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Re: Conservation Laws



At 08:19 3/13/00 -0800, John M wrote:

Totally inelastic collisions *always* involve dissipation....it is only
systems--like rail cars--that have internal structure and
are, therefore, capable of storing internal energy that *can* have
inelastic collisions. As I recall, some of the earliest evidence for
quarks was the observation of inelastic scattering of electrons off of
nucleons. This observation was taken to imply that the nucleon was able to
dissipate energy into internal modes that would not exist if it did not
have structure.

John Mallinckrodt


Heee yah! A deep insight. liked that!


brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
Altus OK

You got that wrong. Here in our part of the south, its "Yeeh Hah!"

Hugh
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