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Re: can we say "g"?



At 03:03 PM 1/25/01 -0500, Herbert H Gottlieb wrote:
If "current" is accepted to mean electron flow, then wouldn't
"current flow" be electron flow flow?

I agree that "current flow" is an ugly pleonasm.

I am willing to omit "acceleration due to gravity" ONLY
IF you are willing to omit the term "current flow".

This attempts to draw a parallel between "current" and "gravity", but it's
lost on me.

Consider the following:

1) The gravitational potential
2) The clock-rate shift due to gravity
3) The longitudinal momentum of a gravity wave
4) The acceleration due to gravity.

I think in statement 4, the word "acceleration" is nontrivial and
nonredundant. It distinguishes the "acceleration" property from the other
properties that gravity has.

BTW I consider the word "gravity" essentially synonymous with
"gravitation". This agrees with what my dictionaries say, and with what I
hear around the physics lab.