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Re: TIDES, pedagogy.



In Feynman's "The Character of Physical Law," there is a nice brief
discussion of tides on pages 11 and 12 with both the physical concepts and
historical context discussed.

Dr. Lawrence D. Woolf; General Atomics; 3550 General Atomics Court, San

Also in his famous 'Lectures' volume I, 7-4. He uses both of the blasphemous
terms 'bulges' AND 'centerfugal force' in his apostacy. I wish he had worked
'heat' in there, too. Nice picture of the bulges, too.

Dan '666' M

Dan MacIsaac, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Northern AZ Univ
danmac@nau.edu http://purcell.phy.nau.edu PHYS-L list owner