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Re: Centrifuge in "World Book"



And now for the bad news, the article on the centrifuge and the article on
centrifugal force were attributed to Leon N Cooper. The confusing article
on weight was attributed to Lucille B. Garmon, Ph.D., Prof. of Chemistry and
Physics and Chairman, Department of Chemistry, West Georgia College.

Actually some of the science articles are fairly well written. The
centrifugal force one can be misleading to the average person, while it is
technically correct. The others have outrageous errors. One wonders if the
original author used the term density, and then an anonymous editor changed
it.

John M. Clement
Houston, TX