Re: [Phys-L] My 2 cents re: irresistible forces and immovable objects.

["Don" <dgpolvani@gmail.com>]

Thanks for putting this into a mathematical form which I can relate to and clearly understand.

Don


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> I might reword the question as:
> In the one dimensional Newtonian 2nd law (A = F/M),  what is A if both F and
> M increase without limit?  The answer is that A is undefined unless one
> specifies just how F and M increase.  Physically and mathematically, this
> limiting process implies some mechanism which controls the increasing F and
> M values and their relative rate of increase.  Of course this unending process
> is purely mathematical - at any real step in the process (and in the
> mathematical limit) F and M have definite magnitudes and A = F/M is well
> defined.