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Physicists are usually ignorant of such real world oddities as these.
That is the kind of ignorance which leads to interactions that annoy the
man in the street (who may be knowledgeable in some art or craft). An
example came up recently when a teacher overreached his competence in
suggesting that bullets dropped vertically and fired horizontally fall
at the same rate. People with knowledge of small arms ballistics (many
of whom never take standard physics courses) know that is untrue. The
disease even manifests itself more dramatically when physicists try to
put other fields, some of which are doing nicely already, on a "proper
scientific" foundation. An example is the introduction of "scientific
pitch" based on a middle C frequency of 256 Hz to make calculations
easier for even tone-deaf physicists!
Leigh