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Re: Locomotive equilibrium photo



At 05:30 PM 4/4/02 -0500, you wrote:

If anyone is wondering what picture is being discussed, I have it posted for
a while at www.edinboro.edu/cwis/physics/train.html

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Subject: Re: Locomotive equilibrium photo


We liked that photo so much that we put it in University Physics (on page
8 of the latest editions). Its photo credit is "ND-Viollet/Roger
Viollet/Laisono Agency, Inc.

Our department liked it so much we have large a framed poster of it posted
in our physics department.


Tom Sandin
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Tom Walkiewicz wrote:

> Aaron: Although the mule picture is great I still like the picture of a
> locomotive that didn't stop in time and is seen resting at an angle
against
> a wall that it just crashed through. This is not as appropriate as the
mule
> for equilibrium, but it is comparable to the ladder resting against a wall
> problem. The picture is on the cover of John R. Taylor's 'An Introduction
> to Error Analysis', 1982, University Science Books, Mill Valley, CA. I'm
> not sure about copyright, but for individual use can't this be scanned and
> simply e-mailed to anyone interested?
>
> Tom Walkiewicz walkiewicz@edinboro.edu
> Dept. Physics
> Edinboro University
> Edinboro PA 16444



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