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

[Chuck Britton <cvbritton@embarqmail.com>]

You're right - the orbital effect couldn't very well be 'tabulated'.
It would have a 24 hr variation wouldn't it?

I've never heard it discussed.
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At 12:35 PM -0400 6/29/12, Hugh Haskell wrote:
> At 9:03 AM -0400 6/28/12, Chuck Britton wrote:
> > 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!!)
> C,mon, Chuck
>
> I wasn't talking about rotation *of* the earth, but rotation of the 
> earth *about* the sun, as I thought my wording should have made 
> obvious. The earth is "on the end of a string" in its trip about the 
> sun, and I was assuming that the effect of that situation was 
> negligible. But if the "string" were shorter and the trip around 
> quicker, would it still be negligible? It isn't when you are sitting 
> in a centrifuge at a NASA training center.
>
> Hugh
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> put more emphasis on finding a good substitute for oil and worry 
> less about where
> more oil is to come from.  Our people are ingenious. New discoveries 
> are all around
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