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[Phys-L] Re: SciAM goof



The short URL works. The original article was published in Nature Materials
so has anyone looked at the orginal? Beyond the obvious Joules/Newtons
mixup there is also the use of strain when stress is meant. Any freshman
engineer should be able to tell you that.

They may have reprinted a short digest put out by the original journal, and
assumed that serious proofing is not needed. Of course part of the problem
is that it is biology oriented article, and biologists are not noted for
their understanding of physics. The reverse is also true, so please note
that this is not a slur on biologists. The problem is that our physics
courses have been remiss when this sort of thing gets through.

John M. Clement
Houston, TX


Try this tinyURL version instead

http://tinyurl.com/8ttnk

Karim Diff


On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 07:17:18 -0700, SSHS KPHOX
<kphox@CHERRYCREEKSCHOOLS.ORG> wrote:

Forum for Physics Educators <PHYS-L@list1.ucc.nau.edu> on Thursday,
December 15, 2005 at 4:12 AM -0700 wrote:
Anthony reports that the orig. link was broken,

try
<http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?
articleID=0003B7E8-0127-139A-812783414B7F0000&ref=sciam&chanID=sa003>

Scientific American: Bone Resilience Depends on Angle of Attack

It is not broken but it breaks in my mail program after the ? with the
stuff before it blue and the after stuff not blue

Ken Fox

Try this tinyURL version instead

http://tinyurl.com/8ttnk

Karim Diff
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