Re: CAUSATION IN PHYSICS

[Joel Rauber <Joel_Rauber@SDSTATE.EDU>]

unsigned wrote in part:

> > The fact that the relationship is not manifest in the mathematical
> > expression of Newton's second law merely indicates that the
> description is
> > incomplete.
>
> Aha.  That seems to agree with half of what I've been saying,
> namely the
> part that says F=ma is an equivalence, allowing F to be
> calculated in terms
> of ma, and vice versa.
>
> So is there some _other_ law that rectifies the
> incompleteness of F=ma by
> introducing an asymmetry between F and ma?

As noted by another poster, I'm awfully tempted to say that there is
another
law that introduces the asymmetry, I usually call it Newton's first law.

Joel Rauber
Joel_Rauber@sdstate.edu