Re: Apparent weight

[Joseph Bellina <jbellina@saintmarys.edu>]

Do you mean to say that you are all constructing you own meaning for this 
concepts...that can't be...I thought there was a dogma out there that 
we expect all students to get and get it right :-)

cheers

On Sun, 15 Feb 1998, 
Rauber, Joel Phys wrote:

> > This is an argument no one is going to win--again because we all have our
> > own comfort zones on this _and_ because we're not about to be conviced (or
> > haven't been through all the rhetoric) that one view is _correct_ and the
> > other _wrong_.
>
> Exactly, no one can win it because neither party is wrong, they are starting 
> with different definitions, as a member of the "bathroom scale" faction, no 
> comments please, I simply brought up the idea as an alternative way to 
> define Weight that avoids some conceptual problems with regard to what we 
> see inside the Shuttle.
>
> Defining weight as Mg is a perfectly valid starting point, but requires some 
> fancy footwork for then understanding terminology like "weightless".
>
> Joel