Re: 1/r^2, geometry, flux

[Brian Whatcott <betwys1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>]

At 11:14 AM 6/21/2004, you wrote:
> Hugh Haskell wrote:
> >
> > I was disabused of this geometrical idea early on in my college
> > career when it was pointed out to me that there are all sorts of
> > interactions that do *not* follow the inverse square law.
[Hugh]


> I don't claim that the geometric approach is the only valid
> approach, but it appears to be one of the valid approaches,
> not requiring any disabusing.  It has elegance and predictive
> power.
> [John D]

I found John's geometric justification of inverse square to
be illuminating.   It may not hit this way on all listeners,
and may only appeal to the relatively physics-naive, still
I value flashes of this kind.

Brian W


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