Re: Car acceleration

[Larry Cartwright <exit60@CABLESPEED.COM>]

Well, Herb, that certainly is a creative (pun intended) interpretation
of m=F/a.  Perhaps it was a sense of the potential for such preposterous
abuse that caused the natural philosophers of Newton's time to largely
avoid the use of the Arabic mathematics "al-jabr wa'l muqabala" (a.k.a.
al-jabrwa or al-gebra).

Best wishes,

Larry

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Larry Cartwright   <exit60@cablespeed.com>
Retired (June 2001) Physics Teacher
Charlotte MI 48813 USA
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Herbert H Gottlieb wrote:
> I thought that this thread had petered out.
> However, at the risk of being called silly
> also, try this one out for size:
>
> According to Newton's second law,   f=ma
>
> Transposing,                        m=f/a
>
> Therefore, if you divide a force on a
> car by its acceleration after a stop sign
> you CREATE MORE MASS ??
>
> Herb Gottlieb from New York City
> (Where mass cannot be created as well as destroyed)