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Re: Newton's second law



It is very dangerous to expand N2 into F = mdv/dt + v dm dt.

I'd reiterate that it is far worse than merely "dangerous." Except
for those times when it is trivially correct (i.e., when dm/dt = 0),
it is almost always dead wrong. And in those very few cases where it
is neither trivial nor dead wrong, it is right for the wrong reason.

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John Mallinckrodt mailto:ajm@csupomona.edu
Cal Poly Pomona http://www.csupomona.edu/~ajm