Re: A weighty subject

[Leigh Palmer <palmer@SFU.CA>]

> Leigh,
> You confuse me! It seems you first accept Daniell's definition as
> equivalent to your own and as "equivalent to the definitions in all
> textbooks" .  Then you say that your definition is "more accurate and more
> useful than the conventional definition."  Which is it? (Perhaps I
> mis-read).

Perhaps I was unclear. Daniell's definition is traditional; I'm
advocating a different definition. Daniell says g represents the
gravitational force. I think it should represent the inertial
force which is measured in the laboratory by a scale.

Leigh