Re: (dv/dt) terminology: opportunity for improvement

[Larry Woolf <Larry.Woolf@GAT.COM>]

Action is already a well defined term.

For a nice reference, see the Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. 1, Chapter
19, "The Principle of Least Action" (a verbatim lecture that describes the
origin of Feynman's fascination with the sum over all paths idea that
ultimately led to his diagrammatic formulation of quantum mechanics.)


At 1:19 PM -0700 11/10/2002, paul o johnson wrote:
> How about:
>
> action (the bringing about of an alteration) -- as in force equals mass
> times action, unactioned reference frame, the action due to gravity.

Larry Woolf,General Atomics,San Diego, CA 92121; Phone: 858-526-8575; FAX:
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