Re: [Phys-l] Equations (causal relationship)

[Rick Tarara <rtarara@saintmarys.edu>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Mallinckrodt" <ajm@csupomona.edu>
> I think John D. may be being a bit disingenuous here.  Bob seems to
> be responding to JD's previous suggestion that one can add
> accelerations due to different forces acting on the same object just
> as one can add the forces themselves.  But JD seems now to be
> changing the subject to one of relative accelerations which nobody
> will disagree are additive.
And for which the 'Forces cause acceleration' lobby can point to separate 
(net) forces as causing each acceleration--one net force acting on the car, 
one net force acting on the table.  ;-)

Rick