Re: When Physical Intuition Fails

[Bob LaMontagne <rlamont@POSTOFFICE.PROVIDENCE.EDU>]

Oops - It was Oren Quist wasn't it! Sorry Oren :-)

Bob at PC

Brian Whatcott wrote:

> At 03:46 PM 10/28/02, Bob Lamontagne, you wrote:
> > [John Mallinckrodt]
> >
> > > > At some time the increasing forward linear speed of the wheel will
> > equal the
> > > > decreasing tangential speed of the rim (R x omega). This will be the
> > > > end of slippage.
> > >
> > > That general conclusion is not hard to sell people on.  The
> > > "difficult part" is determining what that final speed is.
> >
> > Yes - entirely right. At that time there were people asking that the
> > solution be held
> > back. I was just trying to give a hint that would lead to a simple
> > statement of
> > conservation of angular momentum - the formula for which was supplied by Brian
> > Whatcott later.
>
> /snip/
>
> > Bob at PC
>
> Not me, Bob: I offered a naive view.
>
> Regards
> Brian
>
> Brian Whatcott
>    Altus OK                      Eureka!
>
> This posting is the position of the writer, not that of SUNY-BSC, NAU or the AAPT.

This posting is the position of the writer, not that of SUNY-BSC, NAU or the AAPT.