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On Dec 24, 2007, at 9:24 AM, Bob Sciamanda wrote:
. . .I still don't appreciate your sense of a "paradox" here.
Dear Bob,
1) What is the better word than paradox?
On one hand we know that the net force must be zero at a potential
minimum, on the other hand we know that the net force, G*M*m/r^2, is
not zero.
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