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From: RAUBER, JOEL [mailto:JOEL_RAUBER@SDSTATE.EDU]
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 3:00 PM
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We may be in dire need of reset on this discussion.
Is anybody else brave enough to weigh in? (or should I say scale in?)
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Part I: Spring-Scale operated in an equilibrium manner
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Part II: The use of a spring scale in a non-equilibrium manner
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I think it would be helpful to remember that we aren't using
the spring
scale to calculate k*x, we are using the spring scale to
measure some other
force that we are presumably putting in opposition to the
spring. This is
the whole purpose of using the spring scale to operationally
define forces!