Re: [Phys-L] [SPAM] Re: Physics, Errors and Different Teaching Styles

[Chuck Britton <cvbritton@embarqmail.com>]

C'mon, Hugh

How long ago was it when you first came to realize that the tabulated 
values of 'g' here on earth include the rotational effect?? 
(Really!!)


At 2:22 PM -0400 6/27/12, Hugh Haskell wrote:
>  because g is *not* zero at the space station. It's at least 8-9 
> N/kg. You want to consider it somewhere where g is close to 
> zero--perhaps in deep space, where g might approach zero (but we all 
> no that there is nowhere where Newtonian gravity is exactly zero. If 
> there were there would be no galaxies or clusters of galaxies, or 
> even superclusters of galaxies).