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Re: (dv/dt) terminology: opportunity for improvement

In a message dated 11/10/2002 3:18:36 PM Eastern Standard Time,
pojhome@SWBELL.NET writes:


action (the bringing about of an alteration) -- as in force equals mass
times action, unactioned reference frame, the action due to gravity.



Then Newton's third law in its commonly stated form (for every action there
is an equal and opposite reaction) would be incorrect.

Justin

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