  
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