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Re: Energy



Newton's balls
http://www.officeplayground.com/balanceballs.html
may be a nice demo of what John Denker stated:

"Flow means that any positive change in a given region is
balanced by a simultaneous negative change in an adjacent region.

In more detail:

Flow of quantity X means that any increase in quantity X
in a given region is balanced by a simultaneous decrease
in quantity X in an adjacent region.

That's what flow means. That all it means. That is what it has always
meant.

Flow = change + balance + simultaneity + adjacency"

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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Can anyone think of good ways to describe the domino example? Does anyone
use other demonstrations of flow where we visually see something flowing but
obviously realize matter itself is not flowing?


Michael D. Edmiston, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry & Physics
Chairman, Science Department
Bluffton College
280 West College Avenue
Bluffton, OH 45817