Re: [Phys-l] The Normal Force

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

thanks -- He supplied (his writing) some of the background for my disst.

bc

carmelo@pacific.net.sg wrote:

> Jeffrey Schnick wrote:
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>
> > I'm just looking for a slightly more complete explanation, at
> > the same level--one that might also account for why stepping onto the
> > surface of a pond is so much different when the water is in its liquid
> > state than it is when the water is in its solid state.
> >    
>
> Nobel laureate Pierre-Gilles de Gennes considered the classification scheme on states of matter too simplistic. There are many intermediate states between solid and liquid. De Gennes just passed away last Friday...
>
> Alphonsus
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