Re: Can this be true?

["Glenn A. Carlson" <gcarlson@MAIL.WIN.ORG>]

No so if the ultimate tensile strength of the masses is less than the
ultimate tensile strength of the springs.  As I said before, "change the
assumptions; we change the answer."

Glenn A. Carlson, P.E.
St. Charles County Community College
St. Peters, MO

> Subject: Re: Can this be true?
> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 20:24:17 -0400
> From: Bob Sciamanda <trebor@VELOCITY.NET>
>
> If you insist on the idealized model of the string as identical masses
> connected by identical springs with identical "breaking tensions", and no
> imperfections, then slowly and continuously stretching this model should
> result in all springs failing at once!
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Glenn A. Carlson <gcarlson@MAIL.WIN.ORG>
> To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 10:44 AM
> Subject: Re: Can this be true?
>
> > Change the assumptions; we change the answer.