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Joel Rauber
Department of Physics - SDSU
Joel.Rauber@sdstate.edu
605-688-4293
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Forum for Physics Educators
| [mailto:PHYS-L@list1.ucc.nau.edu] On Behalf Of Tony Wayne
| Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 1:28 PM
| To: PHYS-L@LISTS.NAU.EDU
| Subject: Area vector
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| Does any one know why the "area vector" for a surface is
| defined as being normal to the plane of the surface instead
| of parallel to the plane of the surface? -Tony = = = = = = =
| = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Tony Wayne twayne@albemarle.org
| http://physics.k12albemarle.org
|
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