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Re: classroom analysis of disasters



I agree with John that analyzing footage of the disasters is in extremely
bad taste.

Would you analyze the motion of JFK's assassination as an example of
momentum conservation?

Would you be willing to take the "60 Minutes" challenge and go on TV to
explain why it is appropriate to analyze the worst disaster in modern
American history as an appropriate exercise for a physics class - within a
week of the actual event?

Would you analyze the motion of people who fell to their deaths as an
example of acceleration due to gravity?

This does nothing more than promote the notion that scientists are unfeeling
propeller heads.

Dr. Lawrence D. Woolf; General Atomics; 3550 General Atomics Court, San
Diego, CA 92121; Phone:858-455-4475; FAX:858-455-4268;
http://www.sci-ed-ga.org

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Subject: classroom analysis of disasters


If using the WTC attack for classroom analysis is OK
(a proposition that IMHO is, at best, grotesquely
untimely), how do you propose to use the aftermath of
the anthrax attack when it comes? John Barrere

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